Truth be told, I did not like the idea of sleeping in a chicken coop. However, as I jumped over boulder after boulder in search of the gondola about to ditch me on an alp in Switzerland, this seemed like best option if I ended up stranded for the night. Sometimes...
I've noticed a phenomenon in airports that seems to occur frequently. Perfectly polite people enter the doors of the airport and leave their common courtesy behind. I realize the high level of frustration involved in every visit to the airport. However, when you have...
Are you on Team Local or Team Luxury? There are two competing ideas in tourism that attempt to dictate the way Americans travel. In one corner, Team Local is all about immersion. They say that the greatest reward of travel is to see how the locals live and to join...
Don't tell my favorite travel companion, but someday I want to be like Roy Sidlo. My favorite travel companion is my wife, Kim. Roy is a retired cinematographer from Chicago who travels on his own quite a bit. I met him on a Danube River cruise with Mayflower Tours in...
"I've been with the company for 25 years now, but I've never seen it change so much as it has in the past two years." When Tony Etienne, vice president of affinity market sales for Collette, made this statement to the delegates at the Select Traveler Conference in...
It's been a long time since I've switched on a hotel room television. Last spring, in anticipation of the birth of our daughter, Daisy, my wife and I made the difficult decision to discontinue our cable service at home. In its place, we began subscribing to Netflix...
If the taxi industry had innovated when it had the chance, it wouldn't be shaking in its boots over Uber. If you haven't heard of Uber yet, you soon will. This technology-based ride-sharing company enables people who need transportation to open an app on their...
If there were one thing about group travel that you could change, what would it be? Our industry is in the middle of an important transition period. Tour operators and travel suppliers understood the previous generation of travelers well and tailored group trips to...
The recent free fall of petroleum prices has reminded me that as a youngster, I would regularly walk from my family's suburban St. Louis home to a nearby discount service station (self-serve had yet to be invented) with a gallon can to get gasoline, so I could cut the...
It's mid-February, which means that most of us who made New Year's resolutions have already given up on them. I'm not here to make you feel guilty; instead, I'd like to offer an alternative set of resolutions that you can still achieve this year. Unless you're taking...
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