Old and New Friends at the NY Times Travel Show

It is hard work getting the word out but I noticed that it is the key to success, like the long term popularity of travel writers like Rick Steves and Arthur Frommer. I’m sure Ian Wright had better things to do this weekend then promote his new Travel Channel series, Wright on America. So many others I ran into at the NY Times Show have been around due to hard work. I got to finally meet Jim Benning and Michael Yessis of World Hum face to face, a long time favorite site of mine. Peter Mandel also stopped by say hello. Several of my favorite PR people such as Lauren Kaufman from Spring O’Brien and Joao Rodrigues from Myriad also visited.

Just as wonderful was meeting new people like the many who came back to the GoNOMAD booth after our travel writing seminar. We also met Miles Hampton who does Radio Margaritaville for Sirius Satellite Radio who did some sound bites for his show from the GoNOMAD booth. Of course we tempered some hard work with some great down time like Longitude Book's 10 year celebration at a great local bar and dinner at my favorite NY City restaurant Gelsi. It is hard work getting the word out, but so much fun.