Jordan and her magnificent attractions are high on most traveler’s bucket lists, including mine! Here’s a sponsored guest post that explains why you might want to consider a tour when visiting Jordan. The country of Jordan is one of the most popular Middle Eastern countries for international travellers to visit. Although it is surrounded by [...]

Panama is on the Hottest Destinations List for 2012 for the New York Times, Travel & Leisure and National Geographic Traveler. So when Laurie Carr, who blogs at Elements of Decor, told me she went there for her New Year’s holiday, I was very excited to hear all about it and gain some insight as [...]

Winter is the time for fireside dreaming – and planning your next dream holiday, perhaps to somewhere much warmer and sunnier this time next year. Don’t just leave it to the last minute to see what villas are left in the busiest week of August, or what cheap flight deals may or may not turn [...]

How do you get a big-time hospitality CEO to repair an air conditioner (with his own hands), scrape paint off the ceiling, work the booking center and man the front desk? Put him on the CBS reality show “Undercover Boss,” in which the boss poses as a trainee who’s new to the field. Stephen J. [...]

The predictions for what will be the hottest destinations of 2012 are out! Conde Nast Traveller and the Travel Channel have each offered us 10 prospective hotspots, Travel & Leisure has given us 12, National Geographic Traveler has given us 16 and the New York Times has named a whopping 45 potential locales. There’s a [...]

Most Christmas trees are cleared out by New Year’s Day, so I was pleasantly surprised to see that Sarasota’s Ca D’Zan, the mansion where America’s most famous circus family lived, was still decked out for the holidays this week. And why not? The 36,000-sq-foot Venetian palace, which sits on the Sarasota Bay as if it [...]