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Destinations
How to Have the Perfect Honeymoon in Greece
When it’s time to plan for a honeymoon, there are plenty of places to travel to celebrate your newlywed status. And many of those options are cliché — Hawaii, Paris, or the Carribean are often the go-to options. Nothing is wrong with taking the standard route — it is your trip to plan, after all, and you should go where you want. But if Greece isn't already on your short list, you'll want to add it.…
— Travel+Leisure
Power Restored, But Questions Remain Following Massive Blackout In Manhattan
Power has been restored but many questions remain following the massive blackout that plunged the West Side of Manhattan into darkness. Con Edison still doesn’t know what caused the outage, and commuters may be feeling the effects this morning at Port Authority. The air conditioning still isn’t fully working, so people should prepare for warmer than usual temperatures inside the…
— CBS New York
Tours and Activities
The Met's Blockbuster Moon Exhibit Shows How Much The Apollo Missions Exposed About Life On Earth
When John Glenn navigated the Mercury-Atlas 6 into orbit, becoming the first American to pilot a spacecraft around Earth, his payload included a point-and-shoot camera he picked up at a drugstore in Florida. At the time, NASA engineers viewed photography as a distraction, and astronauts had to sneak snapshots with equipment stashed in their personal belongings. The profound impact…
— Forbes
There's a reason the pastry in Paris is so darn good
In honor of Bastille Day, we'd like to take a moment to celebrate one of France's greatest contributions to the world -- its pastries. There's no point in traveling to France without sampling the pastry. In fact, one might as well gobble macarons, éclairs and opera cake slices morning, noon and night. The country's pastry chefs are arguably the world's best, and they've been whipping up treats…
— CNN
10 of the best restaurants in Brittany, France
The region is famous for its crêpes, cider and fresh seafood, which can be enjoyed everywhere from oyster markets to fine bistros overlooking the sea. Oyster lovers should try them freshly caught at Cancale’s beachside market. The town, which is not far from Saint-Malo, is the oyster capital of Brittany and a number of blue- and white-striped stalls run by local fishermen sell different sizes and…
— The Guardian
Cruise
The 10 best large cruise ships for people who love food
Royal Caribbean Cruises has better food than any other company that operates large cruise ships, according to the cruise website CruiseCritic. The website ranks cruise ships in a number of categories based on reviews from its users. For the "best dining" category, Royal Caribbean International and Celebrity Cruises — which are both owned by Royal Caribbean Cruises— accounted for nine of…
— Business Insider
New Orleans and Mobile Cruise Ports Reopen Following Tropical Storm Barry
After briefly reaching category 1 hurricane status as it made landfall, Barry has been downgraded to a tropical storm and continues to move inland. Currently located about 50 miles south-southwest of Shreveport, Louisiana, the storm is moving north-northwest at 9 miles per hour, bringing heavy rain and maximum sustained winds of 40 mph. Cruises in the area have been affected, but the ports of…
— CruiseCritic.com
Transportation
American Airlines extends cancellation timeline for Boeing 737 Max to November
American Airlines announced on Sunday it will be extending cancellations of the Boeing 737 Max from its flight schedule through November 2 — much longer than expected. The Boeing 737 Max has been grounded worldwide since March. The Boeing 737 was grounded worldwide following the deadly crashes of Lion Air Flight 610 in October and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 in March. Boeing…
— CBS News
This Canadian airport sheltered 7,000 people on 9/11
Craggy cliffs and verdant forestry, flat expanses of countryside that merge into choppy cobalt waters -- and you're as likely to spot a moose as you are another person. Welcome to Gander in Newfoundland, Canada. It's an unlikely location for an international airport, but the northeastern tip of this rocky Canadian isle is one of the world's most significant aviation destinations. From here, British…
— CNN
Lodging
Hilton Plays Catch-Up in Luxury-Travel Market
Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. HLT -0.47% plans to open more luxury hotels globally this year as it tries to catch up to its competitors in the growing luxury-travel market. Major hotel brands such as Hilton are expanding their luxury hotel offerings, which range in cost from a few hundred dollars a night to thousands of dollars, to lure business travelers, loyalty members and the wealthy, particularly those…
— The Wall Street Journal
The Best Hotels in Shanghai
Shanghai is positively heaving with excellent hotels. There are stately veterans like The Portman Ritz-Carlton, open more than two decades, and trendy newcomers like Shanghai Edition. Some, like the Jing’an Shangri-La are huge, with more than 500 rooms, while the intimate Capella has just 55 villas. So visitors to Shanghai are clearly spoiled for choice: You can stay on the Bund and take in…
— Forbes
Other and Odd
Planning to travel while on Medicare? Make sure you have coverage at your destination
Basic Medicare, which includes Part A (hospital coverage) and Part B (outpatient care), generally does not cover any medical costs outside of the U.S. and its territories. Some Advantage Plans will cover emergency services overseas, and some Medigap plans — which can only be paired with basic Medicare — also offer protection. While travel medical insurance can be the solution to plugging holes…
— CNBC
The Best Trips for Introverts, According to Introverts
I recently went on a trip to Los Angeles with a friend, and after just one day and night together my voice was starting to give out. We were talking constantly: in the car ride on the way there, as we walked around the Getty Museum, as we went out to dinner and drinks, as we went for a run together the next morning. It was a wonderful experience to take in a new place with a friend and get to know…
— Travel+Leisure
3 Black Travel Bloggers Explain How To Deal With Micro-Aggressions Abroad
Travelling abroad should be a wholly transformative experience, and one from which you return fully rejuvenated and totally refreshed. But depending on where you go, travelling as a woman of colour can sometimes produce awkward or deeply distressing racial encounters. Travel to countries or places where black women are few and far between means that at best, the hushed whispers…
— Bustle
Today in History
The Rosetta Stone
In the summer of 1799, soldiers in Napoleon Bonaparte's army in the Nile Delta were demolishing a wall to increase the area of an existing fort. Clearing away debris and overgrowth, one of the soldiers spotted an unusual stone used in the wall's construction. On the slab was an inscription. As a team of scientists…
— Travel Research Online
Editorial Musings
Did you pay your Errors & Omissions premium yet?
by John Frenaye
Monday July 15, 2019
It cannot be sa id enough—you need to make sure you are insured! You would not drive a car without insurance. Hopefully you are able to afford health insurance. And you better make sure you have business insurance as well as a separate errors and omissions policy. Why? Well that can be told in two simple words...
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— Travel Research Online
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One-to-One Interviews
Arthur Salus, CEO, Costa Rica Dream Adventures
 Arthur Salus entered the travel business when he opened Duluth Travel Incorporated in 1993.
Duluth Travel is a service-disabled veteran owned business and one of the top three full-service travel agencies in Atlanta, Georgia. Duluth Travel provides government, corporate, leisure, and incentive travel.
Arthur Salus is known in the local and national media as the “The Travel Master” bringing his insight into today’s travel…
— Travel Research Online
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Publishers Corner
How you got here and how to get there
by Richard Earls
Sunday July 14, 2019
Taking a lead f rom Mike Marchev, I have lately been spending more time than usual reading business books. Books by business leaders are not historically my first choice of reading material, but recently I have found my prejudice to be misplaced.
I am just now finishing What Got You Here Won't Get You There - How Successful People Become Even More Successful by Marshal Goldsmith. The author drew my attention as a "business coach" who reportedly charges CEO's and upper managers $250,000 for his efforts on their behalf.
Goldsmith indicates the very skills which make someone a great entrepreneur, a brilliant engineer, or a very successful (fill in the blank) may also be the very characteristics holding them back from…
— Travel Research Online
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Mike's Morning Missives
BORING Is A Four Letter Word
 I never thought I would be saying this!
Much has happened since we last spoke: My Scottish friends have come to America for the fifteenth year in a row, and have returned to their wet, yet beautiful, weather. My wife has had another birthday, yet still looks like a high school graduate. I have conducted speeches in five new cities and I have ridden a zip line high over a beach in the Caribbean.
And yet, just the other day I heard myself say, “Mike, you are beginning to bore…
— Travel Research Online
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