North of Turkey, south of Russia, and bordering the Caspian sea,three countries lie steeped in ancient cultural and religious history, each with its own unique and entirely separate identity. Still evolving in the post-Soviet era, they are neighbors who share borders, still reveling in their relatively new independence, and increasingly developing markets to attract more …
I’m sitting on the sun deck of the charming riverboat, Bengal Ganga, chartered for an inspection trip by the rapidly expanding riverboat company, Haimark. Based in Breckenridge, Colorado, Tom Markwell and Marcus Leskovar, both former executives with Pandaw River Cruises and Giang Hoang Hai, an experienced ground operator in Southeast Asia, have partnered to launch …
SATA Airlines, Portugal’s second largest airline after TAP and one of the few that still offers commissions to travel agents, recently announced it will increase service from North America to the Azores to support recent and projected growth in tourism to the nine-island chain located 900 miles west of Portugal. Direct flights from Boston to …
Having served as a way station for seafaring vessels since Portuguese explorers stumbled upon its shores in the fifteenth century and as a refueling stop for trans-Atlantic air traffic, the Azores, a chain of nine islands 900 miles west of Portugal, today is becoming ever more of a vacation and business meeting destination for North …