So who’s winning the battle between online booking: desktop or mobile? Skyscanner decided to take a look at their own statistics, and shared their results in the above infographic. Turns out, we travelers are still complete luddites when it comes to booking, with about 70% of us still booking via […]

On Tuesday, January 8, 2013, the makers of Life and the channel that brought you The Blue Planet and Planet Earth is premiering Africa, the newest installment in their epic quest to document the world in all its high-def and cinematic glory. Four years in the making, this seven-part series […]

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but recently, a lot of people in the online travel business have been making a lot — one could even say boatloads — of money. What, fellow travel blogger, you ask? Why haven’t you noticed much difference in your consistently depleting bank account (which, […]

I was recently invited to speak at the Contently.com headquarters here in New York City as part of a two-person panel discussion for their monthly Freelance Writers Meetup, an honor in it of itself, but even more so since I got to sit next to and speak along with the […]

This is real twitter.com/michaeltritter… — michael-tritter (@michaeltritter) November 26, 2012   Ever kind of think that New Zealand is taking this whole Lord of the Rings thing too seriously? First came the Air New Zealand The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey-themed airline safety video, complete with a Peter Jackson cameo, and […]

For those of us from North America, spring break is known as the week when pasty Greeks and their college brethren from all over the country descend onto the warmer locales of Panama City, Cancun and Negril for a booze-fueled orgy of bucket beers, foam parties, regrettable tattoos and other […]

Below is a list of the top 50 travel blogs for the 3rd quarter (July - September) of 2012 ranked by visitor traffic. There are a few other sites that have put together their own lists of the “top” travel blogs. However, each has their own subjective means of ranking […]

Visitors to New York City this holiday season will get the first chance to see the new light show that is The Empire State Building. Once home to stodgy monochrome lights that changed every week or so to reflect the time of the year (or a Giants Super Bowl win), […]

Gaston Blanchet and Kerrin Sheldon are the travel filmmakers behind the Kickstarter project Humanity.TV, a short-documentary series that intends to break away from the traditional travel host format and instead feature authentic stories of locals from all over the world telling their own stories in their own land. If successful, […]

Everyone’s favorite ex-Monty Python member turned traveler turned three-year term as president of the Royal Geographical Society, Michael Palin, is back with a new travel series, Brazil With Michael Palin, which recently began airing on the BBC, and hopefully coming to a local station (or Netflix) soon. Palin, who long […]