Archive for July, 2012
Travel Today: Saint John, New Brunswick Podcast
It’s Travel Tuesday, which means that there’s a new episode of Travel Today with Peter Greenberg available for download. Click here to download the podcast. Travel Today is a streamlined podcast of all the travel news you can use: process, destinations and Peter’s Travel Detective investigative reports. This week Peter explores the city of Saint John in [...]
Will Artificial Intelligence Improve Airport Service? A CBS This Morning Report
A lot has been said about the decline in airport customer service, but three airports in the New York area, plus Washington Dulles International Airport and Boston’s Logan International Airport now have customer service representatives who are always polite and never take breaks. What’s the catch? They are computer avatars. It remains to be seen if [...]
Voluntourism Spotlight: Nevada Bird Habitat Project
Casinos may be the obvious attraction of Nevada tourism, but there is more to the state than testing your luck at the slots. In this week’s Voluntourism Spotlight, find out how you can give back more than just your gambling losses. Learn how you can enrich the state’s ecosystem with WorkingAbroad Project’s program with the [...]
London 2012 Insider’s Guide: Finding Unsold Tickets & Unsung Events
The Olympics are in full swing. Now that the fireworks of the Opening Ceremony have come and gone, has London’s overall plan come together? Correspondent Phil Wallace is on the ground at the Games. Find out why a surprising number of seats appear vacant, how to glimpse the Olympic Village without a ticket, and if [...]
Travel Tip: Learning the Basics of Hang Gliding or Paragliding
Want to know what it feels like to fly like a bird? Then try your hand at free-flight hang gliding or paragliding. As a beginner, you will want to first fly tandem with an expert. The Jackson Hole Mountain Resort in Wyoming runs a tandem paragliding program that takes you above the Rockies for spectacular [...]
Peter Greenberg Worldwide–Saint John, New Brunswick–July 28, 2012
Peter Greenberg Worldwide broadcast from the Hilton Saint John. Download the full show right here on PeterGreenberg.com. Click here to see the guest list. Then travel along with Peter to the Bay of Fundy as you watch his new Like a Local video series. If you want all the latest on Saint John travel streamlined into [...]
Olympic Travel Takeaway: Introducing the Olympic Traveler Profile
Prior to the start of the 2012 Olympic Games, the Travel Detective crunched the numbers. Turns out that when hosting the Olympics a country stands to lose more than it will gain. And far from turning around a city or country’s economy, the Olympics instead create a market of dramatic fluctuations in travel price. So [...]
Is the 787 Dreamliner Safe? A CBS This Morning Report
This past weekend a test flight of Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner raised new concerns about the aircraft’s safety and design. During the test at a Charleston, South Carolina airport, engine parts fell to the ground causing a grass fire and closing the airport for more than an hour. No one was hurt during the incident, but [...]
