I tell you, Pumpkins, Rob Ford is a hot tourism ticket. He is too sexy for his town. Too sexy for this town. As sexy as a clown. Apparently international visitors to the big smoke have hit an all-time high.…
Three gold medals for women’s teams in 2 days – Holy Hat Trick, Pumpkins! Canadian girls got rocks. And sticks. And sleds. Who’s Bob? Those puppies should be called Bertasleds. Good god, people – this just in! A gold and…
In the ‘get over yourself’ department – a group of über-digital dudes have made up a word dahrlings (who does that?). It’s ‘digilution’ – used in the context of the digilution of travel. I think it refers to the digital…
In the family fun department, Pumpkins, the Danes are onto a fab new tourism concept. It goes something like this: shoot a baby giraffe in between the eyes, then skin and butcher it into lion size chunks in front…
Yesterday Putin nestled a leopard in his lap for the cameras – ostensibly to show his cuddly side. The leopard then turned on the journalists, biting and scratching them — demonstrating once again, dahrlings, that a big pussy in the…
Billions of Chinese are crisscrossing the country as we speak, Pumpkins. Planes, trains, automobiles and cruise lines are adding capacity as fast as you can say Gung Hey Fat Choi! The New Year celebrations in China last 40 days.…
It’s really no wonder I’m feeling psychopathologically unbalanced these days, Pumpkins. One minute I read that travel agents are as unwanted as an aging diva at her hunky chauffeur’s stag party. (I’m sure he said I could come.) And the…
You know what your problem is, Pumpkins? Time. Selling travel is probably the biggest time suck on the planet. That’s why you don’t have any. Explaining and encouraging, in great detail, how, where, why, when and which way –…
I used to really be into selfies, Pumpkins, but now I find my hand gets tired. Even the battery operated toys bore me. Ha! Bore me! Never mind. But I really don’t know what all the fuss is about taking…
Well Pumpkins, if we’ve heard it once, we’ve heard it a thousand times – Book Early! Our resorts are being overrun by Russians, South Americans, and gasp … Americans. They’re back. Sunwing’s dahrling Dawson (the coy little thing knows…
