How Travel Advisors Can Make an Impact on Responsible Travel

Two people in wheelchairs were left on the airport tarmac as their flight took off without them, The Washington Post reported.

Imagine waking up each morning to a view of the Tuscan countryside, making your home in the romantic Italian region known for its dry red wine, medieval architecture, and groves of olive trees.

Growing up in Rome, I've become accustomed to skirting the hundreds-thick crowds that form outside iconic monuments like the Colosseum and the Vatican Museums — the Eternal City is, after all, one of the most popular cities to visit in the world.

The second season of TV show The Bear found the characters more siloed on their own journeys outside the kitchen. One learned about hospitality at the real Chicago restaurant Ever, while another flew to Copenhagen to train with the best. Liza Colón-Zayas’ character Tina went to culinary school, but she wouldn’t have minded a more far-flung filming location for her character—and she knows just the place. “Well, the Berzattos are of Italian descent,” she says, referring to the central family of the show. “Pizza school in Italy!”

In the early 1870s, an émigré painter watched from a railway footbridge as a steam engine left a station on London’s suburban fringe. His name was Camille Pissarro and he was developing a style of plein-air painting that would soon be called “Impressionism.”

The best part of summer cruising is that there are more cruising options than in any other season. Cruises to destinations like Alaska and Scandinavia are highly seasonal; go in the summer, or you can't cruise there at all. Even the Mediterranean is somewhat seasonal, with most cruise lines leaning heavily into summer and moving ships to warmer destinations during the cooler months.

It has been nearly eight years since my three Welsh children have visited my family in the United States. Even though I would have loved to make the eight-hour plane trip with them more often, logistics, the pandemic, and cost have kept us away.

Another month, another story about a destination cracking down on the short-term rental market.

I don’t know about you, but every time I went on holiday as a kid, I heard endless myths about the impact of air travel. “Did you know that planes dump waste from the toilet mid-flight?” I remember someone telling me. “You lose a third of your tan on the flight home,” someone else warned—a particularly horrifying concept for my teenage self.

MIAMI BEACH -- Expansion, whether in terms of property count, amenities or geographic scope, emerged as a theme at this year's L.E/Miami trade show, where roughly 2,000 hoteliers, destination marketers, travel advisors and other industry professionals gathered.

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