Destination Events: A Reason Travelers Visit and Return
Once two totally separate industries, the special events industry and the travel industry are working more closely together than ever before, leading to mutually successful business relationships, new and fresh tour itineraries, and destination events (as opposed to local events) putting “heads in beds.” The American Bus Association has realized this for the past 28 years and annually votes on the Top 100 Events in North America for tour operators. Similarly, Red Hot Celebrations is...
Read MoreStudent Travel Planning Guide Provides Valuable Lessons
Tour planners interested in expanding their student travel offerings—or jumping into the student market for the first time—will find a gold mine of practical tips in the 2011 edition of Student Travel Planning Guide. A comprehensive resource for planning student/youth trips, the 36-page guide is published by Premier Tourism Marketing, parent company of Leisure Group Travel. Randy Mink, managing editor of Student Travel Planning Guide, said, “Teachers, travel agents and other tour...
Read MoreCross Country International Offers Two New Horseback Riding Vacations
Cross Country International (CCI) is offering two exciting new riding vacation packages in California – the California Northern Coast Trail and the California Wine Country Trail Ride. rn rn“After a day of riding along the beautiful California Coast, there is no better way to spend the evening than returning to a good meal, fine wine and the conversation of friends,” said Cross Country International President Karen Lancaster. “That is exactly what our visitors...
Read MoreOpening Day for Two Major Exhibitions at Atlanta's High Museum
rnrn“Inspiring Impressionism,” the first comprehensive survey to explore the influence of Old Master painters on Impressionist artists, opens at the High Museum of Art on October 16, 2007. This groundbreaking exhibition juxtaposes works by such artists as Monet, Cézanne and Degas with those by Titian, Rubens and Fragonard to explore the impact that 17th-century Dutch and Spanish Schools and the French Rococo style had on 19th-century French Impressionism. rn rn“Inspiring Impressionism” features 86 works, including paintings and works on paper, drawn from more than 40 museums, some of which have never traveled to the United States. Organized by the Denver Art Museum, the exhibition will remain on view in Atlanta through January 13, 2008, and subsequently will travel to the Seattle Art Museum. rnrnrnrnThis exhibition features masterpieces from the founding cultures of Western civilization and will include more than 70 works from the Louvre’s unparalleled Egyptian, Near Eastern and Greco-Roman antiquities collections. Showcasing works dating from the third millennium BC through the third century AD, the exhibition will examine the rise of the museum and its collections of antiquities under Napoleon, the discoveries and decipherment of hieroglyphics and cuneiform and the Louvre’s leading role in excavating the cradle of civilization at the end of the 19th century and during the 20th century. A special installation will showcase the colossal, ten-foot-long “Tiber”—one of the largest sculptures in the Louvre’s collections. The statue, which has not left the museum since it was acquired in 1803, personifies the Tiber River, Rome’s main trade artery. rnrn“The Eye of Josephine,” on view through May 18, 2008, will reassemble more than 60 masterworks from the collection of Greco-Roman and Egyptian antiquities that were installed by the Empress Josephine Bonaparte at Malmaison, her residence located on the outskirts of Paris. In 1801 Ferdinand IV, King of Naples, gave Napoleon Bonaparte a collection of antiquities unearthed at Herculaneum and Pompeii as a peace offering, which Napoleon in turn gave to his wife, Josephine. The exhibition, which will reunite Josephine’s antiquities for the first time since their dispersal among the Louvre’s various collections in 1814, will feature fragments of frescoes, bronzes, marbles, an extensive group of Greek vases and a small number of Egyptian sculptures. rnrnContact:
Read MorePhoCusWright’s Groups and Meetings: Market Opportunity Redefined
Companies seeking the next big online travel opportunity need to explore the groups and meetings arena, according to a new report published by PhoCusWright Inc. This complex but steady marketplace, valued at over US$164 billion in the U.S. alone, is one of the next frontiers and key competitive areas for e-commerce and one of the last major revenue streams to move online. rnrnThe U.S. groups and meetings marketplace is projected to reach $175 billion by 2008, with travel...
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