By David Yeskel In a continuing effort to ratchet up the quality of its onboard entertainment offerings, Carnival this year introduced the Carnival LIVE Concert Series, an initiative that appears to be paying dividends among the line’s core passenger base while also appealing to first-time cruisers.  While onboard Carnival Inspiration’s 4-day Baja Mexico cruise from […]

Coming to Chicago in January, the first glimpses of this next opus by Sir Richard Branson comes with a cascade of well-placed rumors: shampoo that smells like Beyonce’s hair; dryers that come with “beard” settings; chambers within chambers; stratospheric threadcounts and everything managed from the touch of an app.

Managed Travel 2.0 is quickly becoming a topic in board rooms and corporate travel departments these days as companies such as Uber and Airbnb dig in to the landscape of mainstream travel. For corporate travel managers, who control roughly half of the $292.3 billion travel industry in the United States today, the concept can be […]

Christmas at The Draycott in London: Bear Included Christmas in London is idyllic enough but with the opening of the highly-anticipated children’s movie Paddington, based on the Paddington Bear, it will be a special hit this year with families. The Draycott Hotel will be complementing this release with special Paddington Packages that will allow guests […]

        Wi-Fi on cruise ships has long been the topic of jokes, complaints and slow – often very slow and painful – drains on passenger wallets. And even slow and expensive Wi-Fi has been has been a treat until recently as ships suffered unsteady and high priced satellite communications to keep passengers […]