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Fall Travel Festival
Your Fall Travel Festival is an all day travel-teach-a-thon! Join us in downtown Edmonds on Saturday, November 3rd. Rick Steves will give two lectures, packed with his latest European travel tips, insights and discoveries:
European Travel Skills with Rick Steves
Italy with Rick Steves
Ireland with Pat O'Connor
Spain & Portugal with Reid Coen
Packing Light & Right with Joan Robinson
Eastern Europe with Cameron Hewitt
Other Classes — Great Britain, Germany, Austria & Switzerland, France, and Europe 101
On top of these free classes, you'll find great deals on all kinds of travel gear — just around the corner at our Travel Store.
Our Travel Center in Edmonds will offer 20% off on travel bags, accessories, books, maps, DVDs and more. -->
Complete Festival Schedule and registration form!
How to Get Here Driving directions, maps, parking.
Eating and Sleeping Edmonds hotels and restaurants.
We look forward to seeing you on November 3rd. Happy travels!!!
Your Fall Travel Festival is an all day travel-teach-a-thon! Join us in downtown Edmonds on Saturday, November 3rd. Rick Steves will give two lectures, packed with his latest European travel tips, insights and discoveries:
European Travel Skills with Rick Steves
Italy with Rick Steves
Ireland with Pat O'Connor
Spain & Portugal with Reid Coen
Packing Light & Right with Joan Robinson
Eastern Europe with Cameron Hewitt
Other Classes — Great Britain, Germany, Austria & Switzerland, France, and Europe 101
On top of these free classes, you'll find great deals on all kinds of travel gear — just around the corner at our Travel Store.
Our Travel Center in Edmonds will offer 20% off on travel bags, accessories, books, maps, DVDs and more. -->
Complete Festival Schedule and registration form!
How to Get Here Driving directions, maps, parking.
Eating and Sleeping Edmonds hotels and restaurants.
We look forward to seeing you on November 3rd. Happy travels!!!
Tourism
Tourism is travel for predominantly recreational or leisure purposes or the provision of services to support this leisure travel. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people who "travel to and stay in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes not related to the exercise of an activity remunerated from within the place visited". Tourism has become a popular global leisure activity. In 2006, there were over 813 million international tourist arrivals.
Tourism is vital for some countries, due to the income generated by the consumption of goods and services by tourists, the taxes levied on businesses in the tourism industry, and the opportunity for employment in the service industries associated with tourism. These service industries include transportation services such as cruise ships and taxis, accommodation such as hotels, restaurants, bars, and entertainment venues, and other hospitality industry services such as spas and resorts.
The benefits to human health of rest and relaxation are well documented, and travel is considered by many to be an essential activity. "Getting away from it all" is one of the best ways to relieve stress, broaden cultural horizons and enjoy the fruits of our labour.In our pursuit of happiness, however, we may be destroying the very beaches, mountains and monuments we visit.
Tourism is vital for some countries, due to the income generated by the consumption of goods and services by tourists, the taxes levied on businesses in the tourism industry, and the opportunity for employment in the service industries associated with tourism. These service industries include transportation services such as cruise ships and taxis, accommodation such as hotels, restaurants, bars, and entertainment venues, and other hospitality industry services such as spas and resorts.
The benefits to human health of rest and relaxation are well documented, and travel is considered by many to be an essential activity. "Getting away from it all" is one of the best ways to relieve stress, broaden cultural horizons and enjoy the fruits of our labour.In our pursuit of happiness, however, we may be destroying the very beaches, mountains and monuments we visit.
Leisure Travel
Leisure travel was associated with the industrialisation of United Kingdom – the first European country to promote leisure time to the increasing industrial population. Initially, this applied to the owners of the machinery of production, the economic oligarchy, the factory owners, and the traders. These comprised the new middle class. Cox & Kings were the first official travel company to be formed in 1758. And then, the working class could take advantage of leisure time.
The British origin of this new industry is reflected in many place names. At Nice, one of the first and best-established holiday resorts on the French Riviera, the long esplanade along the seafront is known to this day as the Promenade des Anglais; in many other historic resorts in continental Europe, old well-established palace hotels have names like the Hotel Bristol, the Hotel Carlton or the Hotel Majestic - reflecting the dominance of English customers.
The British origin of this new industry is reflected in many place names. At Nice, one of the first and best-established holiday resorts on the French Riviera, the long esplanade along the seafront is known to this day as the Promenade des Anglais; in many other historic resorts in continental Europe, old well-established palace hotels have names like the Hotel Bristol, the Hotel Carlton or the Hotel Majestic - reflecting the dominance of English customers.
The Colca Canyon in Arequipa, Peru
Backpacking (travel)
Backpacking is a term used to denote a form of low-cost independent international travel, differentiating it from other forms of tourism notably by the following typical attributes; minimal budget use, longer duration traveling, use of public transport and multiple destinations/countries. The origin of the name comes from the backpacks that budget travelers generally carry in the interests of mobility and flexibility.
Some commentators see backpacking as descriptive, not only of low-cost travel, but of the culture and philosophy often associated with it especially anti or trans-nationalism as well as a romanticization of wanderlust and a desire for "authentic" contact with local culture.
Some commentators see backpacking as descriptive, not only of low-cost travel, but of the culture and philosophy often associated with it especially anti or trans-nationalism as well as a romanticization of wanderlust and a desire for "authentic" contact with local culture.
Top 10 Types of Adventure Travel
1. Heli-Climbing in the Rockies
Does hitching a ride on a helicopter to a remote mountainside in the Canadian Rockies and climbing to the peak interest you? Easy scrambles on Trident Peak to steep climbs on Mount Sir Sandford (and rappels back down) are in the mix of mountaineering experiences offered by Canadian Mountain Holidays. Best known as CMH Heli-Skiing for its winter heli-skiing trips, during the summer CMH Heli-Hiking offers mountaineering and hiking packages at its five lodges in the Canadian Rockies.
2. Scuba Diving Off the Great Barrier Reef's Lady Elliot IslandScuba tank-laden humans are far outnumbered by the parade of sea life cruising in the multi-hued coral canyons off Lady Elliot Island. This fragile cay is the southernmost in line of interconnecting reefs that form Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. Here, you can walk off the beach and peer into the three-foot-wide mouth of a giant blue-tipped clam or jockey for space with manta rays.
3. Traversing Between Trees on a Zip LineHeart racing, you let go and zip from one tree to the other reaching nearly 35 miles an hour during the traverse. Called by some the hottest new adventure sport, on a zip-line tour you wear a climbing harness hooked to a steel cable so you can traverse from tree to tree using pulleys. Zip-line tours are popular from Costa Rica to Canada. You can also soar on the slopes of the Haleakala volcano in Hawaii or on a mountainside in Whistler, B.C.
4. Floating Above the World in a Hot Air BalloonPeering down from the passenger basket of a hot air balloon gives you a bird's-eye of the scenery. Floating over an African veld as lions roam below is a popular way to celebrate an anniversary. Closer to home, float in the sky during in one of the annual balloon festivals in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Snowmass, Colorado, and many other resort towns. With Buddy Bombard you can float over chateaus, historic towns and vineyards throughout Europe.
5. Hiking Up a Fourteener in ColoradoOfficially, 54 peaks in Colorado top out above 14,000 feet above sea level (unofficially there are 58) and many locals try to climb all of them. You don’t have to follow their lead, but hiking up one or two while driving the Scenic Byways in this state makes a terrific vacation. Visit the Colorado tourism website to learn more about the fourteeners, a local nickname for these mountains, and the Scenic Byway routes. Every fall, the Park Hyatt Beaver Creek. Offers a luxe way to climb a fourteener.
6. Help Gauchos Move Cattle in ArgentinaIf you’ve been on several horseback riding trips and want a more adventurous experience join a cattle drive in Argentina. You’ll spend days herding cattle with the Andes in the background and Patagonia stretching before you. Equitours can arrange for you to join the colorful gauchos as they move the herds.
7. Ride a Motorcycle to the End of the Road Alaska Rider Tours offers motorcycle tours in Alaska, South Africa and Japan. The varied trips are a way bikers can explore the world on a motorcyle.
8. Bicycle Through Exotic MoroccoButterfield & Robinson runs a variety of bike trips to exotic Morocco. Pictures from riding on 24-speed bikes through local villages past camels, goats and kids on donkeys, watching snake charmers perform in Marrakech’s Djemma el Fna and meeting with artists who live in the port town of Essaouira will fill a big scrapbook. One evening travelers will attend a feast in the desert and overnight in private tents.
9. Bring the Family to Meet Seals and BearsIntroduce your children to the wilder side of life on Vancouver Island, Canada. Take them kayaking in the Pacific ocean off the desolate beaches of Tofino, seal watching from motorized Zodiaks and looking for black bears scrounging for crabs and clams. Austin-Lehman Adventures offers this Canadian trip every summer.
10. Mush Your Own Dog Sled Team Whether you’re tucked under a robe behind a guide or steering your own team of huskies, riding in a dog sled on trails through a forest is a lot of fun. There are dog sled operations at many winter resorts, from Jackson Hole, Wyoming and Snowmass, Colorado to Nome, Alaska. Wintergreen Dog Sledding up in Minnesota’s north country has multi-day trips where you’ll get to mush your own team.
Does hitching a ride on a helicopter to a remote mountainside in the Canadian Rockies and climbing to the peak interest you? Easy scrambles on Trident Peak to steep climbs on Mount Sir Sandford (and rappels back down) are in the mix of mountaineering experiences offered by Canadian Mountain Holidays. Best known as CMH Heli-Skiing for its winter heli-skiing trips, during the summer CMH Heli-Hiking offers mountaineering and hiking packages at its five lodges in the Canadian Rockies.
2. Scuba Diving Off the Great Barrier Reef's Lady Elliot IslandScuba tank-laden humans are far outnumbered by the parade of sea life cruising in the multi-hued coral canyons off Lady Elliot Island. This fragile cay is the southernmost in line of interconnecting reefs that form Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. Here, you can walk off the beach and peer into the three-foot-wide mouth of a giant blue-tipped clam or jockey for space with manta rays.
3. Traversing Between Trees on a Zip LineHeart racing, you let go and zip from one tree to the other reaching nearly 35 miles an hour during the traverse. Called by some the hottest new adventure sport, on a zip-line tour you wear a climbing harness hooked to a steel cable so you can traverse from tree to tree using pulleys. Zip-line tours are popular from Costa Rica to Canada. You can also soar on the slopes of the Haleakala volcano in Hawaii or on a mountainside in Whistler, B.C.
4. Floating Above the World in a Hot Air BalloonPeering down from the passenger basket of a hot air balloon gives you a bird's-eye of the scenery. Floating over an African veld as lions roam below is a popular way to celebrate an anniversary. Closer to home, float in the sky during in one of the annual balloon festivals in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Snowmass, Colorado, and many other resort towns. With Buddy Bombard you can float over chateaus, historic towns and vineyards throughout Europe.
5. Hiking Up a Fourteener in ColoradoOfficially, 54 peaks in Colorado top out above 14,000 feet above sea level (unofficially there are 58) and many locals try to climb all of them. You don’t have to follow their lead, but hiking up one or two while driving the Scenic Byways in this state makes a terrific vacation. Visit the Colorado tourism website to learn more about the fourteeners, a local nickname for these mountains, and the Scenic Byway routes. Every fall, the Park Hyatt Beaver Creek. Offers a luxe way to climb a fourteener.
6. Help Gauchos Move Cattle in ArgentinaIf you’ve been on several horseback riding trips and want a more adventurous experience join a cattle drive in Argentina. You’ll spend days herding cattle with the Andes in the background and Patagonia stretching before you. Equitours can arrange for you to join the colorful gauchos as they move the herds.
7. Ride a Motorcycle to the End of the Road Alaska Rider Tours offers motorcycle tours in Alaska, South Africa and Japan. The varied trips are a way bikers can explore the world on a motorcyle.
8. Bicycle Through Exotic MoroccoButterfield & Robinson runs a variety of bike trips to exotic Morocco. Pictures from riding on 24-speed bikes through local villages past camels, goats and kids on donkeys, watching snake charmers perform in Marrakech’s Djemma el Fna and meeting with artists who live in the port town of Essaouira will fill a big scrapbook. One evening travelers will attend a feast in the desert and overnight in private tents.
9. Bring the Family to Meet Seals and BearsIntroduce your children to the wilder side of life on Vancouver Island, Canada. Take them kayaking in the Pacific ocean off the desolate beaches of Tofino, seal watching from motorized Zodiaks and looking for black bears scrounging for crabs and clams. Austin-Lehman Adventures offers this Canadian trip every summer.
10. Mush Your Own Dog Sled Team Whether you’re tucked under a robe behind a guide or steering your own team of huskies, riding in a dog sled on trails through a forest is a lot of fun. There are dog sled operations at many winter resorts, from Jackson Hole, Wyoming and Snowmass, Colorado to Nome, Alaska. Wintergreen Dog Sledding up in Minnesota’s north country has multi-day trips where you’ll get to mush your own team.
OKTOBERFEST
Oktoberfest Doesn't Disappoint, But Show Up Early
MUNICH - Imagine six million liters of beer, enough to fill a small lake or pour a glass for every man, woman and child in Germany.
Add a few thousand traditionally-clad, voluptuous Bavarian waitresses carrying up to 22 liters of beer at a time, the equivalent of 66 12-ounce bottles.
Picture dozens of 20-piece bands playing party tunes from classic "Oom, pah, pah" waltzes to the Rolling Stones.
And in the name of Princess Therese, don't forget the 6.7 million visitors packing the seven massive beer halls, singing and dancing and spilling over to the carnival grounds outside.
Welcome to Munich's legendary Oktoberfest, or as the Germans call it, the Wies'n, the annual festival first held in 1810 to celebrate the marriage of Bavaria's King Ludwig and Princess Therese of Saxony-Hildburghausen.
That's right: this greatest of German galas got its start as a wedding reception! Only decades after the festival began did the Bavarians do away with the horse races, agricultural shows and other distractions and embrace the Oktoberfest's sudsy destiny as the world's greatest beer-drinking party.
But considering their zeal during the last half-century -- each year Munich's mayor himself taps the first keg and cries "O'zapft ist!" ("It's tapped!") to open the festivities -- the Germans can be forgiven for their event's misguided youth.
Six Munich breweries prepare nearly a year ahead for the millions of foreign visitors -- mostly French, Italians and Americans -- who attend. Thousands of Bavarians break out their lederhosen and feathered caps, thoroughly embarrassing their north German countrymen, not that they care. Half a million sausages and 600,000 chickens are consumed in an average year.
Outside the beer halls, 48 fairground rides and attractions, including big wheels, ghost trains, mazes and the "Wall of Death," entertain kids of all ages. Roller coasters and other make-you-sick rides are at the ready for the uninhibited few who aren't dizzy enough already.
But don't get the wrong idea: the Oktoberfest isn't all fun and games. Those glass beer steins are heavy, even when they're almost empty.
And that's not all: the tidal wave of tourists still runs ahead of the flood of beer. Lines form at the bathrooms even with 1,200 toilets, and hundreds answer the call of nature on a convenient grassy field at any given moment. Those who show up after dark have a better chance of finding Super Bowl tickets than an empty seat.
With a little commitment, however, the diligent beer drinker can still enjoy the Wies'n. One must practice lifting beer mugs months in advance to build up the arms. If necessary, start with light beer.
Once at the Oktoberfest, one must simply commit to showing up around noon to grab a seat and staying all day. It's a tough life.
Anyone who follows this advice will have an unforgettable time at the Oktoberfest, where perfect strangers come from around the world to eat, drink, toast each other, sing, dance, embrace and kiss .. Hey, who was that guy?
MUNICH - Imagine six million liters of beer, enough to fill a small lake or pour a glass for every man, woman and child in Germany.
Add a few thousand traditionally-clad, voluptuous Bavarian waitresses carrying up to 22 liters of beer at a time, the equivalent of 66 12-ounce bottles.
Picture dozens of 20-piece bands playing party tunes from classic "Oom, pah, pah" waltzes to the Rolling Stones.
And in the name of Princess Therese, don't forget the 6.7 million visitors packing the seven massive beer halls, singing and dancing and spilling over to the carnival grounds outside.
Welcome to Munich's legendary Oktoberfest, or as the Germans call it, the Wies'n, the annual festival first held in 1810 to celebrate the marriage of Bavaria's King Ludwig and Princess Therese of Saxony-Hildburghausen.
That's right: this greatest of German galas got its start as a wedding reception! Only decades after the festival began did the Bavarians do away with the horse races, agricultural shows and other distractions and embrace the Oktoberfest's sudsy destiny as the world's greatest beer-drinking party.
But considering their zeal during the last half-century -- each year Munich's mayor himself taps the first keg and cries "O'zapft ist!" ("It's tapped!") to open the festivities -- the Germans can be forgiven for their event's misguided youth.
Six Munich breweries prepare nearly a year ahead for the millions of foreign visitors -- mostly French, Italians and Americans -- who attend. Thousands of Bavarians break out their lederhosen and feathered caps, thoroughly embarrassing their north German countrymen, not that they care. Half a million sausages and 600,000 chickens are consumed in an average year.
Outside the beer halls, 48 fairground rides and attractions, including big wheels, ghost trains, mazes and the "Wall of Death," entertain kids of all ages. Roller coasters and other make-you-sick rides are at the ready for the uninhibited few who aren't dizzy enough already.
But don't get the wrong idea: the Oktoberfest isn't all fun and games. Those glass beer steins are heavy, even when they're almost empty.
And that's not all: the tidal wave of tourists still runs ahead of the flood of beer. Lines form at the bathrooms even with 1,200 toilets, and hundreds answer the call of nature on a convenient grassy field at any given moment. Those who show up after dark have a better chance of finding Super Bowl tickets than an empty seat.
With a little commitment, however, the diligent beer drinker can still enjoy the Wies'n. One must practice lifting beer mugs months in advance to build up the arms. If necessary, start with light beer.
Once at the Oktoberfest, one must simply commit to showing up around noon to grab a seat and staying all day. It's a tough life.
Anyone who follows this advice will have an unforgettable time at the Oktoberfest, where perfect strangers come from around the world to eat, drink, toast each other, sing, dance, embrace and kiss .. Hey, who was that guy?
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