By Eric Goldring
Over the past years I have heard all the arguments for travel agencies charging service fees, which apparently 81% of travel agents now charge. The rational for these fees come down to three basic reasons: Travel agents should be compensated for his/her time; There are people that want to have
Mark Conroy and I have a history; and not a good one. It has been a few years and things may have changed, so I enter this new era at Silversea Cruises (or is it?) with an open mind and the hope of improvements. Mark ConroyNew Head of Silversea’s Miami
Skift describes itself as “The largest industry intelligence and marketing platform in travel, providing news, information, data and services to all sectors of the world’s largest industry.” My experience with Skift shows it is something far less than “intelligent”, though to be sure it is a “marketing platform”…for itself. Skift
Note: Immediately after originally posting this article, Dennis Schall, Skift News Editor, chose to engage in an infantile Twitter war with his first response being “@GoldringTravel nattering nabobs of negativism, not us.” and then, “@GoldringTravel I was just quoting you Spiro Agnew…” Obviously when a publication immediately goes to infantile
I am always skeptical of “sales”, but there really are legitimate, great value, sales going on with most cruise lines for closer in cruises. If you are looking to travel during February through June or if you are looking to take a cruise that might be beyond your travel budget
fathom Impact Travel invited me and my sixteen year old daughter to travel to the Dominican Republic last week to test out and critique some of its social impact programs that it will be offering on its cruises starting in April 2016. (It is also running a somewhat similar program,
The world is getting smaller. People are traveling more. More people are traveling. Cruise ships are getting larger and are fitted with more amenities. Travelers are becoming more sophisticated and experienced. Europe and the Caribbean are getting more “Been There. Done That!” even for many Millennials. Now what? Proboscis Monkey
Windstar Cruises can’t seem to get a break when it comes to the Star Pride. The Star Pride has a special place in my heart. She was my first Seabourn cruise; a three day sailing out of New York City. I have a shirt from her 1988 Inaugural Season hanging
As you probably know I am a very enthusiastic proponent of the new startup cruise/travel company fathom, which is owned by Carnival Corp. It’s operations consist of one cruise ship (the 684 passenger Adonia, which in its previous lives was an R-Ship and a P&O Ship) and various social impact
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