Maui hit new visitor records in 2016 and it is not surprising. With so many first rate hotels and resorts and those long lingering strands of white sand beaches, Maui Visitors and Convention Bureau executive director Sherry Duong, is calling it real enough but also unbelievable.

The Online Travel Market is here to stay and growing at a speedy clip. Recent analyses by Allied Market Research show that online travel agencies and online direct booking to suppliers is paced to grow to $1.1 billion by 2022 when looking at purchases of transportation, accommodations and vacation packages. Not surprisingly, the Asia-Pacific region […]

  Whether it’s the post-holiday blues, the winter season blahs or the burn for spring break, most of us are ready for a warm weather vacation. But, at CES 2017, much of that “anywhere but here” drive saw unexpected solution in a barrage of Virtual Reality gadgets that may begin to define what travel becomes […]

Sweden has its seasons and visiting Sweden through the dark and festive winter months should not be overlooked. Christmas in Sweden can be magical, and made into that much more of a storybook journey with a stay at Ett Hem in Stockholm. This elegant mansion in the fashionable Ostermalm district of Stockholm was built in […]

  By Susan Shapiro, ctc Recently I had the opportunity to cruise the Rhine River onboard Uniworld’s riverboat, the Antoinette. Like so many of you, I’ve been on lots of cruises, ocean and river.   I knew my travel agent friends would expect me to tell them what I thought about the experience. So for all […]

Swiss Vacation Package for Chocolate Lovers “Chocolate bliss,” that exquisite moment where a cacao bean expresses its finest creamy dark essence, is an elusive experience for the chocolate lover. But moments like these are loaded into the itinerary of a new culinary adventure: Tour de Chocolat.

  You know what you can’t take on a plane, but did you know what you can take on a plane? At an airport conference in Los Angeles a few years back, an airport commissioner spoke authoritatively, if not a little haltingly, about the one item that gets confiscated most by TSA officers at LAX […]

  Looking for something different, dazzling, maybe a bit daring? Virtuoso, the global network of luxury travel agencies, has released the 2017 Best of the Best directory, featuring its exclusive collection of hotels and new experiential itineraries. Here are the top trends and insights gleaned from the effort with some very spot-on recommendations.

Airports are aging – fast – and as traffic through these gateways is fast outpacing their design capacities, overall traveler satisfaction with these facitilies does not seem to be eroding even if the structures are. The North America Airport Satisfaction study released last month by J.D. Power gives the airport experience a solid “B” or […]