Planning your next vacation?
If you're in the New York City area, you can get some help this weekend at the Adventures in Travel Expo, which is coming to the Jacob Javits Convention Center October 10th and 11th.
This will be the third year in a row that I'll be attending, and I'm looking forward to it, as I always gather lots of good information on new places to see and things to do.
The travel seminars are my favorite part of the show. On Saturday, I plan to learn about biking and walking vacations in Tuscany, a talk given by the president of Vermont Bicycle Tours, and then I want to hear Arthur Frommer"s talk, "Traveling Better, Smarter, Cheaper in the Months Ahead." I guess we could all pick up some good tips in that one, right?
There will be many other interesting seminars this weekend as well, such as "Never Hug a Pregnant Tiger Shark: Adventure Do-s and Don't-s Learned the Hard Way" by Holly Morris, Host of Globe Trekker, and "1,000 Places to See Before You Die" given by Patricia Schultz, author of the book by the same name.
In addition to the seminars there will be hundreds of adventure travel exhibitors as well as live entertainment. African drummers, anyone? How about bellydancing, Irish or Indian dancing?, There will also be hands on activities such as climbing a rock wall and scuba diving in the indoor pool.
If you can make it to the show, go. If you love travel you'll be glad you did.
By the way, on the topic of planning vacations, I've been learning how to create a custom travel itinerary over at NileGuide.com, has anyone else done that yet? It's lots of fun. Since we're talking about New York City here, I want to let you know that I've finished my first custom itinerary called First Timers' New York City. Take a look at it and let me know which places you would choose for newcomers to the Big Apple.
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Photo courtesyof Adventures in Travel Expo.
Thanks, Sabina. I hope you get a chance to come back to New York City again soon.
Posted by: Melody | October 19, 2009 at 03:48 PM
Cool article about the event in travel segment. NYC is a great city I only visited once. That's why I use a travel site (www.checkmycity.com) to learn about it (and other cities) a bit more.
Posted by: Sabina | October 19, 2009 at 08:56 AM