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Destinations
Mexico’s New Tourism Frontier: Exploring South of Tulum
The decision to develop Cancun as a Mexico tourism beach destination was famously determined by computer in the late 1960s. Cancun became a huge success and inspired further development south along Mexico’s Caribbean coast. First, there was the Riviera Maya, which was conceived as a nature-based…
— USA Today
The French Island in the Middle of the Indian Ocean You Have to Visit
Take a succulent lobster and add a vanilla sauce and you have a crime passionnel against French cuisine. Other more classical Gallic flavour combinations like duck a l’orange were on the menu at Auberge du Rond-Point, a white tablecloth bistro in Mamoudzou town. But as the signature dish of the 101st…
— The Independent
Tours and Activities
Virtuoso Advisors Choose Nine Must-Do Travel Experiences In 2019 -- Total Solar Eclipse To Deep Dive
If you're making travel resolutions for the new year, consider these specific, often surprising suggestions from travel experts who specialize in the best and most interesting experiences the world can offer. The 2019 Virtuoso® Luxe Report tapped into its elite force of 17,500 travel advisors from around the world to…
— Forbes
How National Parks and Museums Are Affected by the Shutdown
With much of the federal government closed because of the budget standoff, museums are shuttered, tour guides are unavailable and trash is piling up. For the last month, Marci T. House has had the perfect plan for the first week of the year: She would spend it in Washington’s museums and galleries, with her wife…
— New York Times
Cruise
Carnival Cruise Line Eliminating Free Room Service Starting Mid-January
Travelers who love hitting the high seas with Carnival Cruise Line will be paying more for their vacation in 2019 after the company announced room service would no longer be complimentary on every ship in its fleet. According to the official website of the cruise line, Carnival will be switching to an a la carte…
— Fox Travel News
Cruise Line Drops Warning About Crime In Nassau
After talks with the Bahamian government, Royal Caribbean is dropping the warning it had been issuing passengers regarding crimes in Nassau. Instead, a more generic advisory will be printed in the cruise line’s daily…
— Cruise Radio
Transportation
The World's Safest Airline Revealed
It's not something most avid travelers think about, but knowing you're in reliable hands when flying from one side of the world to the other is always a plus. Which is why it's worth a glance at the annual AirlineRatings.com list naming the world's safest airlines -- and discovering which one is rated the…
— CNN
10 Stopover Programs You Should Try
Instead of spending all day in an airport waiting for your connecting flight, take advantage of these airlines' stopover programs, which let you spend up to ten days exploring a new city, with no additional cost of airfare. (Some offer vacation packages, discounted hotel stays, and complimentary city tours, too.) From Toronto to Dubai, happy…
— Conde Nast Traveler
Lodging
Amazing Underwater Hotel Suite Lets Guests Sleep With the Fishes
Life under the sea just got a huge boost in visibility thanks to the opening of The Muraka at Conrad Maldives Rangali Island. The residence, which features an underwater suite in addition to lavish overwater bedrooms and living areas, is a first of its kind in the open ocean. Guests have the entire resort at their…
— USA Today
Here is Where Airbnb Travellers are Staying 2019
Around the world, guests have spoken: bite size escapes, outdoor immersions and off the grid adventures await in some of Airbnb’s extraordinary trending Homes available on Airbnb in 2019. Whether it be completely unplugging in a shepherd’s hut in the English countryside, or eloping to a seaside, design-centric cycladic house…
— IOL Business Report
Other and Odd
All the Far-Flung Places Where Celebrities Welcomed 2019
The week between Christmas and New Years is one of the busiest travel weeks of the year—especially for the jet-setting celebrity crowd. They flocked to the sun, the snow, and in case of Karlie Kloss and Joshua Kushner, the South African savannah. “Found my tribe,” Kloss joked in her caption of a photo of…
— Vogue
On Location: 2019 Film Releases to Inspire Your Travels
A live-action remake of Aladdin, directed by Guy Ritchie, comes to the big screen next year, with Mena Massoud as Aladdin and Will Smith as the Genie. It is set in the fictional kingdom of Agrabah, and was filmed in Wadi Rum in Jordan, where the protected desert landscape, sandstone and basalt…
— The Guardian
Today in History
The March of Dimes
In the early part of the 20th century, polio killed or paralyzed thousands of Americans. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, himself a victim, founded the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis on January 3, 1938. Better known as the March of Dimes, the Foundation raised money for polio research and treatment for victims…
— Travel Research Online
Mike's Morning Missives
People Need To Talk (GOPT)
 Today is message #2 for 2019 and just like yesterday’s kick-off message, this one will be painfully obvious.
I was sitting at home one Sunday afternoon not long ago when I spotted a man approaching my front door. I live on top of a hill and we don’t get much company stopping by. The first thing I spotted was his orange hat…a hunter.
In an instant, I recognized this man as my cousin Richie on my mother’s side. I had not seen Richie in years and I was very glad to see him. 60 years ago, the two of us spent hours playing in the fields and in the nearby woods herding cows and climbing trees. Riche still hunts and this explained why he was in the…
— Travel Research Online
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