Aug 23rd, 2012 at 10:00AM:
It's 4 p.m. on a Sunday in mid-August. I'm standing in a Northern California bookstore surrounded by about 100 people ranging in age from 20 to 70, drinking champagne, downing brownies, and hugging and crying and laughing all at the same time. It's the fourth and final day of the annual Book Passage Travel Writers & Photographers Conference, and while the conference has officially ended, ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Book Passage 2012: How I Lost My Voice And Found My Vision
Aug 23rd, 2012 at 10:00AM:
It's 4 p.m. on a Sunday in mid-August. I'm standing in a Northern California bookstore surrounded by about 100 people ranging in age from 20 to 70, drinking champagne, downing brownies, and hugging and crying and laughing all at the same time. It's the fourth and final day of the annual Book Passage Travel Writers & Photographers Conference, and while the conference has officially ended, ...Travel Bloggers Unite: A Profile Of The Conference From Umbria, Italy
Jun 14th, 2012 at 4:00PM:
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Assisi, a small town in Umbria, Italy, stands about a mile south of the city center on a quiet country road. I walked here this morning on the gravel shoulder, declining to take the shuttle service in lieu of some exposure to nature. Now I sit on the back patio of this small resort that plays host to the Travel Bloggers Unite conference, quietly jetlagged with a ...Travel writers: You need what Book Passage offers
Aug 31st, 2011 at 10:00AM: The Book Passage Travel and Food Writers Conference had its 20th anniversary in August of this year. It was small, there were approximately 75 students. The conference is made of the usual stuff -- formal talks by travel writers and classes taught by food bloggers and panel discussions about social media and breakfasts made blurry by staying up too late the night before. Book Passage is expensive, ...Conference and Meeting Travel: Pack for the one-night trip
May 9th, 2011 at 2:00PM: One-day (or even one-evening) events can be fast and tiring, but it's usually worth pushing for a fast turnaround so you can get home sooner and be back in the office with less disruption. I just took a short-burn business trip two weeks ago to Boston, and I found that it sure beats planning for a few days on the road. For a trip that's few days long, I need to tote along a carry-on. For ...Conference and Meeting Travel: How the packing list is different
May 6th, 2011 at 2:00PM:
My bag looks different from usual on this trip. Convention travel, though not usually as productive as other forms of business travel, does bring with it the benefit of a lighter bag.
When I go on a regular business jaunt, I usually wind up having to overpack. The problem is that there is just too much happening, and none of it is related. On a normal business trip, usually to visit the IR ...Conference and Meeting Travel: Five ways it differs from other business travel
May 5th, 2011 at 2:00PM: As I write this, I'm en route to Chicago from New York, the first leg of a trip that will bring me to Vancouver where I'll be when this story runs. For the first time in a few years, I'm headed to a professional conference, and the preparation process, it has occurred to me, is different from other forms of business travel. From the packing list to the mindset, it's unlike the other business trips ...The Jesse James farm
Nov 24th, 2010 at 12:30PM:
Jesse James grew up both lucky and unlucky. His father, Baptist preacher Robert Sallee James, owned a prosperous farm in Clay County. His slaves cultivated hemp and other cash crops, and Jesse and his older siblings Frank and Susan grew up in comfort. Robert kept a large library and both his sons became avid readers. Frank loved Shakespeare, while Jesse was more devoted to the Bible and ...Dates for 2010 Travel Blog Exchange Announced
Oct 16th, 2009 at 5:30PM:
Last July, travel writers and bloggers from all over the world came together in Chicago for TBEX, the Travel Blog Exchange. It was a day to meet people in the industry, to learn from other writers and bloggers, and most of all, to start a conversation about the business of travel blogging.
Topics covered at the inaugural event included "Creating a a Lively and Successful Travel Blog", which ...Momentum around meeting cancellations
Apr 14th, 2009 at 6:00PM: Meetings and conventions aren't just falling ... they're actively being canceled. While it's easy to write this off as the erosion of a wasteful corporate perk, it translates to genuine financial crisis for the travel industry. Over the past six months, 402 conventions and meetings have been canceled in Las Vegas alone. According to the Las Vegas Convention & Visitors Authority, this ...Band on the Run: Igniting Change in Edmonton, AB
Aug 7th, 2007 at 3:25PM:
I arrived in Edmonton and missed my hoodie. Temperatures were as low as 7 degrees Celsius this week and here it is August! When I left Ontario, it was over 30 degrees in the shade and so I hadn't prepared myself. Mental note: be a good traveller and look at the weather reports before hopping a plane across a vast country next time, alright? The cold front didn't dull my mood, though, because ...
