Encore: How Entrepreneur Grace McBride Built Two Successful Travel Businesses

Grace McBride got her start in the travel industry earlier than most — as an undergraduate at Cornell University. During her sophomore year, McBride worked as a marketing intern for JetBlue, where she helped write marketing and ad copy for the airline. After catching the travel bug, she joined Mile…

InteleTravel’s Tara Minson on How the ‘Goliath of the Travel Industry’ Welcomes New Advisors

Tara Minson refers to InteleTravel, a host agency supporting over 100,000 travel advisors, as the "Goliath" of the travel industry — and with good reason. Not only does the host agency have the largest network of advisors, but she also credits the company with bringing the most new agents into the …

Humans in the Hot Seat: Jessica Brown on Building a Business for Black Travelers, Single Parents and Caregivers

Welcome to Humans in the Hot Seat, a spinoff series of Humans of Travel. This is Emma Weissmann, Executive Editor at TravelAge West, and your host. Over the coming weeks, we will be interviewing the travel advisors named in the "5 Future Leaders to Watch List," the cover story within the October 2…

An Inside Look at Theresa Curbelo's Group Booking Effort in Ireland

Welcome to Humans in the Hot Seat, a spinoff series of Humans of Travel. This is Emma Weissmann, Executive Editor at TravelAge West, and your host. Over the coming weeks, we will be interviewing the finalists of the TravelAge West Trendsetter Awards, which were created to acknowledge the work of e…

Encore: Explorers Club Member J.R. Harris on Living Life as a Curious Trekker

“I have never been lonely when alone in the wilderness.” So says J.R. Harris, a worldwide adventure trekker and a member of the prestigious Explorers Club, a global professional society of leaders that have ventured to the farthest reaches of the world, and beyond. (Other notable members include A…

Humans in the Hot Seat: The Women Behind the Taylor Swift Affinity Cruise That Took the World By Storm

Welcome to Humans in the Hot Seat, a spinoff series of Humans of Travel. This is Emma Weissmann, Executive Editor at TravelAge West, and your host. Over the coming weeks, we will be interviewing the finalists of the TravelAge West Trendsetter Awards, which were created to acknowledge the work of e…

Entrepreneur Alle Pierce on Storytelling, Authenticity and Creating Community Through Travel

Alle Pierce is an Emmy award-winning host, travel influencer, river cruise ship Godmother and founder of Gals Abroad Getaways, a travel company that designs group trips for like-minded women. Before diving into the travel industry, Pierce built a successful career in broadcast journalism as a loca…

Encore: Industry Veteran Rose Gray Offers Her Best Advice to New Travel Agents

Rose Gray, the business relationship director at Fox World Travel, got her start in the travel industry by walking into the agency her family used for their own personal vacations, and convincing them to hire her. At the time, she says that travel advisors were more “order-takers” and less “consult…

Humans in the Hot Seat: Lainey Melnick Orchestrated Her Clients' Dream Antarctica Wedding

Welcome to Humans in the Hot Seat, a spinoff series of Humans of Travel. This is Emma Weissmann, Executive Editor at TravelAge West, and your host. Over the coming weeks, we will be interviewing the finalists of the TravelAge West Trendsetter Awards, which were created to acknowledge the work of e…

Encore: How Karmia Berry Is Helping Youth Communities Travel Abroad

In addition to being a model, actress and licensed therapist, New Yorker Karmia Berry has always had a love for travel. In 2017, Berry decided to merge this love with her more than 25 years of experience working with youth communities by creating I Am C.U.L.T.U.R.E.D., a nonprofit organization that…