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AirTreks Talks Travel With Pauline Frommer
Award-winning travel writer Pauline Frommer, daughter of guidebook pioneer and travel legend Arthur Frommer, does a weekly 2-hour radio show at WOR radio in New York City. We were delighted when on August 22nd she invited AirTreks VP Tom Michelson to chat with her over the phone about around-the-world travel.
Recently Pauline has been interested in how the movie Eat, Pray, Love has impacted long-term travel and around the-world trips in general. It has had an impact, no doubt about it, and with AirTreks leading the way selling these type of tickets, Pauline was especially interested in how we help travelers arrange trips like this.
Listen in on how their conversation went:
AirTreks Interview with Pauline Frommer by AirTreks
The recording above is a short part of that day’s entire program. To hear the show in its entirety or to download podcasts of any of her other Frommer Travel radio shows you can find them all in her archives. Check out all Ms. Frommer’s conversations with travel personalities and experts around the world as well. Or else tune in online – the show airs on Sundays at 10am.
You can also take the first step in starting your own around-the-world adventure. Click the red link below!
It’s safe to say that most people who visit this blog are travelers. Therefore if you’re reading this you probably have a humorous or harrowing story waiting in the wings about your experiences in the world, or else an article 
you feel would make life easier for the traveling public at large.
The AirTreks Travel Blog is accepting guest posts!
Now’s the time to submit your writing. If there’s something in your journal, a set of tips another traveler would love to hear or a story you’ve been itching to tell, share it with us.
This is your opportunity solicit your writing, your travels and your wisdom with the fabulous readers of the AirTreks Travel Blog.
In case you didn’t know, AirTreks has a partner for those in need of land arrangements: Global Basecamps, an environmentally aware, progressive company located in Encinitas, California who’s spent a great deal of time assembling a list of sustainable properties and activities all over the world, from eco-lodges to boutique hotels to small-ship cruising and excursions that will make your mouth water. All things to consider once your flight arrangements have been taken care of with AirTreks.
Global Basecamps has recently initiated a pair of cool promotional tours set up specifically for AirTreks clients. So if you buy an Airtrek you’re instantly entitled to special pricing on a couple of the world’s best adventures.
There are a thousand routes around the world. Ask a different traveler and you’ll get a different answer about which route is the best, which region is the most beautiful and which curry will most quickly light your mouth on fire.
But even with these voices, you still need a little objective advice to help make your decision the best one when planning a route of your own, the opinion of someone who has seen what travelers do and why. To help dampen the noise of popular opinion, I’ve assembled a helpful list of 5 different routes that make sense in getting you around the world.
The following trips are compiled with a few things in mind: price (overall cost-effectiveness), efficiency (fewer hours in the air), value (getting more for your money) and overall amazingness of the destinations (based on common perceptions of what’s cool in the world to visit).
These are in no particular order and arbitrarily go in an easterly direction, even though prices are typically similar regardless of which direction you travel. They all start in New York, for lack of a better starting point. Yours can start from wherever you happen to be.
Here we go!
Ah Facebook, that place we spend some 8 billion minutes everyday. Even if that’s not quite your total, take a look at the AirTreks page next time you’re aboard and give us a “like”. We’re not asking for 8 billion minutes, all it takes is one.
If you’re a traveler, especially a worldly one, and want to keep up to date on news and information related to international travel with beautiful pictures and trip suggestions, you’ll like the feed. Did we mention it’s free?
Join us. You can reach the page by clicking on the screenshot below.
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I officially have World Cup fever. While watching that heart-stopping match this morning between USA and Algeria, I got to thinking. The new stadiums of South Africa are stunning to say the least, massive, modern and worth seeing in person, without a doubt.
So what if I wanted to visit all the World Cup host nations around the world? Because I have a keen propensity to dream, I’ve put together a round-the-world ticket that goes to each host country to visit their beautiful cathedrals to soccer.
A quick note of public information: for the remainder of May until mid-June the AirTreks travel blog will be on a period of reduced activity in order to focus on the launch of our new website and me going to celebrate my marriage with a honeymoon in Croatia.
Until mid-June updates to the blog will be scant. But never fear, the AirTreks user experience will be back to form soon, and better than ever as soon as it does. We’re really liking our new look. We hope you do too.
Stay tuned for the new AirTreks.com. Looking forward to seeing you all back in June!
It was a tough week for my RSS reader, bulging at the seams, barely able to contain itself. Hence, I got a little behind reading it all, but you, dear reader, get it sorted for your pleasure.
Here’s what I’ve been reading on the web!
AirTreks is the worldwide leader in providing customized, efficient, and affordable air travel solutions for complex international trips. Specializing in around-the-world trips and in business since 1987, we are based in downtown San Francisco.
As a travel consultant, you will work with our travelers to optimize their choices of airlines, routes, and fares. We are looking for self-motivated, world savvy travelers or travel enthusiasts from all business backgrounds. While previous travel agency experience is not required, it is helpful. Sales experience and college degrees are preferred.
As this is a sales job, pay will be commission-based after the first three months. The first weeks will consist of an in-house training program, there is no cold-calling and it’s a fun place to work. You must be able to work well in a team and establish rapport with customers over the phone. Our travel consultants typically make $45K – $85K in their first year of employment on commission.
AirTreks is an exciting, high-growth work environment with opportunity for advancement as the company expands its presence domestically and internationally. Benefits: medical, 401K, employee stock options, travel discounts.
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The around the world travel idea has been popping up a lot lately, and outside its admittedly tight-knit circles. More and more people are pushing the comfortable borders of Europe when not more 
than 20 years ago only the most adventurous American would consider traveling elsewhere. These days anywhere is fair game.
Yes, people are finally envisioning a vastly larger destination palate. Landscapes with hugely exotic sights and sounds are available without the extra effort that was formerly obligatory. The digital age has shown us just how small our world can be and our ability to get there is changing Disney World into Real World with an ease our parents would have been jealous of.
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