By Andrew Kardon Email, video conferencing and smartphones have all made it easier to plug into work no matter the time or location. But as much as technology has improved the workplace, in some ways it has also become productivity’s worst enemy. A simple email reply or status update on a company’s Facebook page can […]

By Lark Ellen Gould If you try to take the temperature of the travel industry these days you are probably going to come up with a number between Olympic sprinter and down with the flu. Reports saying travel is stronger than ever compete with items predicting its greatly exaggerated demise. But a recent survey conducted […]

By Lark Ellen Gould A recent survey from CheapCarRental.net has determined the top ten cities not to drive in if you have to rent a car there. The survey compared and ranked 50 destinations in the USA based on their car rental rates for the summer period spanning June to August 2012 and not surprisingly […]

    By Lark Ellen Gould When it comes to traveling through a lot of territory in a limited amount of time and for the maximum amount of value and care, escorted tours still rule the road. Tour offerings are becoming more and more inventive, spots visited that much more exotic, and the age range […]

  While a cozy country New England inn may be just the thing for a romantic autumn escape, what if that cozy stay could be in a cottage designed by Bill Gates’ personal architect? How about a romantic weekend with in-room masterpiece by Roy Lichtenstein, David Hockney or Frank Stella? Twin Farms is not your […]

  By Lark Ellen Gould Can your hotel room make you healthy? The MGM Grand Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas thinks it can. The sparkling emerald-hued resort at center Strip that offers the largest casino in Las Vegas has developed an antidote to Sin City for visitors who want to bypass the smoke-saturated slot […]

By Lark Ellen Gould While the Costa Concordia still sits submerged off the coast of Italy and Europe takes its share of economic hits from the slumped global economy, travel agents who have traditionally made their balance sheets add up in the wake of burgeoning cruise sales have had to take their licks as well. […]

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The take on the travel industry as gleaned from the recent American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA) conference in Los Angeles was as encouraging as anything the travel industry has heard so far this year: travel bookings are up from their recession lows – inching toward their 2007 levels, tours are moving away from on-the-bus […]

Despite wars, natural disasters, world economic recession, political upheaval and population unrest, people are still traveling and at greater numbers than ever. In fact, record 467 million tourists took to the road in the first half of 2012, and world tourism remains firmly on track to reach one billion travelers by the end of the […]