While the Zika virus, like the Ebola eruption a little over a year ago, is sending shock waves through the air waves, the travel industry is reporting little, if any, change in atmosphere from their clients. A leading travel network, the Travel Leaders Group, took the pulse of its agent membership to check the effect the […]

Cruise passengers are big lovers of chocolate. The proof is in the pudding – and the chocolate cake, and the chocolate soufflés, and the chocolate truffles. Consider this confection: Carnival Cruise Line alone buys more than 1.3 million pounds of chocolate each year. A half million of those pounds go into making the passenger-favorite Warm […]

A wedding in Italy can be a marriage blessed by the Tuscan sun if it’s a bountiful ceremony in the gardens of Relais La Corte dei Papi. As Valentine’s Day fades in the rearview mirror, spring weddings are just ahead and few weddings can be as romantic and saturating for the senses as a wedding […]

Most of us fly from one city to another just hoping to get to some target destination in one piece and with all possessions within a reasonable radius of our promised arrival time. But some of us, more experienced, perhaps, or just a little more adventurous and with a lot more time, travel to get […]

Cruising, as a vacation choice, is going nowhere but up, according to travel agents polled in a CLIA survey released last week. The Cruise Line Industry Association found the 2016 could be one of the strongest years in recent history for cruising – 83 percent of the agents predicted increases in cruise sales volumes this […]

This just in … tourist in Thailand gets trampled by elephant. In fact, this is a headline and a recent one at that as the beginning of February saw a Scottish tourist on holiday in Koh Samui riding an elephant in an elephant came in a must-do activity in Thailand that seemed safe enough. And […]

Valentine’s Day Adventure Travel Wish List With Valentine’s Day on the horizon, many of us have romance on the mind. If you are looking to rekindle flames or enchant your significant other with something extraordinary, consider these five romantic retreats. From “glamping” in the Colorado Rockies to touring Italy by bike or escaping to Robinson […]

Start-ups and tech giants have some big edges over today’s travel suppliers in their unceasing efforts to develop comprehensive, personalized solutions to customer pain points during the travel journey. A new report by Boston Consulting Group shows how innovation is restructuring the travel industry, and new solutions belong to those companies that collect data, manage […]

Just in time for 2016 vacation planning, Monograms – an international travel company and part of the Globus family of brands – has unveiled results from a new “Traveling Better” study spotlighting travelers’ views about the good ways (and not-so-good ways) to travel the world.  The nine-question survey of 1,168 world travelers sought to learn […]

Some of the top trends in Wellness for 2016 may have as much to do with technology as they do with rejuvenation. Fresh from the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2016 come no shortage of gizmos to track heart rate, steps, where you have been, where you are going and, of course, calories. And straight from […]