Elevating hospitality to a five-star art has been a specialty of Switzerland since the founding in 1893 of the world’s first hotel school, École hôtelière de Lausanne, located in the Lake Geneva Region in the French-speaking part of the country. … Read More
Given its global reputation for beauty and bounty, there’s no shortage of reasons for visiting Bordeaux—and yet it’s all the better that the city chosen as “European Best Destination 2015” offers some truly extraordinary hotels. A UNESCO World Heritage site … Read More
San Francisco has a habit of hovering in the collective gay imagination like an empyrean city beckoning at rainbow’s end. It’s the city that most often answers the question, “If you could live anywhere else…”, one of the world’s most favorite cities – and particularly for the LGBT community. … Read More
Every student of fashion—and of Madonna—immediately recognizes the iconic photographs: the Mainbocher corset, Marlene Dietrich in chiaroscuro, the Hattie Carnegie dresses—all of which are the works of the legendary German-American artist who goes by one name: Horst. One of the … Read More
Some years ago, thanks in part to a certain best-selling novel and an Oscar-winning film, Marseille had such a raffish reputation that its natural attributes were often overlooked. Situated on one of the world’s most beautiful harbors with more than … Read More
Even the alpacas are happy on the San Juan Islands. Located in the northwest corner of the United States between Seattle, Victoria, and Vancouver, the San Juan Islands are so pristine that both residents and visitors feel a shared responsibility … Read More
Almost 40 million people in the United States have ancestral links to Ireland. Small wonder then that the United States represents the second largest market for tourism to the Emerald Isle and that one out of every seven tourists to … Read More
If you studied literature in college, then you might recall Asheville as the town that Thomas Wolfe depicted in his two-volume magnum opus Look Homeward, Angel and You Can’t Go Home Again, novels that so scandalized the citizenry of Wolfe’s … Read More
