by Meredith Hill
Wednesday July 08, 2015

When I first got into travel, I did it for me. You could say it was a selfish move. I always had a passion for travel and I felt that building a business around my passion would allow me to travel more often. I also wanted to share what I knew with others, but that motive took a back seat to the number one motive of wanting to travel more often.

I dove into entrepreneurship with a naive sense that if I followed my passion, the business would follow. It didn’t. I couldn’t understand why it was so difficult to get enough good clients so I could make decent money to afford to travel as often as possible. I think I have it figured out.

It’s not…

Air Astana, the national carrier of Kazakhstan, is Central Asia’s premier airline. With hubs in Astana and Almaty, their network extends to Beijing, Bangkok, Hong Kong, New Delhi and Seoul, as well as European gateways, including Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London, Paris and Moscow. Air Astana is the proud winner of the Sky Trax award for the best inflight service to Central Asia and India for four consecutive years, from 2012-2015. It is one of the few…

Contrary to popular belief, your biggest problem may not involve your failure to communicate.

A few years back, the movie Cool Hand Luke starring Paul Newman identified a universal concern as it pertained to the business world. In a famous scene, the feisty prison warden directed his wrath toward Newman and said in a threatening tone. ”What we have here, is a failure to communicate”.

  — Travel Research Online
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