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Steve Gillick is a travel industry specialist with a wide range of interests and experiences. He has over 30 years of travelling, speaking, writing, training, presenting and promoting what he refers to as ‘infectious enthusiasm about travel’. Formerly the president of CITC, Steve is currently the president of TalkingTravel.ca, a professional development consultancy. TRAVELLING THE WORLD FOR COMIC RELIEFManga, Bugs, Waldo, Godzilla and You
17 MAY 2013: On my first trip to New York City, sometime in the early 1980’s I walked into an art gallery that featured a display of Disney cartoons in the front window. There was a great piece that featured Bugs Bunny lounging by the side of a road and munching a carrot, while on the road Elmer Fudd chased Daffy Duck and Wile E. Coyote chased the Roadrunner.
DISCOVERING UZBEKISTAN2800 Years in the Making
26 APR 2013: Uzbekistan is one of only two double land-locked countries in the world (countries that are themselves surrounded by landlocked countries). The former Soviet Republic, which attained Independence in 1991, lies just north of Afghanistan and borders on Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
EXPLORING THE ENTRANCE TO THE MOUNTAIN FORESTSatisfying Niche Interests in Yamaguchi
19 APR 2013: Yamaguchi prefecture is tucked away in the north-north east corner of Honshu Island, in the Chugoku region of Japan. It’s an area in which one can absolutely fascinate over the small towns, history, nature and ambiance, before continuing eastward toward Kyushu to explore its own bounties of pottery, fugu snacks and the fiery attractions of volcanoes, mud baths and shochu (Kyushu’s home grown alcoholic beverage of choice).
GAMES PEOPLE PLAYImpacting training through Gamification
01 APR 2013: There are usually two meanings for the expression “games people play”. One refers to the cynical head games that some people play in order to induce sympathy, feed their ego, confuse, obfuscate, humour and more.
TIME TRAVELA Timely Pursuit
04 MAR 2013: The movie, “If it’s Tuesday, this must be Belgium” appeared on theatre screens in 1969. I know, because I saw it then and based on my own travels in Europe two years earlier, the scenario of a group of disparate travellers travelling on an 18-day, 9-country tour from London to Rome, certainly rang true.
HEY RBC. WHAT GIVESTransit Ads Celebrate Online Bookings
11 FEB 2013: After renewing my passport last week, I took the Toronto Transit Commission subway home and there in front of me was an ad from RBC Direct Investing. Next to a graphic of a Polynesian-type woman wearing a purple skirt, a Lei around her neck, and playing a ukulele (is this an archaic stereotype?) was the caption:
FROM HERE TO TIMBUKTUWhy we should care about Mali
07 FEB 2013: The poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson asked if the rumour of Timbuctoo was as frail as those of ancient time. Shortly after Tennyson wrote the poem, Timbuctoo, the western world started to search for the illusive, hidden and mystical destination. Now we use the name of the city, alternately spelled as Timbuktu, Timbuctoo, Tombouctou, as a euphemism for the last place on earth one could possible travel; hence the expression “from here to Timbuktu”.
RUSSIAN TO GET THEREYou should be
24 JAN 2012: The Russian Federation is gearing up to increase the number of Canadian travellers so they can enjoy and thrill to the country’s amazing sites, cities, adventure activities as well as experience not only the iconic past but also a promising future.
GLOBALSPEAKRelationship Building before and after the Internet
16 JAN 2013: A common concern amongst travellers is that they don’t speak the language at the destination and therefore they fear that they will get caught up in a Tower of Babel as they try to check into the hotel, order food, engage the taxi driver or even negotiate their way into and then out of the country. It is fairly cut and dried. You either speak Igpo (as do roughly 24 million people in Nigeria) or the other 7000 global languages, or you don’t.
YOU SAY YOU WANT A RESOLUTIONRandom thoughts from a travel coach
07 JAN 2013: Predicting the future has become the mainstay of political pundits and travel soothsayers, alike. Everyone likes to get their thoughts on record, just in case it turns out that there is some similarity between what they said would happen, and what actually happens down the road. We can thank Nostradamus for bringing the predictions game into popularity (or notoriety) despite the fact that he died 446 years ago, but we can also thank CNN and others for keeping the tradition alive, all in the spirit of providing sound bites and creating an aura of intellectual prescience where, in many cases, none really exists.
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