Travel Tips Blog and Statistics
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Where is The Women's Travel Club?
Some history: The Club was founded by Phyllis Stoller in 1992. It grew into a national organization with accolades and awards. In 2006 Phyllis sold the Club to ABC Destinations, a group tour company. The new owners closed all their businesses in October 2012, including our wonderful Women’s Travel Club.
We reopened as The Women’s Travel Group, same people, same themes with a slight twist. We are now offering longer, more in depth tours with ‘smart itineraries’. We are the only women’s travel group to identify this new untapped area: college educated women who want to learn as well as have fun and who want a more comprehensive tour about the country and its people.…
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The Women's Travel Group Fitness on the Road Tips
Some of these tips are from a ‘Times’ article. Hotel room exercises include:
lunges, squats, with the use of the hotel iron as an arm weight. Use the chair to stretch your back and waist by twisting and holding onto the opposite sides. The bed makes a good bar for triceps push ups and soft sit ups. Even if you hate exercise, do some stretching in bed after a long flight. The move onto to floor with a towel as a matt, and continue with your stretches.… -
What We Learned at The New York Times Travel Show
Women want smarter tours. They told us that free time, shopping with the guide, cooking and hobby type classes are not what they want to pay $$ for in a tour. We learned that many former Women’s Travel Club members miss our type of quality vacation and that the word is spreading.
We realized that our Yunnan tour was not geographically understood. Yunnan is North of Nepal and West of Burma, fyi. It is minority, tribal and Himalayan China, a trip for the second time visit to China.…
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Come Visit Us At The New York Times Travel Show
At the SITA World Tours Booth. Just back with 22 women from Ixtapan Spa, lots of interest in our new trips and in reunions with fellow travelers from our Club days. Here is me with a mouth full of guacamole at our farewell party and a necklace from a China trip with Women’s Travel Club, our first incarnation.
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A checklist for brochure vocabulary from The Women's Travel Group
The Women’s Travel Group, a specialty tour operator for women, offers this vocabulary checklist to all women travelers who want a smart trip!
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1. How many days are ‘drive by or city tours‘? Try for the minimum but do not miss city highlights.
2. Do the tours contain the words: ‘ceremony, lesson, museum and private visit‘? It is a good sign if they do.
3. The word ‘options‘: many options means you have under budgeted your vacation.… -
Phyllis with the CEO of The Red Hat Society
Lunch in London together, always good to see old friends over a great meal. Maybe we can do some travel with Red Hat?…
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New York Times Travel Show and www.thewomenstravelgroup.com
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If you plan on coming to the show, stop by the booth of Sita World Tours and find Phyllis Stoller. She will be there on and off and would love to meet you. Bring your travel questions and dreams.… -
Today We Launched The WomensTravelGroup
Several of you asked about our new name. We were unable to secure back our original name so we are now here….Spread the word to nonwhiners, to no one under size 10 and certainly no women who look good after overnight flights.
Check our Yunnan on our site, especially if you have already done the basic tour of China and want to see the exotic
side of the country.…
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Women's Travel Resolutions for 2013
Booking Now for Yunnan Province and Shanghai May 2013
1–Eat better on trips and on the plane.
2–Read 2 good books about the destination, not just think about it.
3–Avoid all shopping until the very end of the day when acquisition energy kicks in, after cultural energy has waned.
4–Only pack what I need and budget for some laundry en route.
5–Scan my passport photo into my email account.
6–Plan ahead and get guidebooks from the e-library on line.
7–Leave the camera home, just bring a phone camera
8–Pay on line for all upcoming bills even if I pay early.… -
Best Unusual Travel Gifts for Women
Forget about crazily expensive lists in most magazines.
Here is thewomenstravelgroup.com’s list:
1. Collection of tiny cosmetics from a fine brand like Kiehls.
2. Clip on light for your Kindle or Ipad
3. 2 hour instruction from a geek on every travel app including the Passbook function on a iphone.
4. Colorful security straps for luggage.
5. a cheap pay as you go phone with 20 minutes in it for overseas usage.
6. a good passport or visa photograph from a studio for all your visas and new passports.…
