VisitBritain is the latest tourist board to realize that many travellers are hungry to meet locals and get off the beaten path while travelling. Its Be a Brit Different website includes blog posts from enthusiastic Britons about their favourite places and activities. According to the Modern Agent website, VisitBritain also has a plan to promote […]
Rentalo.com, the vacation home rental giant, has just relaunched its website. The home page is still incredibly busy–woe betide folks (like me, ahem) who find it hard to read tiny fonts–but there are a lot of useful changes. In particular for travellers who like to live “la vida local,” it’s now easier to distinguish vacation […]
The Vacation Home Expo is coming back to the Cobb Galleria Convention Centre in the Atlanta ‘burbs, from January 23 to 25, 2009. I attended the inaugural show in April 2008 and found it a useful way to gather information on a wide range of vacation home rental companies. Granted, many of the exhibitors were […]
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