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Destinations
Bucket List Travel: The Top 50 Places In The World
What's on your travel bucket list? If you're like most people, the more you travel, the more places you add to your bucket list. So when the editors of the website Big 7 Travel announced the list of the world's top 50 bucket list destinations, we stopped in our tracks and started checking off the boxes. The website surveyed its 1.5 million-strong social audience in order to determine…
— Forbes
These are the least safest Southeast Asian cities to travel and live in
If you regularly backpack, this report by The Economist would pique your curiosity. The weekly magazine recently released its Safe Cities Index for 2019 and unsurprisingly, Tokyo sits at the top followed by Singapore, Osaka, Amsterdam, and Sydney. Singapore ranks the top for infrastructure and personal security. It's number 2 for digital security and at the 8th spot for health. But…
— Mashable
Tours and Activities
A glimpse behind the scenes of Giza's Grand Egyptian Museum
In the vast, shade-dappled atrium of Egypt’s new Grand Egyptian Museum, construction work surrounded a colossal statue of Ramses II, his left foot striding forward and fists clenched in readiness. Staff welcoming visiting journalists doled out assurances that the towering ancient sculpture was safe from the ongoing building works. On its journey to the new museum last year,…
— The Guardian
In search of the Rolling Stones's London haunts
As the crow flies, it isn’t too far from the bedsit squalor of Edith Grove, SW10, to the leafy Cheyne Walk of Chelsea, SW3. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards accomplished the journey in a little over five years. In the early Sixties, London proved to be a magnet for R&B-crazy teenagers. And the moving force behind the Rolling Stones gravitated towards the capital. While celebrated…
— Telegraph (London)
Cruise
Cruise Lines Pledge Millions in Aid to the Bahamas
Cruise lines, including Royal Caribbean and Carnival Cruise Line, have pledged millions in aid to the Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian tore through the Northern Bahamian Islands earlier this week. From Carnival Cruise Line to Royal Caribbean to Disney, here are what cruise lines are donating towards relief and recovery efforts in the Bahamas. The Walt Disney Company, led by…
— Cruise Fever
After Hurricane Dorian, cruise lines’ private islands in the Bahamas suffer limited damage
As Hurricane Dorian ended its assault over the Bahamas, the cruise lines began working Tuesday to assess the damage to their private islands in the region. Disney Cruise Line’s Castaway Cay was the closest cruise line private island to Elbow Cay in the northern Bahamas, where Dorian tore through as a monster Category 5 hurricane — the strongest to ever strike the…
— Orlando Sentinel
Transportation
Hurricane Dorian travel: Nearly 800 Wednesday flights canceled; Charleston airport to close
Travelers should brace for another round of heavy flight cancellations Wednesday and potentially for the rest of the week as Hurricane Dorian trudges its way up the East Coast. Airlines already have canceled nearly 800 Wednesday flights into, out of and within the United States, according to flight tracker FlightAware, and the total is likely to grow. That is on top of more than…
— USA Today
Holiday Travel May Get More Expensive, Thanks to the Boeing 737 Max Grounding
This year's peak holiday travel season—from Thanksgiving through Christmas—might just be messier than usual. That's because of the additional delays to the return of the Boeing 737 Max, which U.S. airlines were predicting to return in early November, and a scramble for carriers to reroute and rebook passengers on impacted flights. Two major domestic airlines recently pushed…
— Conde Nast Traveler
Travel disruption as entire Tube line suspended
Passengers are facing travel disruption after an entire London Underground line was suspended due to a signal systems failure at the main control centre. One commuter tweeted that he "hated the Northern Line", which was suspended just before 06:00 BST. The Tube line connects transport hubs Waterloo, King's Cross and Euston and is used by more than 800,000 people every…
— BBC
Lodging
What's the Difference Between Hostels and Hotels?
There's only one letter's difference, but make no mistake—hotels and hostels are very different travel experiences! There are so many things to consider when choosing a place to stay on your next vacation. It needs to be within your price range and a reasonable distance from your desired travel activities, plus you need to look out for these signs you’re staying at a bad hotel.…
— Reader's Digest
The NoMad Hotel: New York’s Most Magical Hotel
I’ve stayed twice in the past year at the NoMad Hotel in New York City, once as a guest of the property and once incognito as a paying coatomer. Both times I was impressed. There are a lot of hotels in a lot of different styles and price points in New York, but the NoMad is pretty one of a kind, which is hard to do in such a crowded market (You can read some other recent stories…
— Forbes
Other and Odd
Why Polish people hate rules
When the Nazis started closing in on my Jewish grandfather during World War Two, he made a fateful decision: he fled from Ukraine to Warsaw, where no-one knew him and it would be easier for him to disappear. When he arrived in the Polish capital, the first thing he saw was a woman selling bread at Central Station, right under a poster threatening death for doing so. In…
— BBC
Millennials Love Sabbaticals--Here's How To Save For Yours
In mid-August, Natalie Williams Diller, 30, and husband Mike Diller, 37, quit their jobs in the U.S. for a new life in the Italian countryside. The pair, with nothing but two suitcases and a few duffel bags, headed to Europe to live and work underneath a chef for 73 days. After that, they will exhaust the remaining 17 days of their European Union tourist visas in Croatia, or maybe…
— Forbes
Today in History
The Murder of Mary Ann Nichols
Charles Cross, a market stall operator, was the first to discover the body of Mary Ann Nichols lying on the ground on what is now Durward Street in the Whitechapel area of London, near the London Hospital. She had been last seen alive walking the Whitechapel Road in a new bonnet, one she…
— Travel Research Online
Press Releases of Interest
Central Holidays Unveils “A Year of Traveling our Top Destinations” Guide
Moonachie, NJ – (September 3, 2019) – Central Holidays is pleased to unveil its new guide, “A Year of Traveling our Top Destinations”, presented with the expert knowledge and insider insight of the award-winning travel brand's destinations specialists. This useful guide features vacations exclusively…
— Travel Research Online
Mike's Morning Missives
Marketing Mistake #2: You Don’t Know Why Your Customers Buy
 This is mistake #2 of 15. They all may appear obvious at first, but I want you to give each one some thought. They will all serve as a valuable reminder.
Let’s use an example to “drive” today’s mistake home.
If I asked you what attributes you look for when shopping for an automobile, you would give me your personal buying criteria on the matter. These are your feelings as they relate to you – specifically. If I asked someone else what it is they look for when shopping for a car, chances are they would give me an entirely new set of…
— Travel Research Online
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Motivationally Speaking...
Is Loyalty a Thing of the Past?
by Stuart Cohen
Wednesday September 04, 2019
Losing sleep wo ndering why your best customer hasn’t answered your emails or phone calls? Shocked to learn they left you for a competitor? “After all these years, how could they do this to me?”, you ponder. “What nerve! I always gave them my all.”
What if your all wasn’t good enough? “At the very least they owe me a courtesy call”, you insist.
What makes you think they owe you anything at all? “I knew something was up. It had been a while since I’d heard from…
— Travel Research Online
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Destination Bariloche (presented by INPROTUR)
Tuesday, September 10, 2019 at 1 pm EDT/10 am PDT
San Carlos de Bariloche (commonly known as Bariloche), is a town in the Argentina’s Patagonia region. Bariloche is an all-season destination for all travelers, offering great skiing during the winter months as well trekking, climbing, etc. in the summer.
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