Who do you trust for travel destination advice?

There is a lot of advice written by travel writers, holidaymakers, companies, bloggers. Sometimes I have to ask myself who do I trust when looking for advice on a specific destination. Wikipedia is a...

When is a hotel really green?

I like to consider myself environmentally aware and I try to “do the right thing” when I can. Travelling, of course, is an activity that often has a big carbon footprint and as travel consumers it’s...

Why Emotional Benefits Are the Key to Reader Response

We humans like to think of ourselves as rational creatures. Intellectual curiosity took us to the moon and back, beat smallpox and polio, and invented the Internet.
But when you come down to it,...

Let’s make visiting travel agencies more socialable

Today, for the first time in ages I visited a travel agency and it got me thinking about what I’d like to see in the shop – an area where I can sit down, buy a coffee or cold drink, and watch a short...

Travel consumers do not value travel agencies

I’m pretty confident that I am not the only consumer who does that.
Is the problem therefore that we don’t value the travel agents knowledge and experience anymore or is it a simple fact that we...