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Steve GillickSteve Gillick, is president of the Canadian Institute of Travel Counsellors (CITC). EAT OUTCulinary Travel Profiling
16 AUG 2010: Let’s face it. Returning from a wonderful holiday is the biggest argument for travelling again. But even more so for those who indulge in what has been referred to as ‘gastronomic’ or ‘culinary’ or ‘digestive’ or just plain ‘food’ tourism. Food TV has pushed food tourism out of its ‘niche’ status and now it resides as a mainstream reason for travel.
TAKING YOUR LIFE IN YOUR HANDSPracticing to be a Dissuasion Specialist
12 JUL 2010: I did not get mugged. I did not get sick from the food or the water. I did not contract malaria. I did not shut myself into my hotel room for 24 hours a day. I had a great time, met some great people, took 2,468 photos, and I can’t wait to return.
SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I GOSafety is relative
07 JUN 2010: If I go there will be trouble / An’ if I stay it will be double / So come on and let me know / Should I stay or should I go? Some songs, even The Clash’s 1981 hit, have that uncanny ability to key into issues that affect our lives and often cause us to transfer the message of the song to other matters that are top-of-mind. And in this case, it’s ‘travel’.
LIKE MEETING AN OLD FRIENDNothing beats education-on-location
10 MAY 2010: Excuse me for being a bit pedantic but the Turkey jokes and puns have got to stop. Turkey was not named after the Thanksgiving bird. In the Turkish language, the word “turk” means ‘strong’, but the actual origin of the country name is believed to originate from the Chinese phrase “tu-küe”, which, according to language expert Glen Dixon, meant “People of the Earth” and may have been first used to refer to the Mongols who occupied the area of present day Turkey in the 13th Century under the leadership of Genghis Khan.
TOURIST OR TRAVELLERLooking beyond the obvious
12 APR 2010: I was intrigued to receive an email recently where, under the signature, there was a presumably rhetorical question: “Are you a tourist or a traveller?” It is an interesting question but perhaps not as rhetorical, as it is misguided or on the wrong track.
THE 7 SENSE SOLUTIONSelling the Travel Experience
15 MAR 2010: When you are a travel addict, you tend to travelize everything around you. In other words, you see the world through ‘travel eyes”. Years ago, when I was a tour operator, conducting training sessions for the tour guides, I would ask the group to tell me the meaning of the expression “Eyes that travel, see”. (It is a bit of Maasai (or Massai, or Masai) tribal wisdom, passed on through generations).
THE TRAVEL COACHInfectious Enthusiasm
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