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Get Ready for a New Catch Phrase - Geotourism

Friday, July 20th, 2007 Posted in Making a difference, Travel adventures, Travel industry | 1 Comment »

What do you call it when people stay in locally owned guesthouses, spend money in local restaurants, and get beyond the basic tour bus sites? Most of us who have been around a bit would just call that "traveling," but ...

Travel Videos from Geobeats

Thursday, July 19th, 2007 Posted in General, Travel adventures, Travel industry | 3 Comments »

I've been wondering when someone would jump on the opportunity to gather travel videos with quality production and put them in one place. I just got wind of a site called Geobeats that looks promising. They are producing these in house, ...

Panama Travel Websites

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007 Posted in Cheap Latin America Travel, Destination reports, Travel adventures | 3 Comments »

I've been working on book called Traveler's Tool Kit: Mexico and Central America with Rob Sangster, author of the original Traveler's Tool Kit covering the whole kaboodle. One daunting task for each chapter was to separate the spammy websites out there ...

Panama’s Time to Shine?

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007 Posted in Destination reports, Travel adventures, Travel bargains, Vacation deals | 1 Comment »

For a lot of reasons, some travel destinations get all the visitors while others get ignored. Sometimes it's a lack of money for marketing, sometimes it's a clueless government that keeps shooting itself in the foot. Other times the place ...

Ayahuasca, Sankranthi, and Acrophobia

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 Posted in Leffel projects, Perceptive Travel, Travel adventures | 2 Comments »

If you know what all three of those words in the title mean, you're either a very smart person or you've just read the July issue of Perceptive Travel. Yeah, we're a few days late, but it's a holiday week for ...