After we're done taking that last bag of trash from a wonderful Thanksgiving meal is a perfect time to clean up our travel businesses. Kids are back in school, and the holiday stress is kicking in. Who has time to think about planning a vacation? It’s the nature of the travel industry. Don't waste this time; clean up!

Now is the best time to organize your travel house, including the marketing and financial aspects. Without a solid plan, how can you expect to make money? Take advantage of the slower times to clean up and tidy your agency's marketing and financial plans. Evaluate preferred suppliers, adjust them as needed, and allocate your advertising budget wisely. Unearth those ever-elusive co-op funds. And in the spirit of cleaning,…

While I am a proponent of the thoughtful use of “artificial intelligence” (AI), I understand and fully appreciate the concerns many have voiced regarding the training of AI on existing creative works. Critics of AI often raise charges of plagiarism and copyright violation because of the way in which AI integrates existing text, graphics, and art into its generative efforts.

All current AI is derivative, trained to re-arrange the materials of the real world into new and sometimes surprising patterns. The process is not unlike that used by human researchers who review and study current events, processes, models, and creative works in any given discipline to understand the status quo better and then create new works. The legal…

Today’s message introduces two reminders that I feel are extremely important.  The first one reminds us of the Law of Attraction while the second reminds us of how to use just three questions to position strangers for future interaction. Let’s look at one at a time.

I remember the day like it was yesterday, when I first found myself attracted to a member of the opposite sex. And it wasn’t my idea.

If my memory serves me correctly, I was around ten years old when I experienced my first “crush.”  A very interesting series of events unfolded as soon as I heard that somebody thought I was a cool dude. I remember immediately returning the feeling. “If Mary liked me, then I liked Mary.” Not knowing it…