Tagged: escorted-tours

G Adventures Restricts Many Tours to the Vaccinated, Helps Guides Get Jabs

Responding to what it calls a high demand for escorted tours that are restricted to vaccinated travelers and guides, the influential small-group tour company G Adventures, which runs…

Is It Wise to Book Group Tours at This Time? Our Advice

Even in the best of times, group tours are tremendously complicated travel products. A tour company not only has to create an appealing itinerary. It must also arrange for all…

What Escorted Tour Companies Are Doing to Keep Travelers Safe

August 3, 2020 Many travelers are fans of tours, both for their convenience and their conviviality. But the major problem with group tours during a pandemic is right there in the…

Arthur Frommer: This Is Surely the Year's Greatest Travel Bargain!

About a dozen years ago, a tour operator called China Spree, headed by a Chinese-American expert, astonished the travel world by charging only $999 for a one-week stay in Beijing…

Shutterbug: Shoot and See Great Photography In New York City

The New York skyline may very well be one of the most photographed views in the world, but every street and corner in The Big Apple is ripe for the taking. If you're a photo buff,…

Should the Travel Industry End Its War on Smokers?

Haven't smokers suffered enough already? You can't help but wonder when you talk with someone like Efrin Knight, a French professor from Miami who enjoys an occasional cigar. "It's…

Checking It Out: Knowing If A Travel Operator is Legit

 It happens all the time: you see a great fare, a terrific fare, an impossible fare. But that fare is from Joe Schmo Travel, which you've never heard of. How can you figure out whether…