If you’re familiar with the Meliá Hotels family of brands, then you already know about their exceptional service and their phenomenal locations in city centers, bucolic countrysides, and sandy beaches around the world. And, of course, you’ve experienced or heard about their signature …
By Eric Hrubant You may have heard one of our CIRE team talk about a “FAM” trip. FAM is short for “familiarization” and is industry slang for an educational trip. Travel advisors are invited on FAM trips so that they can personally experience hotels, airlines, …
By Jamie Edwards My travel wish list lives on my iPhone in my Notes app. It’s a disorganized and chaotic inventory of places I’d like to visit one day. The list has been curated from sources like Condé Nast Traveler, Afar Magazine, and …
Summer is here! And with it, the busy summer travel season. We recently published an article by our wayfaring client and on-going CIRE Travel Journal contributor, Jamie Edwards, with her best travel tips, tricks and hacks. This week, we’re sharing 13 more travel …
Pink sand beaches. A freshwater swimming pool. Smiling bartenders at the handcrafted tiki bar serving legit Goombay Smashes. Eleven Experiences’ Bahama House is a tropical oasis located on Harbour Island, known as the “Nantucket of the Caribbean.” With only a few thousand residents …
As the weather starts to get warmer, what says “summertime” more than a day on the water? Well, how about a week on the water? Or two weeks! Chartering a private yacht for your luxury summer vacation is as unique as it is …
By Jamie Edwards Who thinks about the holidays before summer has even officially started? Santa, surely. Maybe his elves and a few antsy reindeer. But oh-ho-ho…perhaps there is another group of uber-planners who want to get ahead of their holiday to-do lists—adventure travelers. …
Vietnam’s capital city, Hanoi, sits in the country’s far north and is an intoxicating blend of modernity and old-world charm. On the streets and boulevards of this historic city, scooters jostle for space, and the tooting of horns is a constant backdrop to …
We’re just wrapping up Spring Break Season at CIRE. Mexico, Costa Rica, Europe and the Caribbean topped the list this year (and most years). CIRE’s Jason Villacres hit the beach for an unforgettable Spring Break educational trip to the Dominican Republic with our …
If you ask CIRE president, Eric Hrubant, to name some of his favorite hotels in Europe off the top of his head, he doesn’t hesitate. “Brown’s in London, The Balmoral in Edinburgh, and Verdura Resort in Sicily. Verdura is one of those places …
