Hugh Crean is the general manager of Bing Travel, Microsoft's new travel search engine. Microsoft is trying to chip away at Google's search engine dominance, and Bing Travel is part of a multi-pronged effort that also includes shopping and health-related microsites. Crean's ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Bing Travel: "We save the average couple $50 per trip"
Hugh Crean is the general manager of Bing Travel, Microsoft's new travel search engine. Microsoft is trying to chip away at Google's search engine dominance, and Bing Travel is part of a multi-pronged effort that also includes shopping and health-related microsites. Crean's ...Costello: "The traveling public cannot be ignored any longer"
Jerry Costello is the co-sponsor of the FAA Reauthorization Bill of 2009, which contains several important new rules designed to help air travelers. I asked the Illinois congressman, who is also the chairman of the House Aviation Subcommittee, about passenger rights and the ...Crop circles are back!
Remember crop circles, those strange shapes that started appearing in the Nineties in fields all across England? We haven't heard much about them lately, but according to an article in the Guardian's G2 magazine, this year hikers in England's beautiful countryside should see ...American Airlines' Mitchell: We want to give passengers "what they value most"
Mark Mitchell, American Airlines' managing director of customer experience, is the point man for customer service at the airline. With the summer travel season now underway, I asked him how air travelers could have the best possible experience, and what airlines like ...Talking Travel with with Karen Schaler, author of "Travel Therapy: Where Do You Need to Go?
Karen Schaler is the author of Travel Therapy: Where Do You Need to Go? A former embedded war correspondent in Afghanistan, she's experienced the highs and lows of travel. I asked her how to get the most out of your next vacation. Schaler: It's all about changing your ...US Airways customer service director: À la carte fees are the only way forward
John Romantic is the director of customer relations and central baggage resolution at US Airways. But he'd prefer that you simply think of him as your advocate at the airline. For the last nine months, he's had the unenviable job of improving the carrier's checkered ...Talking Travel with Equitrekking's Darley Newman and Chip Ward
Rosetta Stone's Adams: World travelers should learn Spanish, Chinese
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International travelers know what a formidable barrier a foreign language can be. From time to time, language spills over into the headlines - as it did last week when Fidel Castro insisted his brother's comments about political reform in Cuba were "misunderstood." Tom Adams ...Talking Travel with GuideGecko.com
A few weeks ago, the world wide web saw the launch of a most useful travel resource called GuideGecko.com. Guide Gecko hopes to serve the dual purpose as an online bookstore and independent travel writing recruiter. The site's mastermind, Daniel Quadt, spent the past year ...Talking Travel with Road Trip USA writer Jamie Jensen
Avalon travel writer Jamie Jensen, whose travel guidebook, Road Trip USA, hit book stands earlier this month, took time from his busy book tour to answer a few questions about travel, writing, and road tripping across the country. Don't forget to enter the Gadling Giveaway ...Talking Travel (and Cuba) with award-winning travel journalist Christopher P. Baker
Christopher Baker is the 2008 Lowell Thomas Travel Journalist of the Year and has visited Cuba more than 30 times. He's personally met with Fidel Castro, as well as leading members of the Cuban government and is personally acquainted with key figures within Cuba as well as ...Talking travel with David Grann
David Grann, author of the now New York Times Bestselling book "The Lost City of Z" and contributor to various publications such as The New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, and Boston Globe, was gracious enough to set aside some precious time to correspond with me via email to ...Talking Travel with Pico Iyer and a book give-away
When I first read Pico Iyer's book Video Night in Kathmandu, I was hooked. Reading Iyer's words is a trip down streets that you may have traveled before but have not found the words to describe. When you read his prose, the tendency is to say, "Yes, that's it." For places ...A Self Indulgent Interview with Helen Zille, Mayor of Cape Town, South Africa
I won't interview just anyone. I'm Mike Barish, after all. I like to speak with dynamic, interesting, foward-thinking people who fascinate me. In the past, I interviewed Mike Lee, head of one of the country's most exciting and up-and-coming underground eating clubs.
This ...Talking Travel with Tim Ferriss (again) about his new TV show: Trial By Fire
Tim Ferriss has come a long way since we first interviewed him a year and a half ago. His book, The Four Hour Work Week, was released in the wild where it quickly rocketed to the top of all the Best Seller lists. So we weren't too surprised when we learned of his new TV ...Talking Travel with Tim Patterson
Tim Patterson comes from the Rolf Potts School of travel writing-- thoughtful, funny, and talented. But above all else, he's a traveler.
It seems Tim is constantly on the move, whether it's to Cambodia, Bhutan, or Uruguay. He shares his love for travel on a number of sites, ...Talking travel with the mayor of Stockholm
I think everyone pretty much has a crush on the Swedes. It's been towards the top of my must-see destinations for a long time. Here to talk about his favorite city--and his homeland--is the mayor of Stockholm, Sten Nordin. Why Stockholm now? Stockholm is at its most ...Talking Travel with Rolf Potts, author of the new book "Marco Polo Didn't Go There"
Rolf Potts has inspired more people to travel than any writer working today. His first book Vagabonding motivated my first long-term trip, and I've run into countless travelers who have said the same thing.
Rolf's newest book is a collection of stories called Marco Polo ...Talking travel with Paul Theroux (Part 2)
In Part 1 of Gadling's conversation with novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux, the author of the recent Ghost Train to the Eastern Star talked about growing older and the importance of the return journey. In Part 2, America's most famous travel writer takes on India, ...Talking travel with Paul Theroux
In 1973, Paul Theroux took a trip that changed both his life and the course of modern travel writing. The Great Railway Bazaar, an account of nearly four months of train travel from London to Japan and back, has been essential reading ever since. Now comes Ghost Train to the ...
