Social media has replaced the paper postcard as a means to communicate with friends back home. Facebook in particular continues to let our friends and family know where we are, that we’re safe, we’re enjoying ourselves, and what we’re up to, in real time. And it’s not just about what we’re writing but also what we’re posting, such as movies, articles, and pictures, that help our friends and family travel and experience the destination vicariously. Facebook can also help us connect with locals when we’re traveling. While I was on Zoom Peru just a few weeks ago I posted...
Is cappuccino really better in Rome? Is ceviche really more tasty in Peru? Sometimes, when I am home, I get an uncontrollable yearning for food just the way I had it somewhere else; usually on a sunny beach, a 2,000 year old piazza, a crowded fragrant market, or in the kitchen of an attentive cook. My yearning is usually followed with the conviction that we just don’t know how to make a ceviche like they make it in Peru! Is it that the fish was literally caught hours ago off the coast of Lima, or is it that the limes...
As online reviews and reputations have become more and more important to the success of a business, new services have sprung up that offer restaurants, hotels, etc, the promise of overly-good reviews for them, and even overly-bad reviews for their competitors, often from reviewers who have never actually been to the destination.
