"Eyes that Travel, See"
                                       -Swahili Saying

I've been writing travel articles for over 35 years so I can tell you that talking about travel is one thing; writing about it is a whole different story. When you need an article for your newsletter or magazine, or an exciting column to help sell your destination over a period of time,   please contact me.  I'll capture the  passion, energy and enthusiasm of the destination and involve your readers on a journey of fascination and discovery .  -Steve Gillick

A Bollywood Star in the making! India, 2006

Travel Skills

• Four Ways to Market your Travel Provenance and Achieve Recognition, Respect and Reward
• Four Ways to De-Bunk those Lingering Travel Myths
• Flying Colours:  Your sales and customer service ethic put to the test (Page 16)
• Four Ways to Mirror your Client's Travel Wants and Needs
• Star Wars Lessons for 2016 (PP 36-39)
• The Devil Made me Do It:  Upping your enthusiasm and increasing your sales through specialization (P. 30)
• Small Details make a Big Difference:  Counter Intelligence and Other Secret Agent Practices
• Nine Tips to Help Monetize your Travels
• Back to School Show and Tell, or What I did on my summer vacation (Page 26)
• Floored by Client's Special Request?   8 Tips that will help.
• Zap the App and Pull the Plug:  Adventures in Peace of Mind
• Your Travel Drivers will take you down the road to Mystery! (Page 14)
• Picture This:  Travel Adventures in Psycho-Photography (Page 29)

• Time Travel (Page 27)
• Adventure Education:  The Thrill of the Will to Skill
• Tapping Into your Inner Explorer
• Training Tips:  It's not enough Just to show up
• Be an Exhibitionist and show them your Provenance!

• 7 Ways to Foster Amazing Client Loyalty
• 9 Ways to put Supplier Expertise at Work for your Agency
• 12 Tips for Successful Travel Agency Presentations
• 8 Ways to Maximize your Agency's ROI on Fam Trips
• 10 Ways to Showcase your Staff's Expertise and Build Sales
• Digging Deeper:  9 Ways to get Closer to your Customers
• What Goes Around Comes Around:  Customer Service Success Stories

• The Lowdown on Customer Service

• Laughter Generates Revenue

• Are you in it for the Long Haul (Flight)?  Part 1
• Are you in it for the Long Haul         (Flight) ? (Part 2)
• Avatourism (lessons from the movie Avatar)
• Canada Trade Launches Drive to attract "Generation Me"
• Exceeding Expectations:  Planning on Serendipity
• GlobalSpeak:  Relationship Building Before and After the Internet
• The Seven Sense Solution:  Selling the Travel Experience

• If Truth be Told...
• Painting a Picture in the Mind of Your Client or Meeting Lucy in the Sky
• Travel Passion Bears Fruit:  Inspiring Contagious Positivity 
• Tell It Like It Is 
• What The Tour Guide Taught

Gamification

• Games People Play:  Impacting Training through Gamification
• Thriving Opportunities in Travel:  Playing with Structured Experiences

General Topics

• Who is Buried in Grant's Tomb?
• Eight Tips to Organize your Fam Trip Action Plan
• Turning a Fam into a Blog Article 
• If you wish to be a writer...Write!
• Be The Sale (August 2011 Closing the Sale)
• Kick the Bucket:  Read this Before You Die
• Reality Bites:  The Real Thing
• Restless Human Spirits:  Travelling in Interesting Times

• Peregrination Vocation Elation:Travel Career Positivity (July 2012 Career)

• 2013:  You Say you Want a Resolution
• Golden Opportunities:  Lessons from the 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremonies
• You Only Live Once:  So Get Going!
• 2012:  Here There Be Dragons

Travel Scams

• Travel Scams We Know and Love, Part One

• Travel Scams:  Part Two
• Taxis:  A Love Hate Relationship with Travellers

Contact Steve for permission to use any of his material or for a customized article or series.

!Khwa Ttu! North of Cape Town, South Africa

Kathmandu, Nepal

Near Itsukushima Shrine, Japan

Museo Evita, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Craic (krak). Graffiti in Galway, Ireland

Marie-Fréderique and Baluchon, the marmot. Play time at Refuge Pageau, Amos, Quebec

The Abbot of Wat Siri Pa Lan Sai, a forest temple near Khong Chiam, Thailand

Carnival in Antigua!

Travel Destinations

General

• Five Ways to Pull the Plug on your Clients' Travels
• Taste and Try Before you Buy:  6 Ways to Cater to the 6 travel senses of your clients
• Travel Earthing:  Connecting with the Spirit of the land
• The Reign of Terroir Tourism:  Travel Multi-Tasking
• What do you do when the Client knows More than You?
• The Higher Ground of Travel
• Tourist or Traveller:  Looking Beyond the Obvious

• 11 Steps to Selling a Destination You've Never Visited

• 6 Ways to Add a Touch of Serendipity to your Clients' Travels

• 8 Ways to Excite Client Enthusiasm in a Destination
• Mastering the Destination Booking Point
• Brave New World
• Promoting the Vagabond Mentality
• Destination Training More Hype than Help
• Fair Weather Travellers

• Happiness in Travel:  Don't Dismiss the Bliss
• Super-Imposing YOU into destination sales
• Travel Like you Mean it 
• Should I Stay or Should I Go? 
• Global Zorbing

Argentina

• Pop Quiz

Austria

• Vienna Artistry:  Travel Emotionomics Gone Wild

Brazil

• Hat Trick:  Brazil Sets Goals

Canada

Newfoundland

• Discovering Space:  Serenity and Drama on the Avalon Peninsula

Pan Am Games

• One Big Team Spirit:  The Pan Am-Para-Pan Am Games

Quebec

• Remember to Say Cheese!  The wonders of Abitibi-Témiscamingue

China

• The Maritime Silk Road: Secrets, Legends, Tea and Porcelain
• Let your Hair Down in Guangxi: More than just a stop in Guilin
• Scaling the Heights of Guangdong: Moments of Reflection Along the Tourist Trail

• Stepping into Serendipity:  In Hunan the Heat is On
  
  

Colombia

• Marketing the Niche Market of "Markets" or "How I survived 73 Minutes in Bazurto"
• Being Bogota: Buenos, Bolivar, Bikes, Botero and Ben-Hur
• Hanging out in Colombia's Small Towns

Cuba

• In Cuba, Canada is the Guest of Honour
• Sunday in Havana with Steve

Czech Republic

• Another Final Night in Prague
• Bohemian Rhapsody:  Cesky Krumlov Hits the Right Note

Egypt

• A Symphony of Camels
• Six Hearts and Counting:  Food, Travel and Fairuz

El Salvador

• Taking Your Life in Your Hands:  Practicing to be a Dissuasion Specialist

Guatemala

• Poison Ivy Town

Ireland

• My Day in Dublin
• The Flavours of Howth:  Exploring King Sitric's Domain
• Secrets of the Wild Atlantic Way:  Exploring Ireland's Rugged West Coast
• Exploring Ireland in a Roundabout Way:  Happiness is a Chatty GPS
• Dream Lifestyles in Ireland

Israel

• Dead Sea Adventures Come Alive in Israel (P. 72)
• Israel:  A Dynamic, Reflective Experience (P. 55)
• A Perfect Tourism Experience
• Mazel Tov:  Israel is 64 Today

Jamaica

• The Music is the Medium is the Message:  Jamaica Gears up for its 50th

Japan

• Keeping Pace withTokyo
• Armour, Architecture, Arhats and Ardour:  Keeping Pace with the New Tokyo
• Unusual is the New Norm:  Rabbits, Chop Sticks and Bento Boxes
• Getting into the Spirit of Naha, Okinawa's Capital City (P. 27)
• Relaxing in Tokyo (P.39)
• Imbibing the Spirit of Japan (P. 13)
• Finding Peace of Mind in Koyasan
• Exploring the Heart of Hokuriku
• Get Ready for Hokuriku:  North Western Japan Beckons with a Bullet
• Culinary Perspectives of Tokyo from a Canadian Foodie
• The Izakaya Way of Life:  Achieving Culinary Nirvana in Japan
• Happy Namahage New Year
• The Galapagos of the Orient:  Tokyo's Ogasawara Islands Beckon
• A Spirited Adventure: Travels in Okinawa
• Early Morning Musings:  In Niseko Village All is Very Well
• Exploring the Entrance to the Mountain Forest:  Satisfying Niche Interests in Yamaguchi
• Hellbent for Adventure:  Jigokudani
• Just say Noh: Nightlife in Yokohama
• Nowhere But Niigata:  A Taste-Provoking Experience
• Pilgrims Progress: Soaking in Kotohira
• Reflections:  Thoughts on Sakura
• Report on Japan:  Cope, Hope, Empathy and Sake
• Tokyo on Hai Alert:  Reaching New Heights at the Tokyo Sky Tree
• Satebu Dreams of Travel:  Creating your Travel Umami (lessons from the documentary, 'Jiro Dreams of Sushi')

• Recovery Selling:  The Japan Lesson

Mali

• From Here to Timbuktu:  Why We Should Care About Mali

Mexico

• Down in Mexico Feeling Free as the Air
• Waiting for that Indiana Jones Moment

Myanmar (Burma)

• On the Road to Mandalay

Panama

• Hats Off to Panama (Part One)
• Hats Off to Panama (Part Two)

Peru

• Eighty-Five Minutes in Huanchaco

• Maximum Lima

Russia

• Russian to Get You There

St. Eustatius

• Finding Statia:  St. Eustatius beckons with a smile

Sri Lanka

• Habarana Highlights
• Sri Lanka:  Travels on the Cusp
• Recovery Selling: Sri Lanka 

Thailand

• Exploring Thailand's Isan Region (P.17)
• Isan, Thailand (P. 19)
• One Night in Ban Kok:  Exploring the Isan Region of Thailand

Tibet/Nepal

• Ice Road Truckers:  Deadliest Roads-Reality for Real

Tunisia

• Memories of the International Sahara Festival, Re-ignited

Turkey

• Cotton Castle Caught in Calamity

• Like Meeting an Old Friend:  Nothing Beats Education-on-Location
• Rising Above it All in Cappadocia

United States
Texas

• San Antonio Dreaming: Tasting a City on a Mission

Uzbekistan

• Discovering Uzbekistan:  2800 Years in the Making

Niche Markets

• ​Feathering your Nest:  A Travel Special Interest Takes Flight
• ​The Hidden Power of Doors:  Going Beyond the Threshold to Promote the Allure of Travel
• Monkey Business:  A Primate Primer on Niche Marketing for 2016
• 4 Ideas to Ponder about Super Specialization
• Travel Special Interests are Brewing:  Country Hopping Takes on a Whole New Meaning
• 8 Ways to provide Budget-Conscious Travelers with a taste of Luxury
• What Travellers Want:  Embracing the Niche Market Triad
• A New Zeal on the Edge of the Earth: Quenching the Wine Hobbit
• Sipping the World Fantastic: Sake Tasting
• 9 Tips for Success in the Luxury Travel Market

• 9 Ways to get started in a Niche you know nothing about
• Indulging your Foodies:  How to lead in the field of Culinary Travel
• Culinary Bliss
• Eat Out:  Culinary Travel Profiling

• 9 Ways to Spark Interest in Adventure Travel

• The Half Truth about Adventure Travel

• Travellers Behind Bars: Visiting Jails, Penitentiaries and Prisons
• How Low You can Go:  Being Down in the Dumps can be so Uplifting
• Flightseeing, Sightseeing, Heightseeing
• Water, Water Everywhere: Celebrating Travel Liquidity
• Travelling the World for Comic Relief
• Bazaar or Bizarre:  Probe your Clients' Mokita
• Dark Tourism Comes to Light
• Faith, Spirits, Travel and Comic Books

• Fishing for that Summer Travel Experience

• Gee I wish I was Back in the Army:  Targeting Military Tourism
• Listen to the Music or, Notes on Travel
• ​Sacred Tourism:  Savouring the Secrets
• The Sounds of Silence:  Meditating on Travel

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Schools out in The Maldives!

Inside Hagia Sophia, Istanbul

Canoeing out to the Tom Thomson Memorial on Canoe Lake, Algonquin Park, Ontario, Canada

From the Malecon, Havana, Cuba

Pub sign, Dublin, Ireland

Marionettes in Prague

In the Copan Ruins Museum, Honduras

Store keeper, Matmata, Tunisia

Prayer Wheels, Lhasa, Tibet

Freak Brothers Store, Rappongi, Tokyo

The mushroom rocks at Sao Chaling, Thailand

A curious long-eared cow near Phimai, Thailand

Gilmour Car Museum, Hickory Corners, MI

Finding the rare Prothonotary Warbler in Rondeau Provincial Park, SW Ontario, Canada

San Juan Mission, San Antonio

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