Scott Laird

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Sep. 15, 2020

What U.S. Travelers Should Know About Traveling to Croatia Now

Europe has long been popular with American vacationers. In 2020, however, the COVID-19 pandemic has spurred bilateral entry restrictions between the United States and many European countries, resulting in a major slowdown of transatlantic traffic.…

Sep. 2, 2020

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25 Socially Distant Views of Bora Bora

Bora Bora is the stuff of vacation lore. Crystal clear turquoise lagoons, lurid sunset, and the craggy profile of Mount Otemanu conspire to spoil visitors with brochure views at every turn. It's all underpinned by the curious paradoxes of French…

Aug. 20, 2020

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What It's Like Traveling to Tahiti and Bora Bora Right Now During COVID-19 Pandemic

French Polynesia, which encompasses an area of the South Pacific the size of Continental Europe, reopened borders to international visitors on July 15 after one of the most stringent lockdowns anywhere on the globe. The semi-autonomous territory of…

Aug. 17, 2020

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What It's Like to Be on the Ground in Tahiti Right Now

The resort shop at The St. Regis Bora Bora carries the typical assortment of items for a high-end luxury beach resort: sunscreen, logo apparel and a number of bride and groom matching accessory sets. But nestled into one corner of the shop, past the…

Aug. 3, 2020

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How Prohibition and the Depression Made Modern Cruising

Never in the history of modern cruising has the industry faced such an existential crisis. Sailings have been canceled for the foreseeable future, ships have idled and their onboard crews, some of which represent significant contributions to the GDPs…

Jul. 15, 2020

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Tahiti Now Open to Tourism: Here's What to Expect

While most of the world remains closed for non-essential travel to U.S. passport holders, there are a few exceptions. In French Polynesia, marketed as the Islands of Tahiti, quarantine measures to stop the spread of COVID-19 were exceptional,…

Jul. 12, 2020

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20 Hotels Over 100 Years Old

Old hotels are exciting. Some are relics of a bygone age that have managed to maintain their original elegance and style throughout the decades, while others offer only hints of what they might have been like for their first guests. In either case,…

Jul. 9, 2020

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How Travel Advisors Can Keep Clients Engaged Right Now

2020 was shaping up to be a great year for travel—until it wasn’t. Many travel consultants spent much of the spring months canceling and rebooking clients or spending long hours on hold with suppliers navigating cancellation and refund policies, with…

Jul. 6, 2020

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100 Years of Summer Vacations - Travel Trends From Each Decade

Jun. 2, 2020

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How I Hope The Cruise Industry Comes Back

The cruise industry has virtually ceased to exist during the COVID-19 pandemic. Cruise lines have canceled departures for most or all of the summer season, while many of the ships are anchored in or off various ports around the world (many of them…

Jun. 1, 2020

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The Necessity of Travel Advisors in the Era of Information Overload

If there’s anything travelers have learned from the Internet, it’s that there’s an obscene amount of information out there regarding travel. If there’s anything travelers have learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s that the shelf life of…

Jun. 1, 2020

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21 Aircraft That Changed How We Travel

Heavier-than-air human flight is just over a hundred years old, and the technological advances undertaken by the aviation industry in that century is, quite simply, spectacular. Travelers went from no public air transport to jumbo jets within the…

May. 7, 2020

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These Cities Are Known For Travel Firsts

Ever wondered where today's popular travel trends originated? Where was the first free hotel bath amenity? How about the first catering kitchen dedicated to airline food? Some of the cities on our list make sense, like the first city to have a hotel…

May. 3, 2020

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How These Travel Traditions Got Started

Travel is a medium marked by tradition. For centuries, generations of travelers have been marking milestones and celebrating their journeys in ways that are still celebrated among travelers today. But what are the origins of the Bon Voyage fruit…

Apr. 20, 2020

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Ecotourism In-Depth: Planting Coral in the South Pacific

It’s easy to miss Coral Gardeners on Moorea’s single main road. The instructions I have are that it’s on Cook’s Bay between Kaveka Resort and Allo Pizza on the oceanfront side of the road. Looking closely, one might notice the small black-and-white…

Apr. 4, 2020

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W Mexico City: Youthful, Earthy Energy

Upon arrival into my gorgeous room at the W Mexico City, I found a note from Diego, my W Insider, with a Lady Gaga lyric. “Hot like Mexico, rejoice,” it read, appropriately. Inside was the ticket for the National Museum of Anthropology we’d been…

Apr. 3, 2020

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Rangiroa's Hotel Kia Ora: Luxury on the Reef

After a couple of years traveling to French Polynesia, I began to notice that the territory’s resort hotels are generally populated by two types of visitors: those that are pleased to be there, and those that are pleased with themselves to be there.…

Apr. 1, 2020

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Hotels Continue Hospitality Tradition in Extraordinary Times

Many hotels in the United States and around the world closed to guests for the foreseeable future during March 2020 because of significant drops in demand related to the COVID-19 pandemic. While it might make sense for hotels to close when their…

Mar. 17, 2020

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Love of Travel in the Time of Coronavirus: Why I Kept Going

“Don’t you ever stay home?” I get the same question from my Mother whenever I tell her I’m traveling that weekend (which is often). She herself is by no means a shut-in, having cruised the Nile on a barge and hiked ancient footpaths in the Andes, but…

Mar. 15, 2020

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Undaunted by Coronavirus, Vacationers Continue to Visit Puerto Vallarta

Mexico has a handful of cases of COVID-19, but when I arrived in Puerto Vallarta this morning, one couldn’t tell the difference. My flight wasn’t full, but it appeared other arrivals around the same time were. The crush of pale northerners seeking…