Drivers, start your engines. The 99th running of the iconic Indianapolis 500 roars to start Sunday, but the nation’s highways were already filling up Thursday for Memorial Day weekend. AAA starts counting travelers for the summer’s first holiday weekend on Thursday, and they expect 37.2 million people to attempt the great escape — travel 50 miles or more from …
Gone are the days when windsurfing, parasailing or zip-lining qualified as a unique vacation adventure. Today’s travelers are upping the ante and redefining what it means to live it up. Laura Powell, travel expert and writer for The Daily Suitcase, says the latest craze doesn’t involve jetting off to the most exotic locations — it’s all about collecting …
The inaugural Travel Media Awards will take place Monday 9 November 2015 at the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel, London NW1. The event has been created to celebrate excellence in travel media, journalism, broadcasting and photography in both the consumer and trade media, and will be judged by both senior travel industry figures alongside some of the UK’s leading …
For Cedric Reversade and his partner Paul Maxime Koskas of Unique Properties and Events, no request is too difficult – well, almost. “Two years ago, we had an American client who was getting married in Florence. After she arrived in her private jet, she wanted a horse-drawn carriage to meet her at the airport to take her to …
The summer season is kicking into high gear for much of the world, and that means sunshine, exposed toes, and the blissful sound of live music washing over open-air crowds. If you’re hoping to follow your ears to your next vacation destination, but haven’t yet found a festival that calls your name, we’ve got a list of some of our favorites to …
Some would argue that the need for a travel specialist (FKA a travel agent) has diminished in the digital era. But travel websites that promise to narrow the world seem to do just the opposite. And although there’s an app for nearly everything, there are still some experiences only a human can make happen. Because while you may now …
The Australian Aviation Fare Analysis issued by Flight Centre’s corporate travel arm, 4th Dimension Travel, and the CAPA Centre for Aviation, showed that domestic airfares bought for corporate travel rose by an average of 1.5 per cent in 2014 while tickets bought by retail or leisure channels rose by an average of 3.4 per cent. However, price changes …
Family travel is one of the most sought-after segments in the industry, but just as children grow and change, so does this key market. At the third annual Travel Media Showcase Family Travel Summit, held last month at the Iberostar Playa Mita Resort on Mexico’s Riviera Nayarit, trend analysts and media explored the issues that concern today’s family …
Not so long ago I was scheduled to fly on a budget European flight to Cyprus. I packed my bags and printed my boarding passes, but this time something was different. It was just a few weeks after the fatal crash of Germanwings flight 4U9525 that killed 150, including 16 children on a school trip. Suddenly, I didn’t know what …
AN IRISH CASTLE CELEBRATES GAY MARRIAGES Ireland’s voters approved gay marriage last week, and to celebrate, the 800-year-old Ashford Castle, a 350-acre, 82-room property in the countryside in County Mayo, has created a “Gay Castle Honeymoon” package welcoming the LGBT community. The offer includes two nights’ accommodation in a suite, an Irish breakfast, an archery lesson for two, a movie …