To anyone reading this (which granted is still possible since this will syndicate on RSS to facebook and eventually twitter), we’re retiring the PRIDE Travel blog. We’re also laying down digital tarp on our website pride.travel for renovation and overhaul which is why it hasn’t been updated either (sorry about the expired travel info!)
After one year of not posting ANY new blog entries, it’s more than overdue. Actually, since most our blog posts are quite Thorough (Monica Poling, online editor of TravelAge West magazine, please note the capital T), to say the least, they never were ‘bloggish’ but more online magazine and PR releases combined.
Today, I ran across the last posting on the blog of Carlo Alcos, the editor of Matador Network’s Brave New Traveler channel. He posted four months after inactivity to let his readers know that he’s moved on to bigger and better things, namely to edit BNT for Matador, and I was inspired.
So why the sudden halt on the blog and website? Primarily, we’ve been so focused in the travel agency on client business, and online in social media (our facebook page is still active and growing). We’ve also been traveling more. Most important: our lead writer (yours truly) and photographer (Nathan) have been publishing full-fledged travel articles like crazy. Take a peek at my online profile with NATJA -the North American Travel Journalist’s Association- for links to my work and you’ll see. Why, even today, my new article on Thailand’s northern cuisine and temple in Chiang Mai was just published by TravelAge West.
So, in the great tradition that mimicry is the best flattery, Carlo, with this post I salute you!
In contrast to trends observed and being released by Community Marketing, Inc. (CMI), PRIDE Travel sales to lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgendered (LGBT) leisure is up slightly for the year ending 2009 according to S. Nathan DePetris, its Chief Operations Officer and owner. “We have seen growth not only in the number of LGBT Leisure clients booking trips,” noted DePetris, “but also in the length of travel” Adding that although more clients were staying closer to home, those that are journeying afield are traveling farther and for longer, taking advantage of the economic downturn’s many values that have been injected into and became available as travel products this year.
he spectacularly serene Bo Seong green tea fields, and making his own Kimchi at the Nam Do folk food museum. In Seoul, just a few of the many facets sampled were tours and stays at world-class ultra luxury hotels and resorts such as the Grand Hyatt Seoul, the W Hotel Walker Hill, and the JW Marriott, with cultural visits to the Gyeong Bok Palace, Nanta show performance, TODES performance, and a cultural cuisine kaleidoscope experience at the Korean House center.
For the month of October 2009 PRIDE Travel will join thousands of cruise-selling travel agents in World’s Largest Cruise Night, an exciting event designed to showcase the incredible choice, diversity and value of cruise vacations. Travel agencies across North America will team up with 24 member lines of Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) to provide consumers with information on cruise vacations and exceptional offers.
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