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  The last piece I wrote was about how travel reward programs work and I hope it was somewhat enlightening, even if it was a bit of a downer. I have belonged to many a reward program over the years, been burned by expiry dates or ‘non-qualifying flights’ that screwed me out of perks I [...]

Many years ago I set out to study literature and it was one of the best decisions of my life. It opened me up to a world of ideas and avenues of thought I either had no idea existed or if I did, didn’t know the extent to which those things influenced everyday life. I [...]

I have written a bit about the movies that I enjoy and their appeal as tourism promotional tools, but this isn’t just limited to those that you would be proud to say you enjoyed. Even those movies that I wish I could erase from my memory work as travel inspiration – in fact, sometimes they [...]

  Movies were my first great love. Before there was travel, movies were a way for me to escape to a place that I couldn’t get to but longed to one day see. This meant I saw a fair number of stinkers in my time (and continue to) in an effort to see some place [...]

Ah cinema… could there be a better tourism promoter? It’s not uncommon to get a bit of the travel bug after watching a really good movie, or even a terrible movie, if it’s filmed in a fantastic location. The story can be riveting or the character development could be infantile, but if it’s splayed across [...]