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Are you ready to handicap the New York Times 52 List of Places to Go in 2025 with me?

Quick refresher.

Dec 27, 2024

Are you ready to handicap the New York Times 52 List of Places to Go in 2025 with me?

Dec 27, 2024

New Orleans is America’s most intriguing city.

It’s the home of jazz, the archetype for culinary travel, a magnet for creative types born to the womb or bred to the lure: John James…

Dec 12, 2024

New Orleans is America’s most intriguing city.

Dec 12, 2024

It’s 6,374 miles from Asheville, North Carolina to Baku, Azerbaijan.

We are slow to think this way.

Nov 28, 2024

It’s 6,374 miles from Asheville, North Carolina to Baku, Azerbaijan.

Nov 28, 2024

I n Western North Carolina, the 40 days and nights between the end of September and the start of…

A year before Hurricane Helene, UN Secretary-General António Guterres opened the first Global Ambition Summit in New York by declaring that…

Nov 14, 2024

I n Western North Carolina, the 40 days and nights between the end of September and the start of…

Nov 14, 2024

In this second of four postings about Tropical Storm Helene in western North Carolina, which…

“BeLoved Asheville does great community work and supports those who need it most. Many people, businesses, and organizations have also…

Nov 1, 2024

In this second of four postings about Tropical Storm Helene in western North Carolina, which…

Nov 1, 2024

You can add Asheville and Buncombe County in post-Helene North Carolina to a growing number of…

The other four places I’ve short-listed for a project I’m advancing are Denver, Vancouver, destinations of The Nature Conservancy, and hold…

Oct 18, 2024

You can add Asheville and Buncombe County in post-Helene North Carolina to a growing number of…

Oct 18, 2024

I f Hurricane Helene left the East Coast with anything funny behind, it had to be a blog by retired…

Studied ignorance is the political gift that keeps on giving,” Ron wrote.

Oct 4, 2024

I f Hurricane Helene left the East Coast with anything funny behind, it had to be a blog by retired…

Oct 4, 2024

This fortnightly posting links to an essay I was invited to submit for publication by Travel Weekly.

Sep 19, 2024

This fortnightly posting links to an essay I was invited to submit for publication by Travel Weekly.

Sep 19, 2024

I watch a family of young adults stew chip-chip, colorful tiny clams collected from the sea edge…

For eating, you scoop steaming mouthfuls with pulled-apart wedges of roti prepared in beachfront house kitchens.

Sep 5, 2024

I watch a family of young adults stew chip-chip, colorful tiny clams collected from the sea edge…

Sep 5, 2024

Locals kept getting into the ride with me.

“Some watah?” one with his granny asks from a Nissan pickup. “Maybe a lift in the back? I saw you strugglin’ wid yu bags. Can I give you a…

Aug 22, 2024

Locals kept getting into the ride with me.

Aug 22, 2024

Along streets in Chaguanas, Trinidad’s largest city, makeshift stands of pegboard lined up with…

While I devoured a breakfast roti with green dasheen leaves and curried tofu — filling for TT$8 — about US$1.25 — I sat beside a one-chair…

Aug 8, 2024

Along streets in Chaguanas, Trinidad’s largest city, makeshift stands of pegboard lined up with…

Aug 8, 2024

(This is the first in a series of excerpts from my travel memoir, After Overtourism; Reimagining…

Years after cycling Trinidad the moment hangs full in the mind like a cluster of ripe papaya, like the fast flutter of feeding…

Jul 25, 2024

(This is the first in a series of excerpts from my travel memoir, After Overtourism; Reimagining…

Jul 25, 2024

This fortnightly posting appeared first at The Good Tourism Blog July 2 under the heading “Climate…

Introduction

Jul 11, 2024

This fortnightly posting appeared first at The Good Tourism Blog July 2 under the heading “Climate…

Jul 11, 2024

Early in January of this year I wrote the essay below that appeared at The “Good Tourism” Blog…

People love to travel but keep getting shoved around. We live in an epoch of catastrophic global warming, which frequently forces us to…

Jun 27, 2024

Early in January of this year I wrote the essay below that appeared at The “Good Tourism” Blog…

Jun 27, 2024

I f a company operating in the European Union uses the terms “climate change” or “climate action”…

On the other hand, companies that operate transparently will spell out how climate language is replacing how we used to talk about change…

Jun 13, 2024

I f a company operating in the European Union uses the terms “climate change” or “climate action”…

Jun 13, 2024

Guyana is a Caribbean nation firmly attached to South America.

Venezuela claims two-thirds of Guyana’s mass, and Suriname a small portion. Negotiations have mostly superseded border actions.

May 30, 2024

Guyana is a Caribbean nation firmly attached to South America.

May 30, 2024

I was on a rare family vacation in 1973 when I worked for the Caribbean Travel Association while my…

I knew many Haitians including Theo Duval, the highly educated and complex but accessible tourism functionary under president Jean-Claude…

May 16, 2024

I was on a rare family vacation in 1973 when I worked for the Caribbean Travel Association while my…

May 16, 2024

[My thanks to activist filmmaker Esther Figueroa of Jamaica and Hawaii for the introduction to…

O n April 21st, the Jamaica Gleaner reported that PM Andrew Holness was warned by senior figures of his Jamaica Labor Party either to…

May 2, 2024

[My thanks to activist filmmaker Esther Figueroa of Jamaica and Hawaii for the introduction to…

May 2, 2024

There are reasons why Jamaica and much of the Caribbean should not have relied on mass tourism for…

As the founder of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, scholar-historian Eric E. Williams exposed 90 years ago with publication of…

Apr 18, 2024

There are reasons why Jamaica and much of the Caribbean should not have relied on mass tourism for…

Apr 18, 2024

Jamaica’s samfie men — and women — are playing a modernization game while the country needs to be…

Would-be visitors are disserved; especially those that according to the Visit Jamaica website should meet Jamaicans in their villages…

Apr 4, 2024

Jamaica’s samfie men — and women — are playing a modernization game while the country needs to be…

Apr 4, 2024

Herb Hiller

Herb Hiller

Writer, posts 1st and 3rd Thursday monthly; Climate Action Advocate, Placemaker, Leisure Travel & Alternate Tourism Authority

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