We are starting 2016 with fun!! Join us next week on Travel Talk to for our first show of the year when we welcome Jennifer Buenrostro-Carnival Cruise Lines Business Development Director.
Learn what Carnival Cruise Line has planned for 2016, how they deliver fun and memorable vacations for guest and what they are doing to support nonprofits.
Organizing seminars, corporate events, conference or retreats regardless of the size can be a daunting experience. There are so many details (venue, accommodations for attendees, food, audio/visual equipment and extracurricular activities) to consider, especially if the event is over the course of several days. Listen to the replay
Amber Verdugo from Pro Travel Network (PTN) joins the Travel Talk co-hosts to discuss how to PTN simplifies the planning experience by hosting Corporate Events @ Sea.
From the planning stages to promoting the event, Ms. Verdugo will share the benefits of hosting your next event onboard your favorite cruise line. Perhaps our hosts can also get the inside scoop about PTN’s upcoming Cruise to Hawaii in 2016.
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Have you ever thought about RVing Across America? Listen to the show.
Well, that is exactly what Best Selling Author, Speaker and Founder of Teen Confidence Academy – Jacqui Letran is doing with her trusty travel companions. Around the same time she embarked on her cross country adventure, Ms. Letran also started a 100-Day Happiness Challenge.
Jacqui is stopping the Travel Talk to share how the first 70 days of happiness has gone as well as some of her favorite places to visit while RVing.
In the words of American Writer, Henry Miller, “One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.”
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If you follow the Travel Talk co-hosts on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram then you know they are obsessed with Twitter’s new live video streaming mobile app, Periscope, and the marketing potential this platform has to promote tourism worldwide.
Periscope officially launched on March 26, 2015 and the usage statistics as of August 12, 2015 are staggering.
10 Million Registered Users
2 Million Daily Active Users
350,000 Hours of Video Streamed Daily
Available in 25 Languages
Anne, Dawn, Doreen and Jake have compiled a list of their favorite Periscope Broadcasters “Scopers” in alphabetical order. From Travel-preneurs, Blogging Digital Nomads, Business Owners to Life Coaches with these 20 Broadcasters you should have enough content to watch on a daily basis.
Travel is a $8.1 Trillion industry with a countless number of niche markets and specialities. For new (and even veteran) travel-preneurs navigating the landscape can be daunting. If you find yourself feeling overwhelmed take a deep breath and remember – Why YOU love travel.
The Travel Talk hosts have compiled their Top 3 Tips for the New Travel-preneur.
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Seeing London Through PeriscopeHave you heard of the new social media platform owned by Twitter called Periscope that is taking the internet by storm gaining 1 million users in just 10-days? In comparison, it took social media giant Facebook a month to reach 1 million.
So what is it?
Periscope is a mobile app that allows users to “Live Stream” anytime anywhere from a smartphone. It also enables the ‘scoper’ to engage with the audience in real-time during the broadcast. The app also has integrated a sharing feature so viewers can invite their Periscope and Twitter followers. How does this apply to Travel? Periscope has the potential to virtually boost tourism by sharing local hangouts or must see spots. One of the platform’s early adopters is Orion who scopes around London giving viewers daily virtual vacations. Learn from Orion how you can use the platform to promote travel.
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Eco-Conscious Travel with Green with Tiffany Host – Tiffany Paige
There are many reasons why those with a wanderlust spirit love to travel. For the co-hosts of Travel Talk it is to marvel at the natural beauty, to experience local cuisine and immerse themself into the culture and history of a particular destination. However, pollution, plastics, toxins, chemicals and poaching are having devastating effects on our eco-system. For example, research now suggests the chemical oxybenzone found in most sunscreen causes coral bleaching.
Los Angeles native Tiffany Paige is the host of “Green with Tiffany” a blog and webisode series educating people on how they can make simple modifications to their daily routine to reduce their carbon footprint. Ms. Paige will share simple eco-friendly travel tips we can all implement.
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Tune in every Wednesday at 10:00am PT for Travel Talk with our hosts Doreen Wong, Dawn Barraco and Jake Culbertson
Travel is a $8.1 Trillion industry with over $36 Billion spent on cruises last year worldwide.
Now imagine a portion of that money being donated to your favorite nonprofit or charitable organization. Cruise for a Cause is a new, unique and fun way to fund-raise. However, when it comes to organizing this type of fundraising event, many of us within the travel and nonprofit industry have no idea where to start.
Be sure to have a pen and paper handy for this week’s Travel Talk show. Travel-preneur and philanthropist, Mary Cofield from Just Us 4 Travel is stopping by to share step by step instructions with listeners as well as the benefits of cruising for a cause.
To listen – http://www.blogtalkradio.com/surgenation
Tune in every Wednesday at 10:00am PT for Travel Talk with our hosts Doreen Wong, Dawn Barraco and Jake Culbertson
The Longest Honeymoon – 6 Continents, 36 Countries on Less than $40 Per Day
Know someone who is planning their honeymoon? Is a 10-day vacation just not long enough? Then you definitely want to listen and share this episode of Travel Talk!
Mike and Anne Howard of HoneyTrek.com will be stopping by to discuss their Longest Honeymoon – 500 days, 6 continents, 36 countries while spending less than $40 per day. In 2011, the Howards quit their jobs to embark on this epic adventure and have not turned back.
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Tune in every Wednesday at 10:00am PT for Travel Talk with our hosts Doreen Wong, Dawn Barraco and Jake Culbertson
Travel, Traditions and Memories.
According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) each year an estimated 14 million people around the world learn they have some form of cancer. He/She is someone’s son, daughter, husband, wife, father, mother, brother, sister, cousin, uncle, aunt, grandfather, grandmother and friend. Once the diagnosis is received life because a whirlwind of doctors’ appointment, treatments, co-pays, and care management.
Duane Vancil joins the Travel Talk hosts to share the importance of creating memories during this time and the purpose of the Jennifer Wynn Vancil Cancer Foundation, named in honor of his wife.
“While this foundation is named in honor of my wife it is meant to be so much more. It is to be a vehicle to help as many families as possible, to allow families to enjoy a well deserved break from cancer; to receive a cool glass of water in the middle of their desert that is cluttered with surgeries, trials, treatments, doctor visits and mounting medical bills in addition to the responsibilities of parenting and work. However, for those of you who are not familiar with “the story” of Jennifer, you can go to www.jennifervancil.com. But rest assured that this foundation is about the thousands of stories that we, together, will help make as we help families build memories that will last for a lifetime! Have a memory making day.”
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