Forbes Traveler has come up with a list of their 2008 list of 400 of the worlds best hotels and resorts, based on seven criterias including service, room & bathroom, decor, food & beverage, pu...
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Heres Part 1. This is a study of all the official state tourism websites, where were looking at the presence (or lack thereof) of green initiatives and information. In part 2, well be looking at the n...
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The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has come up with a brand new interactive travel widget which provides a trip countdown timer and weather at the traveler’s destination and reminds the user...
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Theres a lot of talk about rewarding third-world destinations which are showing significant committment towards environment conservation and sustainable tourism. But change begins at home, so how abo...
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You know the financial crisis is real bad when hackers start feeling the heat. Seems theyre venturing out of their comfort zones (mamas basement/Pentagon computers) and turning their evil hexaediting ...
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I was looking for some good romantic hotels, and I bumped into this article which says that the Moroccan inspired Korakia Pensione in Palm Springs, CA is probably Americas sexiest hotel, and as evide...
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The Proximity hotel and Print Works Bistro (www.proximityhotel.com/) in Greensboro, NC has become the first ever hotel and restaurant to be awarded LEED Platinum certification by the U.S. Green Buildi...
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More than a thousand Magellanic penguins have washed up ashore on Brazilian beaches, which is about 2000 miles away from their home in Patagonia. By the time the penguins reached land, some of them as...
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A short time back, I wrote about how AIG almost pulled the rug out from under the travel industry. Well, it seems theyre now doing all they can to make it up. AIG executives apparently spent $440,000 ...
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On October 4th, 200 brides entered the Hard Rock Hotel in San Diegos Gaslamp Quarter, but came out as 100 married couples. The event, San Diegos largest mass same sex wedding todate, was organized joi...
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Time to press the panic button. In a market economy, what really hurts big corporates is the stock value. The travel industry was already reeling under a blitz of airline failures, rising fuel costs a...
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The ten day IUCN World Conservation Congress in Barcelona got off to a rocking start today with the announcement of the Global Sustainable Tourism Criteria (GSTC). GSTC is a new criteria based on thou...
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So the economys heading south, and this no time to splurge on a costly vacation. Does that mean you need to stay at home and close your eyes to take a vacation? Or maybe Treasury Secretary Hank Pauls...
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Priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN) has teamed up with Zagat Survey, LLC to produce a series of travel guides. The first in the series, a travel guide for Las Vegas vacations, features content provided to Pr...
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Theres hope yet for all thats free and wonderful on the internet. Cities and counties all over the U.S. have been going hammer and tong at online hotel booking websites for some time now, trying to co...
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Perfect example of marketing which is too good for its own good. Regular readers of this blog will remember last months post about the $19.28 promotion from The Leading Hotels of the World (www.lhw.co...
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An intelligent restaurant menu, a room that cleans itself and automatically adjusts the lighting and music and everything else based on your bio-rythm, a DNA based global and unique identification sys...
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Gizmodo has a list of gadgets for cheap hotels, which from the looks of it, will leave you more well armed to fight off pesky germs than a fully equipped HHS scientist. Includes things like the HYSO D...
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Im sure theres a lot of truly fucked up hotels across the world vying for the title of the worlds worst hotel, but if I had to nominate a candidate on behalf of the U.S., that would be the Holiday Inn...
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Next time you feel like arguing with fellow guests about who gets to use the common-use computers at San Diego hotels, you might want to remember this story. A 49 year old woman and a 23 year old man ...
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