Month: April 2017

Ocean view room at the W Bali. (Photo Credit: W Bali)

Hipster Luxury At The W Bali

The W Hotels and Resorts is renowned the world over for its ultra luxurious feel catering to young and hip travelers attracted to the social scene at the hotel’s bars and nightclubs that feature some of the hottest DJs around the world.

The W Bali Seminyak (Jl. Petitenget, Kerobokan, 877-946-8357 or +62 361 3000106, wretreatbali.com) in Seminyak, Bali in Indonesia isn’t any different. It’s “playful yet composed,” the Telegraph recently noted.

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Lead Passenger Service Agent Presad Rennie For American’s Regional Carrier Envoy Gains Angel And Hero Status For Saving A Baby (Photo: Courtesy of American Airlines)

American Airlines Bestows Hero Award To Presad Rennie

Envoy Lead Passenger Service Agent Presad Rennie didn’t think twice when she saw a toddler gasping for air and someone called out, “Does anyone know the Heimlich maneuver?”

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Unidentified woman and her two children speaking with the American Airlines’ captain during Friday’s incident where a flight attendant allegedly nearly struck her child and her with their stroller while boarding a flight from San Francisco International to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. (Photo: Facebook)

American Airlines Reacts Swiftly To Baby Stroller Incident

American Airlines launched an investigation and suspended the flight attendant accused of nearly hitting an infant with a stroller sending its mother into hysterical crying Friday, April 21.

Part of the incident was caught on video and posted to Facebook by Surain Adyanthaya with the caption: “OMG! AA Flight attendant violently took a stroller from a lady with her baby on my flight, hitting her and just missing the baby,” she captioned the clip.

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Girls get giddy in the Sprinkles Pool at the Museum of Ice Cream. (Photo: Pintrest)

A Sweet Treat. The Pop-Up Museum of Ice Cream Opens in Los Angeles.

Dive Into Sprinkles. Be The Banana Split. Get A Sugar High at The Museum of Ice Cream. by Heather Cassell Life is a bowl of ice cream with sprinkles on top, at least for the Museum of Ice Cream, which opens in Los Angeles, California April 22. The museum allows attendees to dive into a […]

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Young LGBTQI participants of Proactividad learn about the hospitality industry during an intensive introduction to hospitality and tourism during a job-training seminar at Villa La Pasarela at Casa de Campo in the Dominican Republic. (Photo: Nicole Clausing)

Ethical Travel in the Digital Age

Talk about a buzzkill.

I’m in the middle of a trip to the Dominican Republic. It’s a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex-themed trip, part of a program called Tolerance Through Tourism. The idea is that by simply being an openly gay person and traveling in the developing world, you help people living in traditionally homophobic cultures to see that LGBTQI people are not so strange.

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