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A tribute to my friend, the late travel media icon Arthur Frommer
The legendary U.S. travel journalist and entrepreneur Arthur Frommer passed away November 18 at the age of 95. Born in Virginia and with an early boyhood in a small town in Missouri, Arthur was a lawyer who became a pioneering and great travel journalist, and who will be remembered as having helped open the joys of travel to the masses. While serving in the U.S. Army in Europe in the 1950s, he got the travel bug, came out with a travel guide for servicemen, and followed up in 1957 with…
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So Sam are you operating a B&B?
This is why I never unpack anymore. I seem to be really bad at leaving behind cell phone chargers. And at one hotel I left behind a great light fleece top that I really wanted back, as well as another charger. I called the hotel housekeeping department and they promised to forward it. It never arrived.
On another trip my cell phone slipped out of my pocket at the airport in Toronto. I didn't realize it until I was home (I don't get a lot of calls). A few days later I got a call from the airport authority who had my cell phone. They asked for my address and I gave it to them. The phone never arrived. See a pattern here?
I'm told that hotels no longer automatically return items to guests because they don't want to get people in trouble. Sometimes guests aren't supposed to be guests. Or they're sharing accommodations with someone they shouldn't be. So if you've lost something, you have to ask for it. Not, in my case, that that does any good.
This reminds me that I had cousins who used to mail underwear to another cousin's husband's office whenever he or she had been away. They did this because his secretary opened his mail and he would feel the need to explain it was just his wife's crazy family.
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Staff were pleasant, cheerful, truly friendly and ever ready to help. I enjoyed the food. Good locations to use as a base for wandering around. In Vail the beds were so thick and I'm so short I almost had to get a running start to get on to the bed. Not the most damning thing to be said of a place.
Media visited EcoTraining as part of the Green Product tour to South Africa
SA Tourism and EcoTraining – The “Green product”. I do a yearly introduction to green products as part of SA tourism drive; if you’re interested to join the next group let me know. We are interested in sustainable and adventure tourism writers and bloggers with large audiences. EcoTraining
The last one was in February 2011 and provided insight into unknown products that is on offer in South Africa. 8 journalist were sponsored by Media agencies internationally and SA Tourism to join in the 5 day trip to experience emergence with the bush like no other.
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