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Mary Beth Bond, Gutsy Traveler, adds The Women's Travel Group to her 'Good Housekeeping' List
Long the leading women’s travel writer and adventurer, Mary Beth Bond added our group to her list of top women’s travel companies. We read her Gutsytraveler.com site daily and always learn. Mary Beth speaks at major women’s events and you will never be disappointed. Check out her books and site frequently, and recommend her to friends. Contact her directly if you wish a fine speaker.…
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Where is The Women's Travel Club?
Some history: The Club was founded by Phyllis Stoller in 1992. It grew into a national organization with accolades and awards. In 2006 Phyllis sold the Club to ABC Destinations, a group tour company. The new owners closed all their businesses in October 2012, including our wonderful Women’s Travel Club.
We reopened as The Women’s Travel Group, same people, same themes with a slight twist. We are now offering longer, more in depth tours with ‘smart itineraries’. We are the only women’s travel group to identify this new untapped area: college educated women who want to learn as well as have fun and who want a more comprehensive tour about the country and its people.…
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The Women's Travel Group Fitness on the Road Tips
Some of these tips are from a ‘Times’ article. Hotel room exercises include:
lunges, squats, with the use of the hotel iron as an arm weight. Use the chair to stretch your back and waist by twisting and holding onto the opposite sides. The bed makes a good bar for triceps push ups and soft sit ups. Even if you hate exercise, do some stretching in bed after a long flight. The move onto to floor with a towel as a matt, and continue with your stretches.… -
What We Learned at The New York Times Travel Show
Women want smarter tours. They told us that free time, shopping with the guide, cooking and hobby type classes are not what they want to pay $$ for in a tour. We learned that many former Women’s Travel Club members miss our type of quality vacation and that the word is spreading.
We realized that our Yunnan tour was not geographically understood. Yunnan is North of Nepal and West of Burma, fyi. It is minority, tribal and Himalayan China, a trip for the second time visit to China.…
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Come Visit Us At The New York Times Travel Show
At the SITA World Tours Booth. Just back with 22 women from Ixtapan Spa, lots of interest in our new trips and in reunions with fellow travelers from our Club days. Here is me with a mouth full of guacamole at our farewell party and a necklace from a China trip with Women’s Travel Club, our first incarnation.…
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A checklist for brochure vocabulary from The Women's Travel Group
The Women’s Travel Group, a specialty tour operator for women, offers this vocabulary checklist to all women travelers who want a smart trip!
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1. How many days are ‘drive by or city tours‘? Try for the minimum but do not miss city highlights.
2. Do the tours contain the words: ‘ceremony, lesson, museum and private visit‘? It is a good sign if they do.
3. The word ‘options‘: many options means you have under budgeted your vacation.… -
New York Times Travel Show and www.thewomenstravelgroup.com
Hi all,
If you plan on coming to the show, stop by the booth of Sita World Tours and find Phyllis Stoller. She will be there on and off and would love to meet you. Bring your travel questions and dreams.… -
Women's Travel Resolutions for 2013
Booking Now for Yunnan Province and Shanghai May 2013
1–Eat better on trips and on the plane.
2–Read 2 good books about the destination, not just think about it.
3–Avoid all shopping until the very end of the day when acquisition energy kicks in, after cultural energy has waned.
4–Only pack what I need and budget for some laundry en route.
5–Scan my passport photo into my email account.
6–Plan ahead and get guidebooks from the e-library on line.
7–Leave the camera home, just bring a phone camera
8–Pay on line for all upcoming bills even if I pay early.… -
Thewomenstravelgroup.com tip to check flights, when uncertainties prevail
We all know how to call the airline or look on the web. But say your arrival airport might be closed for snow or strikes? Here is a way to check the status. Go to any flight tracking site, enter the flight arrivals same day from your destination airport. Example: flying to London on Dec. 20 with possible JFK handlers strike. Check flight arrivals on Dec. 20 into JFK to see if flights are landing on time and on schedule. This way you will get a real time accurate picture of the situation.…
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10 Carry On Tips for Women with Bad Backs
1-Light luggage. British IT-0-1 is the lightest and can be found at discounters
2- Cole Hahn or Ecco walking shoes rather than heavy Rockport types.
3- Toms or Espadrilles for extra footwear. Cheap flats for evenings if no walking involved.
4- Most personal products can be bought everywhere, people do wash their hair and moisturize their skin outside the US. Bring what you need the first night.
5- Nylon not cotton underwear, same with socks.
6-Tailored hiking pants in dark colors rather than jeans.…