February 14, 2012
This is less about places I’ve been than places I may never reach – but we all need to dream, sometimes. The Egyptian deserts forming the backdrop for the movie The English Patient (okay, they made the movie in Tunisia) are as inhospitable and as fascinating as anywhere in the Sahara or the Arabian deserts. [...]
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February 1, 2012
Travel marketing is one of the most interconnected and exponential industries in the world. However, it is often asked how smaller destinations can compete against “the giants” in the new electronic world of travel and tourism? Well to some extent these “niche” destinations can compete quite well on an increasingly “smarter” playing field. And herein [...]
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January 29, 2012
Honest, officer, I’m a big boy now. I can do it all by myself… but the Tourist Police officer seemed less certain, as he walked me to the public toilet in Cairo’s bustling Khan el-Khalili quarter and positioned himself outside the cubicle. Khan el Khalili quarter, Cairo Foreign governments urge us to ‘reconsider your need’ [...]
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January 17, 2012
By Bob Fisher, The Philosophical Traveller Religion has always played a critical role in the history and heritage of many nations. This is particularly true of Québec, the predominantly French-speaking province of Canada. St. André de Montréal When Pope Benedict XVI officially approved bestowing sainthood on a simple carpenter from Montréal on February 19, 2010, [...]
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January 9, 2012
Much is said about the rise of Social Media. Never before in history have so many people written (or blogged or twittered or in-your-facebooked) so much about so little. But how much has this detracted from real communication with your next-door neighbour, or the person sitting opposite you on the train?
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December 25, 2011
Engineering and travel go hand in hand … See also … The Concentric Worlds of Travel and Engineering
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December 22, 2011
At the age of 14, Ponheary Ly died and came back to life. At least, that’s how she describes it. The year was 1977, and the Khmer Rouge was on its deadly rampage in Cambodia. After seeing her father killed, along with 13 other family members, Ly was on the run and in hiding when [...]
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December 21, 2011
Here’s a website promoting itself as a “social networking travel site”: They say: “Want to share your amazing travel experiences with friends and fellow travelers more easily? Now you can! Come join me on whereRyou.com today. See you there. ” They also have a page linking to a number of travel blogs, some of [...]
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December 7, 2011
This is a guest post for TRAVEL BLOGGERS GIVE BACK, a unified movement of bloggers giving back by posting stories about their favorite charity organizations. Join us on Facebook, and please help spread the word! Lurching along the dirt road, I gaze out the window at the town of Cuttack in northeastern India as the car bounces over [...]
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November 24, 2011
Meaningfulness News organizations frequently emphasize the importance of investigative reporting, stressing the principle that in order for a story to be “newsworthy” it must be current and it must mean something to people. It goes without saying that responsible news gathering also results in stories that are informative, accurate, and in the best interests of the general public. And [...]
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November 12, 2011
Volunteer videographers around the world shot footage Friday 1/11/11 for the second “One Day On Earth” documentary, which aims to capture the world in moving pictures. One Day On Earth is an entirely crowdsourced project. Anyone, anywhere in the world can join. Its website, at the center of the operation, has many social layers — [...]
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November 12, 2011
The Amazon rainforest, Vietnam’s Halong Bay and Argentina’s Iguazu Falls are among the new seven wonders of nature, according to organisers of a global poll. The other four crowned the world’s natural wonders are South Korea’s Jeju Island, Indonesia’s Komodo, the Philippines’ Puerto Princesa Underground River and South Africa’s Table Mountain, said the New7Wonders foundation, [...]
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