To travel best requires some time preparing for your visit to a particular location - that you don't travel anywhere without spending a few nights re….

At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broade….

Tourism does not go to a city that has lost its soul..

If I tell a hotel I'm a travel writer, I can't get out of there without spending a few hours looking at every single room!.

I find, on my own travels, that the most depressing form of culture shock is experienced when you go into a country that is under the thumb of a dict….

Dubai,I think is a big bore - a city deliberately built to appeal to tourism, and only built for that purpose, and not possessing a valid culture or ….

I've always found that the best travelers are the very same people who are intensely interested in the history and culture of their own home city..

Once abroad, I eat one meal a day picnic-style: Ive learned that no mature stomach can tolerate an endless routine of rich restaurant meals..

What a treasure of awesome sights and attractions our country has..

In all of America, there is no more promising an urban area for revitalization than your own Over-the-Rhine. When I look at that remarkably untouched….

Luckily you cannot get to the Golden Triangle in a bus. You can only access it on your own two feet!.

You avoid the overcrowding of tourist locations by traveling in off-season. That is now one of the major rules of smart travel - go when the tourists….

I'm somewhat antagonistic towards these various projects that charge $250,000 per person for the ability to be weightless for 3 minutes after being b….

In general, my advice is to seek out people and new ideas when you travel..

I always feel depressed when I go into a country under dictatorial rule..

My favorite place in the whole world is the city of Paris. to me, Paris stands at the frontier of every major category of travel - in food, art, thea….

My favorite place that I've been to that most people haven't been to is the Golden Triangle in the northeast of Thailand, which is inhabited by peopl….

Nicaragua is becoming the least expensive Caribbean destination..

I regard Paris as a feast for the eyes, the senses and brain. It is a phenomenal city..