World Travel Guide

An travel guide providing unbiased hotel reviews, destination guides, cruise reviews, flight information and much more.This is a guest post from Jen Miner, blogger at The Vacation Gals, and organizer of the 2012 Mom Blogger Camp in in Velas Vallarta. Mention the phrase “mommy blogger” to a crowd, and you’ll get a few different reactions. What some people view as a viable way to

An travel guide providing unbiased hotel reviews, destination guides, cruise reviews, flight information and much more.I started this blog on February 10, 2006 at the recommendation of journalist friend and tech expert Dwight Silverman;  I was retiring from the Navy and planning to be a writer, and he said, “If you’re going to be a writer, you need to have a blog.” Hmmm, well alrighty,

Online Traveling Journal with Free Advice and Guides on Travel, Hotels, Bed and Breakfast, Lodging and more. Articles and tips on travel and travel accommodations.A gaggle of some of my dearest travel blogging friends run a dynamite fundraiser every year – it’s called Passports with Purpose and oh by the way, the BootsnAll Travel Network (which hosts this blog) is a Platinum PwP sponsor. So what’s with the “build a village”

Research destination guides, get inspirational world travel guide recommendations, see photos, videos, trip plans, and more here.If you’re planning a family trip to the Gulf coast beaches, don’t assume that they are all an oily mess from the BP oil spill.  Here are 6 reasons to visit the Gulf Coast now, in case you were wondering, and the Traveling Mamas have a post on October Gulf Coast travel

Research destination guides, get inspirational world travel guide recommendations, see photos, videos, trip plans, and more here.Way back in 2006, I wrote a post on this blog entitled “Why the bleep would I want to go there?”
In it, I wrote about taking the kids to visit places that seem crummy, but really aren’t, and how you can’t have an opinion about seemingly crummy places unless

Online Traveling Journal with Free Advice and Guides on Travel, Hotels, Bed and Breakfast, Lodging and more. Articles and tips on travel and travel accommodations.Most bloggers like to keep up with their blog’s statistics and analytics, to see how we’re doing over time with our readers.
I’m no exception, and I thought you might be interested in some of the data from the last six months about popular items on this blog.
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Online Traveling Journal with Free Advice and Guides on Travel, Hotels, Bed and Breakfast, Lodging and more. Articles and tips on travel and travel accommodations.In my tourism training hat, people often ask me about the utility of location-based services like Gowalla and Foursquare.
Here’s an example of why they’re so handy….
I was speaking in Houston at the TFEA (Texas Festivals and Events Association) annual conference,

Providing up to date information on Travel guides and guidebooks, Travel advice, tips and destination information to give you the best possible ideas.I just finished a post over on my Sheila’s Guide to the Good Stuff blog, about why tourism organizations might want to hold off using one of those neat pocket video cameras that shoot in HD (high definition) unless they have access to some rather sophisticated editing software

Providing up to date information on Travel guides and guidebooks, Travel advice, tips and destination information to give you the best possible ideas.Things will be a bit quiet around the ol’ blog for a few days while I’m getting ready for/participating in/recovering from the tech conference madness that is “Geek Spring Break” at Austin’s South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) – here’s my report

Providing up to date information on Travel guides and guidebooks, Travel advice, tips and destination information to give you the best possible ideas.As suspected, not a lot of burning family travel news to come out of my time at the South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) tech conference last week, but here are two items of possible interest to parents….
***  The research work of Dr. danah boyd (yes, she spells it lowercase)