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Destinations
What Makes Egypt One of the World's Top Tourist Destinations?
Egypt is one of the most popular travel destinations in the world. It attracted more than 9 million visitors in 2018, and its most successful year was in 2010 when 15 million made the trip there. Tourism is a hugely important contributor to the economy in the country, and visitors are well catered for.…
— Feast Magazine
Top 5 Beach Vacations Without Quarantines For Americans This Winter
This is going to be one long winter and more than ever, cabin fever due to the pandemic is bound to drive most of us crazy. Americans looking to get away and escape the cold can take solace in knowing that many tropical destinations have reopened for tourism to U.S…
— Travel Off Path
Tours and Activities
Restless Americans map out road trips despite misgivings
Americans are flying less, and it looks like their vacation plans are still up in the air. Nearly 7 out of 10 who want to take a vacation by year-end aren’t sure they’ll actually be able to travel, and 1 in 5 expect to book at the last minute, within a week of…
— CNBC
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Cruise
Wednesday Protests Scheduled at Major U.S. Cruise Ports
As part of a push to resume cruise operations in the United States, a number of American ports are expecting protests on Wednesday in an effort to…
— Cruise Industry News
Royal Caribbean Cruise Line Trademarks "Tracelet" Wearable Wristband
Royal Caribbean International has filed a trademark application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for a new device to be called "Tracelet." The application, which describes the service mark registration for Tracelet as "Rubber or silicone wristbands in the nature of a bracelet," was filed on October 15, 2020 under the subcategory of "cruise ship…
— CruiseCritic.com
Transportation
Singapore Airlines resumes world's longest direct flight from New York City
Singapore Airlines will be bringing back its direct flight between New York City and Singapore starting on Nov.…
— Fox Travel News
More Studies Circulate Information on COVID-19 Spread Aboard Aircraft
Conflicting opinions are once again front-and-center in the debate over mask usage on aircraft. A study by the U.S. Department of Defense and United Airlines says face covering usage is the best way to ensure safe travels, while an American infectious disease specialist says a previous set of studies have “bad math” attached to…
— flyertalk
Lodging
The world's best hotel bars (and what to drink there)
Hotel bars are the fast track to opulence. When your wallet says no to spending hundreds of dollars on a bed for the night, the price of an Old-Fashioned will let you sail past the uniformed doorman, glide through a marble-clad lobby and sink into a leather armchair beside an open fire.…
— CNN
A third of US hotels could disappear: report
A third of hotels in the U.S. could go under due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new study. Some 33% of hotel owners expect to hand the keys back to their lender or enter a forced sale situation, according to a September 7 survey of 103 hotels by the Hospitality Asset Managers Association…
— Yahoo! Finance
Other and Odd
Change for the better? How travel might look after the pandemic
Some prognosticated changes to the travel industry have already come to pass. Airfare change fees are disappearing across many airlines (albeit mostly for domestic, non-basic-economy fares alone), and airlines got serious about keeping their aircraft surfaces and air clean, introducing new protocols that are unlikely to disappear even after the virus is under…
— Market Watch
The Most Popular Travel Days for the Holidays in 2020
While the travel industry is certainly rebounding from its lowest point during the pandemic, there’s no doubt that travel is very, very different now than it was during pre-COVID times. The number of passengers flying daily in the United States is…
— Travel+Leisure
Today in History
The Straits of Magellan
On October 21, 1519, a small fleet of Spanish ships led by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan arrived at 52 degrees south, seeking to round South America in its quest for a western passage to the Spice Islands of Indonesia. The 373 mile passage was arduous, and one of Magellan's ships deserted and returned to Spain. On November 28th, the three remaining ships entered a new body of water which Magellen named the "Mar Pacifico" or the Pacific Ocean. The passageway through the islands of the extreme tip of South America are known today as the Straits of…
— Travel Research Online
Motivationally Speaking...
Persist Until You Succeed
by Stuart Cohen
Wednesday October 21, 2020
“… it i s not given to me to know how many steps are necessary in order to reach my goal. Failure I may still encounter at the thousandth step, yet success hides behind the next bend in the road. Never will I know how close it lies unless I turn the corner.” - Og Mandino, The Greatest Salesman in the…
— Travel Research Online
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Mike’s 1-Minute Marketing Memos
Lessons from a Fabric Store
 You are probably wondering if Marchev has gone off the deep end? No, I haven’t. Not yet. I want to share an observation I once had in a fabric store of all places. My wife Barbara and I were strolling through a fabric store looking for ideas when the subject of today’s memo hit me.
After being in the store for just a few minutes, I felt a mild migraine coming on – and I don’t get migraines! I was being introduced to the Three C’s: Choices, colors, and the associated cost. I must admit there was a lot of good-looking “stuff” in that store. In fact, my eyes started to glaze over at the myriad of styles, fabrics, and colors began to overwhelm me. Apparently choices, options,…
— Travel Research Online
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