http://www.blogher.com/node/14933 Comments for "The Seattle Travel Show: A Festival of Big Ideas" en http://www.blogher.com/node/14933 <blockquote><p>With little understanding of what, exactly, a consumer travel show is, we wandered down to the exhibition hall at Seattle Center. It would never occur to me to go to a travel show to plan my next vacation. I don’t want to join a group, hire a travel agent, stock up on brochures, buy a time share, take a cruise… I am beginning to realize that I am in the minority on this. </p> <p>Even so-called adventure travel is being packaged and bundled in to a neat “purchased for a single price, all meals, transfers from Buenas Aires, skilled and certified guides, airfare from the continental US not included” package. It has never been easier to have an exotic adventure.</p></blockquote> <p><em><br /> Shameless traffic diversion. To avoid duplicated posts, the rest is <a href="http://www.nerdseyeview.com/blog/?p=541">here</a> on Nerd's Eye View.</em></p> http://www.blogher.com/node/14933#comments Travel Sun, 28 Jan 2007 12:02:36 -0600 Pam 14933 at http://www.blogher.com