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Can someone offer advice on a Jamaican resort? http://www.tripatini.com/forum/topics/jamaica
Just posted a couple of photos from the annual NYTWA holiday party, always one of the best events of the season. How many of these attendees can you identify? http://bit.ly/vPDVi5
Check my latest blog post, sahring some of the impressions about the World Rafting Championship 2011 hosted in my beautiful Costa Rica! Any inputs or suggestions are welcome! Thansks
FWTWA Partial Speaker Lineup for 2012 Las Vegas Conference. We will have more, we wanted to get this out. We still have room for 10 more Associates at our Marketplace. Perfect time to network and meet our journalists as well as take part in our program. Deadline for registration has been extended to 12-20-11.
I love books that tell a great story but I want to learn something at the same time. I knew that since Tripaptin member Linda Ballou was a travel writer that I would learn about Hawaii but what I didn't realize is that she is a beautiful writer. This story takes place at the time in history where the Hawaiians are introduced to the Europeans as seen from the Hawaiian viewpoint. It is a story about a strong woman living in a country warlike country. Just get that picture of peaceful Hawaiians out of your head. She weaves a tale that keeps you intrigued all the way to the end. This is a great read about a fierce heroine. In fact, I liked the story so much I asked Linda to do an interview for my blog. Follow this link to read her interview. http://thebesttravelnovels.blogspot.com/2011/10/travel-to-hawaii-wi...
Passing along from member Claire Saylor:
Hello from Nature Landings!
We are the inflight magazine for Nature Air, a regional airline that flies around Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Panama. I wanted to put out a line to see if anyone has interesting story topics on Costa Rica, Nicaragua or the Bocas del Toro region. We publish 6 editions each year with a distribution of 10,000 per edition -- mainly to our direct clients, as well as to hotels in the destinations we fly to. Focuses include new tours, eco-initiatives, people making a difference, unknown travel destinations, and more. Check us out online, at www.naturelandings.com . We also accept pitches from freelance journalists that live in the area.
email: csaylor@naturegroup.net
Online book publishing service Blurb today launched a new way to publish collections of photos - as an eBook for the iPad. The new eBooks come in templated or custom two-page layouts, which readers can swipe through, search the text of and zoom into full resolution images.
Publishers pay $1.99 per book and get to keep 100% of the profit beyond that cost. Paper books from Blurb start at $10 each to print on demand. Two buck easy-to-make eBook publishing on demand sounds awesome.