The first China Silk Road International Tourism Expo took place on September 19 at the Qujiang International Conference Center in Xi’an. It was presided over by Mr. Chen Qingliang, Deputy Director of the Shaanxi Provincial Tourism Administration, and Ms. Alla Peressolova, Program Manager, Fairs and Special Field Projects for the World Tourism Organization. Known as …
An international press trip to Italy’s Piedmont region took place on May 16-18 in Alba, the unofficial capitol of the area. Located at the northwestern-most tip of the country, Piedmont may be somewhat less well-known than Tuscany, its far more famous neighbor just to the south, but it is a stunningly beautiful area of the …
My visit to India last month took place under a set of somewhat frenzied circumstances—getting my passport in order, obtaining a visa (a word to the wise: start as soon as possible)—but as it turned out, the most critical factor in my trip turned out to be someone I had never met: a tour agent …
Stepping into the warm, inviting business class environment created by Air India, it’s easy enough to mistake where you are for the much smaller first class area of the plane. From the spicy red-orange carpets beneath your feet to the super-wide cognac-colored leather seats that await you, the atmosphere in AI’s business class is intimate …
The third international Goa Travel Mart took place in Goa, India on April 2-4, 2014 at the Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Stadium, Taleigao. The inauguration ceremony was presided over by His Excellency, Governor of Goa, Shri. Bharat Vir Wanchoo, as well as by Shri RK Srivastava, the principal secretary for tourism. A media briefing on …
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 …
The newly founded IcelandTravelWorkshop—an extremely well organized, casual and convivial meeting of travel professionals from both inside and outside the country—took place in Reykjavik on May 17. Coordinated by the team of Thora Gudmundsdottir, Thorunn Reynisdottir, and Guðný Pálsdóttir, the workshop featured a panel of travel luminaries, including Ólöf Yr Atladóttir, Director General of the …
Iceland, a country with a total population approximately a fifth the size of Manhattan, is a land of sumptuous beauty, ranging from bubbling craters and geysers so hot you don’t dare go near them (though there are many that visitors can watch from a distance of a few feet), to mountainous regions covered with snow …
San Mateo County, a gorgeous area of northern California, approximately an hour south of San Francisco, has a wide and beguiling variety of things to do, activities to experience and places to see—stunning golf courses, superb cuisine, delightful farms, and romantic wineries, all of which belie its rather dry reputation as a kind of techie …
Morocco’s 10th Tourism Convention took place in Marrakesh on Nov. 30, presided over by no less than King Mohammed VI himself, and with an audience of some 3,000 Moroccan and international tourism professionals in attendance. Yassir Znagui, Morocco’s Minister of Tourism and Artisans, presented the keynote address of the convention, entitled Vision 2020, with a …