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1 week ago | 
travelweekly.com | Arnie Weissmann
Consumer editors roundtable • Part 2 of 2 When consumer travel editors from the U.S. and U.K. gathered in Braemar, Scotland, no trend was left unturned.
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2 weeks ago | 
travelweekly.com | Arnie Weissmann
Consumer editors roundtable • Part 1 of 2 The Travel Weekly Consumer Editors Roundtable moved to Scotland this year, where top U.S. editors were joined by U.K. colleagues for a deep dive into global travel trends.
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2 weeks ago | 
travelweekly.com | Arnie Weissmann
There is a travel agency in London, MB Private Clients, whose area of expertise is to ensure, to the extent possible, that the holes don't line up for their customers. One of their clients, attorney Robert Amsterdam, wrote a cover story for Travel Weekly in 2017 about how MB Private Clients literally saved his life and got him out of a very dangerous situation in Russia.
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3 weeks ago | 
travelweekly.com | Arnie Weissmann
Mejdi Tours aims to redefine what a tour can be, inviting travelers to listen deeply, challenge assumptions and find humanity across divides. Report and photos by Arnie WeissmannApril 21, 2025 Most tour operators tend to try to avoid, rather than meet with, street gangs and revolutionaries. Organized discussions about death squads, vigilantes and drug lords are not typically on itineraries.
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3 weeks ago | 
travelweekly.com | Arnie Weissmann
I know that to be true. Some people, when they learn what my job is and begin talking about travel, will say, almost with pride, "I would never take a cruise."I sought out Darr later that day to ask him what he might recommend that a travel advisor say to someone who has a strong negative reaction to the idea of taking a cruise.
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1 month ago | 
travelweekly.com | Arnie Weissmann
The other points he made that I found most interesting had to do with the leadership challenges that arise from the quickening pace of technological innovation. Palmer said that some tasks that used to take him five hours can now be done in about five minutes, thanks to AI.
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1 month ago | 
travelweekly.com | Arnie Weissmann
"We are bringing the destination onboard with culinary and cultural events," said Azamara CEO Dondra Ritzenthaler. "Until now, we did destination immersion on shore, and we are elevating that and bringing it to our guest when onboard in the beautiful places we visit around the world."The four-ship cruise line will add 150 "destination entrees," to its Market Fresh dining program, focusing on regional cuisines and local ingredients.
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1 month ago | 
travelweekly.com | Arnie Weissmann
The new ship will feature two restaurants, two bars and two whirlpools, compared to one of each on the Aranui 5, the company's only vessel currently sailing. The Aranoa will also carry fewer passengers than the Aranui 5 -- 198 vs. 230. It will have 93 cabins, and 62 will have balconies. Like its older sister, the Aranoa will be a hybrid cruise/cargo ship, bringing passengers and supplies to remote islands in French Polynesia. The Aranoa will sail to the Austral Islands, 500 miles south of Tahiti.
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1 month ago | 
travelweekly.com | Arnie Weissmann
The speaker, Palmer Group CEO Shelly Palmer, was giving a keynote at the Association of National Advertisers' AI and Technology for Marketers Conference in Austin, Texas, last week. Palmer, a respected technology consultant to Fortune 500 companies, was using travel as an example of how the rapid advancement of AI agents is going to impact industries.
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1 month ago | 
travelweekly.com | Arnie Weissmann
"And pay no attention to that woman shackled to a bench. That's Ms. Lennon Tyler. "Why yes, she is an American citizen. But her fiance, Lucas Sielaff, is German. They went to Mexico, and when they returned we asked where they were heading and where they lived. He said, 'Las Vegas.' Well, to us, that was a confession that he lived in Las Vegas even though he only had a tourist visa. "She said his English wasn't very good and that, yes, they were heading to Las Vegas, but no, he doesn't live there.
