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Monday February 23, 2015

 

Destinations

Cornwall travel guide
An insider's guide to Cornwall featuring the region's best hotels, restaurants, bars, shops, attractions and things to do, in destinations including Newquay, St Ives, Rock and…

Mauritius and La Réunion: Tropical twin peaks with a touch of pumice
'It's just a little stone," says the pilot, as our helicopter banks low over the hillside, its shadow beetling up towards the ramparts of the Cirque de Cilaos. "A little rock in the middle of the Indian…


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Tours and Activities

7 of the world's coolest commutes
Is there any struggle more universally dreaded than the daily commute? Not if you use one of these public transit…

Top 10 New York City Restaurants
To write a list about the ten best restaurants in New York City is to call upon yourself a certain sense of doom and gloom. For one, there are so many to wade through, and then to choose from - think for a moment of every small patisserie hidden down an alleyway to the sprawling dining rooms that stand guard over Central…


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Cruisers' choice: Best cruise ships of 2015
While Disneyland has long been known as the 'happiest place on earth,' Disney's cruise ships sound like they're also pretty cheerful spots to…

World cruises appeal to adventurers who are in it for the long haul
A growing segment of cruise passengers is taking world cruises or long cruises. Though a bit costly, they offer many…


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Transportation

Understanding Britain's trains: Life for new arrivals is not always easy
How to fill the time while waiting for a delayed train on the draughty platforms of Luton Airport Parkway, a railway station every bit as appealing as its name suggests? On Monday night, I found an answer: spend it trying to persuade a dozen newly arrived foreign visitors that everything the train operator is telling them is wrong, and that if they follow my advice they will arrive in central London much…

Airlines cancel 1,300 flights as yet another storm hits
Air travelers faced another day of headaches Monday, the third day in a row that at least 1,000 flights had been grounded across the…


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Lodging

10 Los Cabos, Mexico, area hotels and their reopening dates
Los Cabos, Mexico, was hit by Hurricane Odile in September. Here are some closed hotels' tentative reopening dates and…

Avalon Hotel, Gothenburg, Sweden: review
Avalon Hotel is a stylish Gothenburg hotel offering youthful interiors, cosy but minimalist rooms, exceptional Swedish cuisine, and fabulous views of the city from the rooftop swimming pool, near Kungsportsplatsen and Gothenburg Central…

Hotel des Dromonts, France: Modernist marvel goes upmarket
On first inspection, the Hôtel des Dromonts might not look like a listed building. The steeply angular, shingled structure resembles a flat-topped pyramid, its quirky planes matched by interior arches and sloping floors designed to maximise views of the surrounding…


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Other and Odd

A San Francisco Uber driver is making $200K a year selling jewelry out of his Camry
Gavin Escolar made over $200,000 last year shuttling Uber passengers and selling them him locally inspired…

You can now earn money for your online travel reviews
Two newish start-ups are threatening to rewrite two different travel models by offering payouts for your travel…


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Today in History

Guantánamo
On this day in 1903, the government of Cuba granted the United States a lease in perpetuity to Guantánamo…

Editorial Musings

Can't we all just get along

There is so much conflict in today's world. We operate, for the most part, in a very happy industry. You would think that we all could somehow get along.  I am not suggesting we all need to be BFFs with the competitor down the street, but how about some mutual respect for what each of us does.  There was a time when the only channel for travel purchases was...wait for it...the travel agent. You wanted to go somewhere and you called your travel agent.  I might go so far to say that because of travel agents, many suppliers have achieved the level of success that they have today.  And then there is this.

Disney Consumer Products (yes, that Disney) telling their 174,000 followers on twitter to…

  — Travel Research Online
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The 365 Guide

Fill A Need

The concept of “supply and demand” infers that if there is no need for your particular skill, product or service, there is little justification for your employment. If people (owners, managers, clients or prospects) don’t feel you provide value, then you are in for some bad news….. similar to the same bad news you read about everyday in your morning paper when it announces another 5000 jobs have been eliminated in an attempt to save the company.
  — Travel Research Online
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Publishers Corner

Tapping Into Walter Mitty

I admit to being one of the few people who liked The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty. The movie is a reminder of the importance of travel to the human psyche. Travel is not just a mechanical act of movement from one point to another. On occasion, it helps to be reminded of this small and obvious truth: travel is often an outward expression of something happening internally.

"We discover people are the same everywhere we travel. But we discover we are not." ~ e. dawson…

  — Travel Research Online
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One-to-One Interviews

Interview with Betsy Geiser, Vice President at UNIGLOBE Travel Center

Betsy’s travel career began in 1999 when she joined UNIGLOBE Travel USA as Franchise Sales Coordinator and Contract Administrator.  Since then, she has also worked in Industry Relations and Home-Based Agency Sales. In 2009, Betsy became Vice President of UNIGLOBE Travel Center, the home-based agency division of UNIGLOBE Travel USA.  She oversees all aspects of the hosting program and new agent recruitment. Betsy is the Vice President of the Professional Association of Travel hosts (PATH) and the President of her local ASTA…

  — Travel Research Online
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