Following the positive response to AmaWaterways’ inaugural Soulful Experience in France this summer, the luxury river cruise line announced a new addition to the 2024 lineup of Soulful Experience river cruise and land packages celebrating Black history and culture along the rivers. Sailing though Portugal from November 13 to 23, 2024, the 10-nightEnticing DouroSoulful Experience encompasses a three-night pre-cruise land package in Lisbon before embarking on AmaDouro in Porto for a seven-night river cruise along the picturesque Douro River. In addition, AmaWaterways is excited to share that there is still limited availability on three other Soulful Experience cruise and land packages in 2024: the 10-nightColors of Provence Soulful Experiences  departing June 13 (includes three nights in Paris post-cruise) and June 17 (includes three nights in Paris pre-cruise) as well as the 11-night Secrets of Egypt & The Nile Soulful Experience starting on May 17 with a pre-cruise land package…

Brad Tolkin is a guy who watches the cycles in the travel industry, always on the lookout for those seismic moments that may rock the boat of success for his company and the travel advisors affiliated with it. His take on 2024 for travel advisors? “Buckle up and go get ‘em,” he says. “It’s going to be a busy year.”

Indeed, Tolkin told the 1,000 attendees at the Dream Vacations/CruiseOne annual conference last week, “today we are witnessing another tremendous seismic moment,” the result of “the tailwind the pandemic has left us, plus the ability to work from anywhere, and the acceptance of this from employers. And this genie is never going back into the bottle.”

Make no mistake, Tolkin is steering one big boat. Known among…