By Lark Ellen Gould Call it hosp-pet-ality or call it Fido-friendly fall-out from the economic recession. Either way, dogs are here (and there) to stay if the proliferation of dog-friendly hotels and hotel programs is any indication. It’s not unusual to see business properties such as Hilton, Fairmont, Loews and Doubletree hanging pets welcome […]

If your head is buzzing with such terms as “Instagram,” “Pinterest,” “Klout” ratings, “Smithgrams” (your life in six words of less), and “RockMelt,” not to mention Foursquare, Facebook, and Twitter, worry not. You’re not alone. We feel your pain. Rambling through the world of Social Media is like trying to stand up on a wavy […]

By Lark Ellen Gould Where’s the beach? Mexico. Some 1,000 kilometers of it. But at this year’s 37th Tianguis Turistico held for the first time ever not in Acapulco, but in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico pulled out the stops for showcasing just what this country of fun in the sun can do for visitors. High on […]

Travel-Intel cruise guru Bill Becken interviews Torstein Hagen, CEO, Viking River Cruises, about today’s cruise market and its customers. How will the cruise industry, especially river cruising, address and service them? What will future customers look for in cruise products? Hagen gives answers to these questions and others.

Mexico travel deserves its own planet. The choices for resorts in Mexico are as varied as notes on a perfumer’s palette. But one Mexico travel experience deserves a space of its own, a golden distillation in a menagerie of sensual possibilities: Imanta Punta de Mita. A member of the Kurta-Ahlers collection of rarified hotels and […]

The economic recession may be bad for business but a new report by ASTA shows that travel agents are making more money now than they were before the markets fell. The number of agencies that made a profit in 2011 (55%) has surpassed 2007 levels (53%), indicating continued growth in the travel industry, ASTA’s 2012 […]

By Lark Ellen Gould Riviera Nayarit was barely a blip on the map a decade ago, but since that time, the 200 mile stretch of pristine Pacific coastline just north of Puerto Vallarta has sprung into a corridor of all-inclusives at the bottom end, a pocket of mucho-exclusives edging north and a sprinkling of precious […]

It’s a rare moment in film when the lead actor has to compete with a destination for star credits. But The Hunter, which debuts nationally this week, presents the leading performances in just that manner. While leading man Willem Dafoe gives a restrained and powerful presentation as a lone tracker out to find the mythical […]

If you are an average airline passenger, the middle seat is not looking so bad these days. That is because it is a seat – on an airplane that is flying to the place you hope to go. That does not mean you will get there as expected, at the time you wanted, in a […]