At the onset of the pandemic, we decided to broaden our popular national travel radio show, now heard on over 430+ stations across the USA as well as separately via live streaming and archived podcasts online, creating a fun new segment that links travel and food experiences. Our “Travel The World From Your Own Kitchen” […]
COVID-19 has forced many companies to re-evaluate how they conduct public business domestically and internationally. From small towns to whole countries, the social atmosphere has changed how we interact. At the same time, it has disrupted business travel plans throughout the year and well into 2021. While business travel has significantly slowed down, some business […]
If you don’t know how to pack light, be prepared to pay for the privilege of checking the luggage you need to accommodate your clothes and other essentials. According to a recent CNBC story, travelers paid $4.6 billion in checked bag fees in 2017 alone. In other words, if you wanted to take a large […]
Ah, the hotel bed. Sometimes it’s a real crap shoot as to whether you find a comfortable bed like you’ve got at home, or something that should be outlawed by the Geneva Convention. If you don’t sleep well while you’re traveling, it may not just be that you’re away from home. It may be that […]
Traveling for work can be considered a perk — in fact, many people often look for jobs with it — but for some it becomes a drain on productivity which can lose that high momentum normally happening at the office. Between traveling to the airport, sitting at the gate, and sitting on the tarmac, productivity […]
A version of this article was previously published on our Atlantic Luggage blog. If you live in a small town or city, and you’re traveling to a big city like Las Vegas, Washington DC, Chicago, or New York City for a vacation or a business trip, it’s a bit tricky navigating your way around. I […]
A version of this article was previously published on our Atlantic Luggage blog. A new vacation trend we’ve been hearing about is the micro-cation, and it’s ideal for people who want to travel, but not take the one- or two-week excursions we used to. A micro-cation is more or less a weekend-long trip, but it […]
We’ve been in pandemic mode for over a year, and many people have stayed home, changing the pace of their lives. And while staying home has kept us safe, everyone is dealing with a serious case of cabin fever. It’s one thing to have cabin fever after a tough winter, which many of our northern […]
Several weeks ago, we wrote about how one of the dirtiest places in the airport is the check-in kiosk at the front of the airport. Thousands of fingers poke at the screen every day, and no one cleans it off. Compare that to the airport bathrooms, which are cleaned hourly. In other words, the airport […]
Ah, to be young and able to travel anywhere, eat anywhere, sleep anywhere at any time. We recently found an article by travel writer Evie Carick, who listed several ways she was able to make her travel dollars go further. While it may not be ideal for the seasoned executive who’s accustomed to traveling business […]