Last year, I interviewed Cory Lee, a wheelchair bound traveler, about his experience seeing the world. I’m a firm believer that travel is possible for people from all walks of life, so when I stumbled across Cory’s website, I knew…
Today starts the fourth week of Daily Getaways — an assortment of daily discounts and deals with various travel brands and loyalty programs, sponsored by the US Travel Association.Missed our previous posts? Here’s a list of offers that are still…
While most airline and hotel programs are in committed relationships with a single banking partner, Hilton has long offered credit cards through both Citi and Amex that earn Hilton HHonors points. In addition, there are other credit cards that you…
The conflict between hospitality brands and the online travel agencies that sell their products is in full bloom as we head into the summer of 2016, and it will only get more ferocious as the year progresses.We said as much…
It may not be as mysterious as the Amex Centurion Card, but the invite-only United elite status known as Global Services is still shrouded in a fair amount of secrecy. What is clear is that it takes some serious spending…
AT least 93 percent of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef suffers from coral bleaching, a new discovery by ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies found.“We’ve never seen anything like this scale of bleaching before. In the northern Great Barrier…
A RECENT study has revealed that a large percentage of business travelers and travel managers were concerned about traveling to a region where they might not feel safe.According to the study by Association of Corporate Travel Executives (ACTE) and Business…
IF you ever make it down to California, it’s worth plotting a stop in San Diego, the land of sunny resorts, lively beaches, and towering palm trees. The city is not short of upscale resorts and hotels, most of which…
TRIPS to Burma begin in Yangon, but they culminate in Bagan. Its highlights can be summed up in a word: temples. Thousands of them date back centuries or more, and this is one of those places tourists would talk about…
1. Making dolmas and spanakopita with Athens Cooking Classes2. Meteora’s stone pillars rising from the Thessaly Plain I passed a variety of landscapes driving north from Athens to Meteora. Craggy hills gave way to gentle valleys leading to the Thessaly…
