You know your country’s in dietary straits when the instructional food pyramid suddenly disappears like a Copperfield sarcophagus and—poof!—magically morphs into a plate. It’s the USDA’s answer to the failed Egyptian triangle stuffed with loin chops and yogurt, originally meant to instruct the general public on what to eat and how much each day,...
It’s a little known fact that hipsters drink more than basement brews, micro brews and anything else someone buys for us. On occasion, we’re known to sport our satin smoking jacket and sip some fancy red wine while thumbing through back-issues of The New Yorker. It’s our dirty little secret, one we don’t readily...
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Wonder what it takes to escape The Rock in San Francisco? Try several hundred travel professionals and a really large boat. Such was the scene at the U.S. Travel Association’s International Pow Wow after-hours event, held at the infamous island prison, Alcatraz, former home to notorious prisoners Al Capone, George “Machine Gun” Kelly, “Bumpy”...
The U.S. Travel Association wrapped up its largest annual tradeshow event this past week in San Francisco with more than 5,000 delegates from 70 countries in attendance. The four-day media marketplace brought together domestic and international journalists travel buyers and state tourism boards to mix and mingle at the Moscone Center and other landmark...
After Texas was treated like a criminal by the TSA — meaning it was treated like every airline passenger today — it backed down from making TSA groping illegal. Basically, the TSA threatened to close down every airport in the Lone Star State if it passed a law that say human dignity should be...
According to CheapCaribbean.com, the world’s best beaches are in the Turks and Caicos — apparently, these sandy areas are so good — the No. 2 spot doesn’t even exist, instead going straight to No. 3 best beaches in the world: Aruba. Now, HTG may not agree with this assessment, but we do like that...
The JW Marriott Cancun Resort & Spa and CasaMagna Marriott Cancun Resort is offering up a discount to visitors who travel in big groups — or at least need a second room. The resorts are offering 50 percent off of a connected room if you pay for the first room. That’s like two rooms...
It’s the city that put beatniks, sourdough bread and Rice-a-Roni on the map, and home to The Rock and all things hemp. It’s cold even when it’s warm, and on a clear day you can see fog. It’s San Francisco, and this weekend it plays host to the U.S. Travel Association’s annual Pow Wow,...
