10 Places To Focus Your Eclipse Watching Skills
With today's total solar eclipse crossing America, interest in the universe is sky high. Since everyone in the United States can observe a partial to total eclipse...
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Summer Vacations At Disney World
There's magic in the air at the world's favorite themepark: Walt Disney World in Orlando and that magic, plus the aliens...
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Sunriver Resort, Sunriver, Oregon
With streams and mountains, bike paths, fairways, gourmet dining, spa and river rafting, the Sunriver Resort has something for everyone.
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The Heart of the Florida Panhandle
We love to discover kid-friendly resorts that keep up with our ever-changing needs as parents, which is why Florida’s Hilton Sandestin...
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What the Experts Forecast for Summer 2017 Travel
Summer travel is looking up, say the prognosticators at the 9th annual Leisure Travel Summit sponsored by Best Western Hotels. Each May, the Summit of travel industry experts follows...
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Delicious Ticino, Where Switzerland Meets Italy
Pair Swiss efficiency with an Italian lifestyle -- add mountains, countryside restaurants and alpine lakes -- and Ticino provides a stunningly scenic, gourmet vacation for families...
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Family Destination News from IPW
For Family Travel Forum, the IPW travel convention which brought together 6,300 buyers, sellers and media covering international travel to the United States, was an opportunity to understand the facts...
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Weekends Far Away In Abingdon, Virginia
How does Abingdon, Virginia make you feel both a thousand miles away and at home at the same time? Maybe it was the blind...
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Make It the Summer of Love Not War
The Bay Area around San Francisco is partying all year to the tune of #SummerofLove50, the 50th anniversary celebration of the counterculture’s meteoric rise to prominence in 1967. Like...
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The Travel #Ripoff – Legal Maybe, But Ethical?
This week, I found a $20.42 charge on my credit card bill from American Traffic Solution in Arizona. Wondering what in the world it was for, I called their phone operator and learned that on a recent...
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Snowsports In Lapland, Finland
Visit Rovaniemi, tour on snowmobiles, trek to Santa's Village, cruise on an icebreaker, and stay at a hotel made of ice, in Finland's Lapland. Friends heading to Florida for the...
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Virtual Reality Getting Real for Travelers
Since the 1990 release of "Total Recall," the Paul Verhoeven film starring Arnold Schwarznegger as a man who buys a virtual vacation to Mars, the travel industry has been anticipating the commercial development...
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Demanding? What Europeans Want From A Luxury Family Brand
The Martinhal Luxury Family Brand Event took place March 24, 2017 in a contemporary space at the Martinhal Cascais Lisbon resort, where floor-to-ceiling windows overlook a children’s...
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A Culinary Revolution in Colonial Virginia
There was a time not long ago when a family visit to Colonial Williamsburg meant living a, shall we say… dated lifestyle. Many parents, especially those with tweens and teens who bore...
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At Keystone Resort Kids Mean Business
Tucked high in the Rockies of Colorado, Keystone is a mountain resort -- and a self-proclaimed Kidtopia – designed to make sure kids have fun with winter activities. As the Vail-owned...
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Luxury Meets Utah Ski Resort At Snowbasin
Delivering full service and luxury amenities, high style Snowbasin in Ogden, Utah maintains a clubby, five-star hotel atmosphere which attracts a select crowd of snowsports devotees. ...
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Discover Great Theatre Off Off Broadway
Fans of Broadway dream about visiting New York to catch a live show in one of the 40 professional theatres located near Times Square and Lincoln Center. “In New York, we have tourists coming...
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Casa de Campo Muy Grande And Quite Grand Too
The fabulous Casa de Campo resort in La Romana, Dominican Republic, has extensive amenities and activities for multi-generational travelers. In fact, as my family discovered, there's...
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Grapevine, Texas, Where Old is New
Grapevine is the product of a thriving airport and an Aussie traveler, both of whom dreamed the small Dallas suburb could become bigger and better… and it has. The airport is Dallas/Fort Worth...
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Falling Peso Means Big Savings on Fall Trips to Mexico
In the last six months, the value of the Mexican peso against the U.S. dollar has decreased about 15%, making Mexico vacations more affordable than ever. New direct flights from Southwest have added...
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China Launches Action-Packed Adventure Park
Coinciding with the 2016 Year of China-U.S. Tourism, Discovery Communications has launched its first branded “outdoors” theme park in China. The Discovery Adventures Moganshan Park,...
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Milford Sound And Fiordland National Park
Fiordland on the South Island, one of New Zealand's most scenic regions and a UNESCO World Heritage site, is one of those bucket list destinations every family should...
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Joie de Vivre On A Family River Cruise
On a CroisiEurope river cruise through Germany our family experienced the joie de vivre of France’s prized lifestyle, while learning about German history....
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Star Trekking: Thomas Stays at the Hilton
In this month's celebrity travel column, we stalk Thomas the Tank Engine, the friendly blue train engine that could, and has, captivated the imaginations of every preschooler...
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Ahoy Matey! 10 Special Family-Friendly River Cruises
Cruise fans know that ships provide an effortless family vacation, a way to see the world without hauling suitcases or changing hotels. And while megaships accommodate adults and kids with a huge variety...
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Souvenir Shopping Savvy
Souvenir crazy? We are. With Americans spending $5 billion on souvenirs annually, we want to share shopping tips that should reduce your family’s chances of buying junk and maximize the odds of bringing...
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Florence, Oregon – A Sandlot Full Of Dune Buggy Fun
Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area in coastal southern Oregon provides active families buckets of fun -- in a unique setting of enormous sand dunes near the town of Florence. No matter how...
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10 Gifts For Fathers, Mothers & Travelers Who Have Everything
Frequent travelers will appreciate our selection of unusual presents – organized by parenting style -- whether it’s Mother’s Day, Father's Day or any other occasion. The...
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Kidzania Makes Play Out Of Work
Parents (practitioners of the helicopter style or otherwise), often fret about what their kids are going to turn out to “be” and how much influence they will have once they’re grown up. A...
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10 Best Family Destinations For Learning Vacations
I usually hate 10 Best Lists because when it comes to vacations, the “best” for each family is a subjective choice based on circumstance and timing. When my family is exhausted from work and school,...
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How Hotels Cater To Today’s Family Traveler
From crab hunts to organic toiletries and vegan menus, hotels are catering to children like never before. The substantial growth in the family market, particularly in multigenerational travel, makes hotel...
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Themed Itineraries Add Spice To Cruises
When my family boarded Royal Caribbean’s Freedom of the Seas for a Caribbean cruise with dozens of passengers wearing black leather and chains, we didn’t yet realize that 1,850 shipmates...
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Tiny Travelers Go To Disney World
They may not be old enough to beg to go, but chances are that your babies and toddlers will appreciate and learn from a Disney World family vacation. Whether sharing the spotlight with...
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Sharing, Giving Back, and Making Memories with an Impact
There’s something about Spring as a season of renewal that makes us think about the sustainability of travel, and how long we can enjoy the planet as we do without pausing to give something back....
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On Tour with Zappos, or Lessons in Zapponian Life
On a recent escape to Las Vegas, we found the brightest lights not along the Strip, but at the downtown headquarters of Zappos.com, the successful online department store which moved...
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Acadia National Park, Maine’s Best Idea
One of the few national parks near the Atlantic Ocean, and the oldest one east of Mississippi River, Acadia National Park is comprised of several islands off the coast of Maine and a few small towns....
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Toronto, Ontario Canada Attractions
Toronto is Ontario's cultural center, a sophisticated city whose global perspective thrills foodies, fans of fine art, and families with kids of any age. If there is one word that defines Toronto, it's...
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Utah’s Brian Head Resort
Brian Head, Utah is a family-oriented mountain resort which offers first-class alpine skiing, a terrific...
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The New Disneyland Resort
Disneyland Resort in Anaheim has long been my pick for that very first theme park vacation with little ones, because of its manageable size and laid back California vibe. You don't need a car or a shuttle...
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Beautiful Downtown Burbank, Where Movies Live
Johnny Carson always opened "The Tonight Show" with Greetings from beautiful downtown Burbank! because his show was taped in this sleepy, southern California city dominated by the aerospace...
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My Family’s Aegean Odyssey, A Cruise To Antiquity
"This is cool," said our son quietly, as he glanced around, dropping the magazines he'd borrowed from the library of the MV Aegean Odyssey. We were sailing along the coast of Montenegro,...
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Dark Tourism and Light in India
It wasn’t until I had traversed the street running past Mumbai’s main CST rail station three times, that I realized I was seeing the same people over and over; a woman hanging dohtis out...
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Motel 6 is Back and Better than Ever
At a recent press conference hosted by G6 Hospitality LLC, the corporate entity managing the economy hotel brands Motel 6, Studio 6, Motel 6 (pronounced Seis) and Estudio 6, we had a chance to learn...
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5 Multigenerational Vacation Ideas You Can Afford
Multigenerational travel in all combinations is already enjoyed by 42% of American travelers according to MMGY Global, who are...
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Holland America Lines Up Smart Partners At Sea
At a recent press conference held at New York’s Explorers Club, Orlando Ashford, the new president of Holland America Line, remarked how...
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Bus Tours to Stardom in Bollywood
Producing an average of 1,200 feature films per year, Mumbai, India hosts the world’s largest film industry -– some say its most popular one, too -- under the Bollywood...
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Exploring Global Travel Themes at MITM Mumbai
In September 2015, Maharashtra hosted MITM, a travel and tourism expo that not only showed off the best assets of Mumbai and the central India state, but also showcased many other destinations...
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How Travel Brings Social Good to El Salvador
Michael Jackson’s song, "Man in the Mirror," a retro anthem of the social activist movement, is playing as I disembark my Avianca flight in Sal Salvador. I am here because El Salvador, almost as big...
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Sustain and Develop: India Tourism
Tourism is big business according to the UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), accounting for about one-third of total world trade in services. It’s also important at the global policy level, because...
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