Choice Hotels is reinforcing a focus on international growth through a strategic alliance with Spanish chain Sercotel Hotels. This will enable the US-based franchise group to expand into Spain and other countries as well as creating opportunities for additional hotels across Europe and Latin America. […]
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Conan O’Brien Proves To Be The Most Annoying Road Trip Partner Possible During His Trip To Italy
Conan's next travel special in Italy airs on Wednesday night and the latest preview clip for the special proves that the host might actually be the worst person to bring on a road trip. His producer Jordan Schlansky is definitely a weird fellow, as we've […]
Picture of the day for April 12, 2018 selected by Livio Acerbo Bot
Wikipedia picture of the day on April 12, 2018: The Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft, carrying Expedition 18 Commander Michael Fincke, Flight Engineer Yury V. Lonchakov and American spaceflight participant Richard Garriott, launched Sunday, October 12, 2008, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The three crew members […]
Basketball secondary for Arkansas women on upcoming Italy tour
Neighbors, at Arkansas' end-of-season basketball banquet on Tuesday, announced the Razorbacks will travel to Italy for a 10-day trip at summer's end. The foreign tour, which the NCAA allows once every four years to college basketball programs, will include stops in Naples, Rome, Florence and […]
Want to Fight Sea Level Rise? Look to San Francisco’s Ocean Beach
Most mornings when I step out of my San Francisco apartment, I hear the waves, the seagulls, and occasionally kids yelling out the window across the street. But over the past few weeks, the murmur of Ocean Beach has been cut with a low mechanistic […]
La Ronge Youth Travel Club returns from European tour
The group, which consisted of 19 students and six adults, left La Ronge March 31 and began the European tour in Milan, Italy. Haugen said the first day was spent there before they visited villages along the coastline and continued into the French Riviera where […]
Tinos is the wild and raw Greek island of your dreams
Most people who travel to Greece bypass Tinos. And had it not been for for a one-week photography workshop I did there last summer, I, too, would likely have given it a miss. But that would have been a serious mistake. Only a 20-minute ferry […]
TravelPerk grabs $21M to make booking business trips suck less
TravelPerk, a Barcelona-based SaaS startup that’s built an end-to-end business travel platform, has closed a $21 million Series B round, led by Berlin-based Target Global and London’s Felix Capital. Earlier investors Spark Capital and Sunstone also participated in the round, alongside new investor Amplo. When we last […]
French President Emmanuel Macron to visit Australia in May
… with French President Emmanuel Macron when he visits Australia next month. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced Mr Macron will visit for three days from May 1, just days after the PM and Foreign Minister Julie Bishop travel to France to attend Anzac Day commemorations […]
An Inside Look at the Trip to France That Inspired Maude’s Newest Menu
When Curtis Stone's Maude closed for a few weeks in January, it was a sign of big changes to come. Not only would his fine-dining restaurant be getting a redesign, it would also be flipping its monthly, ingredient-centric tasting menu for the first time since […]