I think people who work at a city or state’s convention and visitors bureau have the hardest jobs. These are people who must tout the latest and greatest going on in their respective areas, but obviously have zero control over outside forces.
Imagine working at New York’s tourism office right after 9/11. Ouch.
We’ve discussed New Orleans’ [...]
Tags:social media·tourism
Budget Travel, I want to love you. I have subscribed to your magazine for years. I love your mission of inexpensive travel, and I do believe that you fulfill a good purpose. You’re like the scrappy cousin of the hoity-toity fancies at Travel + Leisure, the Nick Carraway to their Great Gatsby. So please take [...]
Tags:magazines·travel writing
Granted, it can be tough to be a stylish traveler. In general, avoiding anything reversible made of lycra seems like a good place to start. I try to give travel writers a curve when it comes to clothing options. I can almost forgive a pair of blocky mandles, for example, because, let’s face it, judging [...]
Tags:bad ideas
Over the holidays I was going through security in Madison, Wisconsin on my way back to Seattle. My hometown is certainly not a hotbed of terrorism, but the way TSA went through my luggage I might as well have been in Tel Aviv.
I was carrying powdered soap and a scented candle someone had given me as a [...]
Tags:airports
One trick pony Frank Gehry has flown over the cuckoo’s nest.
Dezeen magazine reports on his unbelievably hideous Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health which recently opened in Las Vegas. Imagine the low man on the totem pole in Gehry’s office stuck on this project for three years. He or she would seriously have to have [...]
Tags:bad design·Guggenheim
Lia and I do like Virgin America Airlines, despite their in-flight texting (personally not a fan) and other idiosyncrasies. They’ve taken innovative approaches to differentiating themselves in the marketplace, which I always appreciate.
However, when I saw this on Virgin America’s Twitter feed, I was immediately annoyed.
Look, I can appreciate attempting to green your business. But [...]
Tags:airlines·social media
Recently, I figured something out that seemed significant to me. I have no hotel in L.A. that I’ve ever stayed at twice. Each and every one has had some fatal flaw.
Admittedly, I’m hampered by two things: A hope for a stylish interior, and a desire for ample amounts of the single most important hotel entity. [...]
Tags:hotels·Los Angeles
Las Vegas pretty much stands for everything that I hate in the travel industry.
Artificial everything. Horribly unsustainable. Tacky to no end.
I was recently there for work, and I walked around like a wilted flower. If you’re there on business, most likely you’re staying at the conference hotel and are forced to walk through the casino [...]
Tags:Las Vegas
The Seattle Times travel section is so bad, it’s embarrassing. We’ve already wondered aloud how Carol Pucci still has a job, but even in a Pucci-free Sunday travel section, the simplistic writing keeps on coming. Take this Q&A with Kristin Jackson:
Will Europe fares go down?
Q: My wife and I are taking a 21-day accompanied [...]
Tags:bad writing·Seattle Times
Sometimes there’s a fail that’s so spectacular, it needs double the action, double the fun, which is why we’re giving you a fly-on-the-newelty-wall approach with the messiness that is the Sex and the City 2 trailer.
Microwave yourself a 100-calorie popcorn pack, watch the insane trailer for Sex and the City: Because SJP’s Townhouses Don’t Come [...]
Tags:Abu Dhabi·New York City
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