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Haunted in America: Very Scary Places to Visit for Halloween

The popularity of haunted attractions continues to soar as a means to escape everyday routines, thwart real-life anxiety, and find selfie-worthy, action-filled experiences. Visitors don’t take this entertainment sitting down, the best haunted attractions keep things moving throughout their adrenaline-infused frights. These mega-haunts go well beyond the main haunt attraction. Business has expanded to include […]

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Going Solo: Dispatches from the Next Frontier of Travel

This author’s first experience of traveling solo was not an easy one. I had broken with a group I had been traveling with from Europe to East Africa and ended up in Somalia. I was a seasoned wanderer by then so the fist-sized spiders on my wall, the uncrushable flying cockroaches and ubiquitous biting ants […]

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Dark Tourism: Where to Find the Light of the Universe

Dark Tourism, a term more recently associated with quirky destinations associated with death and dying thanks to a trendy Netflix series, is now becoming popular with an unlikely fan base: families. That’s because the term is taken for its more literal locution as a place where light is at its slightest and dark skies full […]

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Luxury Travel to the Galapagos this Winter @Pikaia

To most people, luxury travel to the Galapagos Islands means spending a week in these remote islands on a large legacy cruise line and crowding in line with a battalion of cruise mates to get a distant look at a blue-footed booby. For those in the know, however, luxury travel to the Galapagos is best […]

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The A-List: 11 Bucket List Trips for 2018

Will this be a bucket list year for travel plans? 2017, a tough year for U.S. politics and upending developments popping onto the world stage, may have some relief in sight. 2018 is a new day and a new year and we believe it is one that will see a spike in bucket list trips. […]

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Mallorca: Stays with Shades of John Le Carré

It’s difficult to discuss Mallorca without calling in breathtaking vistas and cliff top castle keeps that played front and center in the 2016 BBC series of the John Le Carré thriller, “The Night Manager.” The island, the largest of the Belearic archipelago off the southeast coast of Spain, has long been a holiday haven for […]

Boom Times in Travel as Wanderers Find their Why

Will 2018 be a “boom” year for travel? That would be a yes if you are taking the opinion of the companies selling high dollar tours to travelling Americans. In their annual survey of travel forecasts and trends, tour operator members of the United States Tour Operators Association (USTOA) are reporting a strikingly positive outlook for […]

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Travel Most Desired; Roads Less Taken

What’s ahead for travel in 2018? A peek at Virtuoso’s 2018 Luxe Report shows there is no end to the hunger for unspoiled natural beauty and luxury immersion, experiential travel when it comes to the tastes of the traveling American public.

Travel Stocking Stuffers – Wrap ‘em Up

Santa in the Desert Imagine a Christmas Eve fantasy come to life, complete with holiday dinner served in-person by Santa’s merry elves, plus $2,000 in shopping mad money, a private movie screening just for friends and family, bedtime stories with cookies and milk presented by the elves, a private breakfast with Santa, a keepsake family […]

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