David Cogswell

Hoboken

Freelance Writer at Freelance

writer, explorer, piano player, fantasist

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Articles

Montreal Jazz in New York

2 weeks ago | travelresearchonline.com | David Cogswell

During a week when a Canadian MP called the Trump tariffs an “act of war,” the Canadian prime minister announced that the era of close ties with the U.S. is over, and reports were surfacing of Canadians being detained by U.S. immigration officials, a few intrepid representatives of Tourism Montreal made the trip to New York to promote the Montreal Jazz Festival.
VisitBritain Reclaims Britain from the Movies

3 weeks ago | travelresearchonline.com | David Cogswell

The movie, “by which we roll up the real world on a spool,” said Marshall McLuhan, “in order to unroll it as a magic carpet of fantasy,” has always been a trip. Movies and travel were closely linked from the beginning. One of the great attractions of film is that it takes us to places we may not be able to experience in “real life,” whatever that term even means anymore.
Australia, Like Nothing Else

1 month ago | travelresearchonline.com | David Cogswell

Ever feel like you want to get the hell out, get as far away as possible, and completely change your perspective? It’s a good thing to do, periodically, to blow out the cobwebs and start fresh. There are many ways to do that, but I suggest travel to Australia. There’s nothing like Australia, it’s one of the most different environments to experience on earth.
From Trevor to Elon, the Bookends of South African Apartheid

1 month ago | travelresearchonline.com | David Cogswell

There’s a new reason to travel to South Africa!With Elon Musk becoming the second most powerful man (some say the most powerful) in America, there’s a new reason to explore South Africa. Since I discovered South Africa myself, I’ve been telling Americans about it. I’ve been recommending it for many reasons, but one in particular is because I think it has a unique parallel to the United States, and one that gave me new insights into our own culture and history.
Rental Escapes and the Rise of the Villa Rentals Market

2 months ago | travelresearchonline.com | David Cogswell

There’s a shift taking place in the travel industry, categories are being redefined as traveler preferences evolve. Rental Escapes, one of the up-and-coming villa rental companies, is not a hotel company or a tour operator but covers the functions of both. Historically hotels and tour operators have been separate businesses offering different but complementary services.
SITA World Tours Combines the New with the Very Old

2 months ago | travelresearchonline.com | David Cogswell

Now in its 92nd year of operations, SITA World Tours is an old-timer. But the travel industry is far too dynamic and ever-changing to allow any company to get set in its ways. No tour operator survives nine decades without being highly alert and adaptable. SITA must be vibrant and agile to keep on top of constantly changing times. It combines its use of new technologies with some practices that haven’t essentially changed since the company started in 1933. Primitive? Old fashioned? Perhaps.
California After the Fires: Visiting Can Be Helping

2 months ago | travelresearchonline.com | David Cogswell

Anyone who has seen any footage of the recent fires in Southern California has to have been terrified. It looked as though Los Angeles, long seen by the world as a heavenly place, had been turned into a flaming inferno. The spreading, engulfing flames carried by high winds were beyond any human efforts to resist. It defied belief and still does. The situation is literally beyond comprehension. California has suffered one of the worst disasters ever seen.
Finding the Human-AI Sweet Spot in Customer Service

2 months ago | travelresearchonline.com | David Cogswell

With the astonishing advances in AI in the last three years, it might be a good time to reassess the importance of the human touch in customer service. I am amazed at what the latest wave of generative AI can do, on top of the tremendous advances we’ve been living with for a while already. A new horizon is coming into view of infinite ways to apply these new technologies. People are discovering ways to combine them with other technologies that already exist or are now being developed.
Goway Celebrates 55th Anniversary with Film Contest and Series of Promotions

Jan 23, 2025 | travelresearchonline.com | David Cogswell

Founded in 1970, Goway Travel is now in its 55th year. Whatever else was happening in the world between 1970 and today, Bruce Hodge was building a travel company. He was a young Australian trained as an economist, but that interest was overridden by a passion for travel. He moved from Australia to Canada and settled in Toronto. After working briefly as a tour guide in England he got the inspiration to start his own tour operation.
Discovering Panama, a Narrow Strip with a Wide Range of Possibilities

Jan 16, 2025 | travelresearchonline.com | David Cogswell

Panama is a tiny country everyone knows a little about, but most of us don’t know very much about. We all know about the Panama Canal, which revolutionized world transportation and shipping when it was completed by the United States in 1914 after 10 years of construction, following a failed attempt by the French to do the same thing. The importance of the canal cannot be overstated. It saves about 8,000 nautical miles in making the trip from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.