The 2025 Travel & Adventure Show
Jun. 27th, 2025 11:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fauxkloreContinuing the catch-up posts, the only other thing I did in March was go to the Travel Show. I was thinking about not going this year, but Cindy had gotten free tickets, so why not?
As usual, we divided our time between listening to some of the speakers and going up and down the aisles to explore the offerings of the various vendors. The first talk I listened to was Travel, Connect, Transform with Andrew McCarthy. McCarthy is a former brat pack actor who has written a number of articles for travel magazines, as well as a few books, including one about walking the Camino de Santiago with his son. He showed some video clips and talked about travel in general. Unfortunately, he also didn’t really know how to use a microphone, and tended to wander away from the podium.
Tamara Mallin of a company called Fresh Tracks Canada gave a talk titled Canada is Calling! I was hoping she would answer my long-running question about what there might be to do in Saskatchewan, but she failed at that. She did, at least, mention the existence of the Maritimes, but she talked mostly about cross-Canada rail travel and had a little bit about Churchill, Manitoba (which I have been to).
I listened a little to What to Expect from your Antarctica Expedition, presented by a guy from Atlas Ocean Voyages, but it was basically a promo for the Antarctic peninsula and didn’t have anything much about South Georgia and the Falklands, nor did it mention the Ross Sea region or the sub-Antarctic islands of New Zealand.
The most useful talk was How to Save Money on Travel Insurance by Brandon Hughbanks from Travel Insurance Center. I may use his services at some point in the future.
As for the exhibitors, there were too many pitching time shares, mega cruise ships, and other things of little interest to me, but there were a few with info about places I would consider going to. I picked up a supply of brochures and replenished my swag supply (mostly tote bags). Cindy and I tried to get dinner afterwards, but I was wrong that we wouldn’t need a reservation at Unconventional Diner if we went early, so we failed at that. Next year’s travel show is in mid-January and whether or not I go depends on my ability to get free admission.
As usual, we divided our time between listening to some of the speakers and going up and down the aisles to explore the offerings of the various vendors. The first talk I listened to was Travel, Connect, Transform with Andrew McCarthy. McCarthy is a former brat pack actor who has written a number of articles for travel magazines, as well as a few books, including one about walking the Camino de Santiago with his son. He showed some video clips and talked about travel in general. Unfortunately, he also didn’t really know how to use a microphone, and tended to wander away from the podium.
Tamara Mallin of a company called Fresh Tracks Canada gave a talk titled Canada is Calling! I was hoping she would answer my long-running question about what there might be to do in Saskatchewan, but she failed at that. She did, at least, mention the existence of the Maritimes, but she talked mostly about cross-Canada rail travel and had a little bit about Churchill, Manitoba (which I have been to).
I listened a little to What to Expect from your Antarctica Expedition, presented by a guy from Atlas Ocean Voyages, but it was basically a promo for the Antarctic peninsula and didn’t have anything much about South Georgia and the Falklands, nor did it mention the Ross Sea region or the sub-Antarctic islands of New Zealand.
The most useful talk was How to Save Money on Travel Insurance by Brandon Hughbanks from Travel Insurance Center. I may use his services at some point in the future.
As for the exhibitors, there were too many pitching time shares, mega cruise ships, and other things of little interest to me, but there were a few with info about places I would consider going to. I picked up a supply of brochures and replenished my swag supply (mostly tote bags). Cindy and I tried to get dinner afterwards, but I was wrong that we wouldn’t need a reservation at Unconventional Diner if we went early, so we failed at that. Next year’s travel show is in mid-January and whether or not I go depends on my ability to get free admission.
