World-wide leisure travel slowed somewhat this year compared with the prior two years but still appears to have grown three-to-four percent above 2024’s travel record. At the same time, many travelers appear to have reoriented their focus on outdoors and nature-oriented destinations.
Last week’s summer solstice was more than a subtle reminder that half of 2025 is already in our rear-view mirrors. As we get older, pages on the calendar just seem to turn faster and faster reminding many of us that it’s time to travel while we still can.
It’s not even June yet and already 2024 has become another crazy-busy year for tourism, especially with more travelers seeking custom itineraries created exclusively for them.
Alaska is truly America’s last great frontier attracting nearly three million explorers, naturalists and tourists each year, with more than half of them arriving by cruise ship. Alaska’s majesty and vast wilderness areas can only be appreciated up close and in person.
We survived a crazy summer full of challenges for travelers, especially those headed to Europe, where major cities overflowed with tourists ...
I often think about “where to go next” when it comes to planning my personal travels. Like most people, I have nurtured a “bucket list” of destinations to visit while I still can. Recently, however, experiences during my travels have become more important to me than new destinations.
While the year won’t be new much longer, there’s still time to make your resolutions for the next 12 months and to consider your 2023 travel plans. Planning early is an effective way to ensure the best pricing and availability, while ...
When Christopher Columbus sailed along the east coast of a new land more than 500 years ago, he encountered natives adorned in gold and other jewelry and he dubbed the area “rich coast” – Costa Rica in Spanish. Today, Costa Rica’s riches and ecological diversity are ...
The massive influx of air travelers coupled with every aspect of air travel facing severe staffing shortages – too few planes, pilots, flight attendants, ground support staff and flight control crews – combined to create chaos ...
While international travel has experienced a steady recovery for fully-vaccinated travelers, the CDC announcement last week eliminating COVID tests for returning American travelers should boost leisure travel this year beyond levels not seen since 2019.
I always thought Mt. Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest peak soaring 19,341 feet through the clouds, was located in Kenya until we landed in Amboseli National Park. Stepping off the small plane, my first glimpse of the landscape was ...
Darkness was descending quickly upon us as we bounced our way across the rutted savannah, looking up into every tree and scouting the underbrush. We had spent most of two hours searching to no avail for a ...
