Holiday Travel Season: Best Booking Tips
The hectic holiday travel season is practically within spitting distance. For travelers looking to avoid the long lines and packed planes, here is one top tip: don’t travel the week before Thanksgiving. Concur, a travel and expense management firm that represents some 57 percent of the world’s business travel, analyzed historical data to find…
Traveling During the Time of Trump
U.S. travelers rarely head out to a foreign destination, legitimate visa in hand, concerned about what might happen to them at the airport when they land. But that is exactly what happened to this writer last week. I thought I was heading off to Istanbul on a long-ago scheduled press trip to meet executives at […]
Faena Miami Beach: New Depth to Design Hotels
The word “Faena,” heard most emphatically in neighborhoods fanning from the blinding white sands lining Miami Beach, could be another term for fantastical, improbable. It stems from one unstoppable Alan Faena, co-creator of the new Faena Hotel Miami Beach and the energy behind the increasingly famous Faena District Miami. READ MORE […]
Activating the Activacation: Fab Fitness Stays
Younger travelers are swapping beaches and beers for action-packed, celebrity-inspired fitness getaways, often with the goal of shooting “welfies” – workout selfies from very cool places. A Hotels.com Activacations Survey shows a whopping 80 percent of 18-35 year olds now consider keeping fit one of the most important parts of their holiday experience, compared to only […]
Colorado Romance: 10 High Altitude Hotels
It’s possible to get high on more than marijuana in Colorado. Love is in the air in any season in Colorado with its fantasstical settings, mountaintop accommodations, gorgeous views, outstanding adventures and blissful ski days that lead to wildly romantic evenings. Where to go? Whether for honeymoons, revows or remarrying moons or just a perfect […]
Hong Kong the Easy Way
Visitors traveling on Cathay Pacific Airways to Hong Kong for three nights or more will have their choice of four compelling sightseeing tours, as part of a new collaboration campaign between the Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB), Cathay Pacific and local tourism partners. The complimentary tours ranging from a day-long, open-top bus ride to a […]
Best, Worst North American Airports? The Hit List
The thought of boarding a plane sends most would-be passengers into dizzying dilemmas of anticipated discomfort as they gage personal tolerance tiers for pain and claustrophobia. Airports, however, are something else entirely. In fact U.S. airports these days are getting high marks from those who use them. Orlando, John Wayne Orange County, and Sacramento are getting […]
Halloween 2017: Who’s Got Ghosts?
If there is anything America loves on Halloween it’s a good ghost story – and better yet, a good ghost. While sightings are not always guaranteed, Halloween 2017 offers plenty of scary places where ghosts may or may not show up on the night they are purported to be most active. What these places do […]
Sweet Bocas: Luxury Villa in Panama … with Perks
A luxury villa for a vacation in Panama can be a daunting gem to find and may mean digging up a lot of rough dirt before finding your piece of gold. There are lists of B & Bs and home rentals in Panama but taking a chance on a weeklong vacation rental in Central America […]
Gay L.A.: Best Spots for LGBTQ
Los Angeles has long been a magnet for gay and lesbian dreamers seeking fortune and bliss in Southern California climes. But the movie industry town churned by leading men clutching their leading ladies tight around Barbie Doll waste lines required certain secrecy where sex preferences were concerned.
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