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Celebrity Cruises launched a new hotel program that streamlines and enhances the booking process for pre- and post-cruise stays. The program also provides a curated list of upscale hotels with exclusive rates.  Hotels by Celebrity will provide passengers and travel advisors with details about the properties they book, including hotel amenities, services and previous guest reviews. The online booking system, powered by Priceline, will present accommodations to fit a variety of needs, including proximity to local attractions and the number of guests in the traveling party. Get a dose of digital travel in your inbox each day Subscribe to our newsletter below "Travel is meant to eliminate the stress in our lives, and Hotels by Celebrity makes finding the perfect accommodations easy and luxurious," says Brian Abel, Celebrity's senior vice president of hotel operations. Trave...

The digital marketing industry can be confusing to those who are unfamiliar with it, especially if they don't know all the acronyms and platforms. When I first started in the paid search industry in 2008, I thought my friend who told me about JumpFly worked in "paperclip" marketing because she kept talking about pay-per-click. And I wondered how much marketing an agency could do for a single product like a paperclip.  It turns out my cluelessness about the digital advertising space is fairly common. One of the questions our sales team often gets asked is: "What's the difference between SEM (search engine marketing), SEO (search engine optimization), and PPC (pay-per-click)?"  For me, it was easiest to think about online advertising and SEM as a big umbrella with PPC and SEO underneath.  In order for SEM to deliver the optimal results, there needs to be both PPC and SEO efforts in place. B...

Rebranding. Switcheroos. A game of musical chairs, only with resort names. However you want to think of it, it's a wild time on the Strip. Hotels and casinos changing names is nothing new. It's practically part of the city's DNA. What's unfolding, though, is the sort of thing that usually needs to be tracked with one of those murder boards and their spider webs of push pins and different colored yarn. Take the Hard Rock. Last March, it became Virgin Hotels Las Vegas, now The Mirage is going to become the Hard Rock. MGM Resorts International will retain the Mirage name, because developer Steve Wynn acquired the rights to it by paying $250,000 each to the La Mirage Casino, which was last known as the Key Largo, and the Mirage Motel, which became the Glass Pool Inn. Elsewhere on the Strip, Bally's Corp., which somehow doesn't own Bally's and never did (that was the unrelated Bally Manufacturing), is in the process of...

National parks have become so popular recently that several are requiring reservations in 2022. Reservations for hotels inside the parks and national park campsites fill up months in advance. Hipcamp offers a unique solution for campers, glampers, RVers: private-land camping. Outdoor enthusiasts can find unique stays at a moment's notice within close proximity of national parks. Read on to discover cool campsites near popular parks such as Joshua Tree, the Smoky Mountains, Hot Springs, Big Bend, Zion, and Glacier. Hipcamp 1. S K Y C A M P Joshua Tree National Park, California Situated high on the hills of the Bartlett Mountain Range, just 6 miles from Joshua Tree National Park, S K Y C A M P offers picturesque panoramic views of the desert. With its hammock chairs and rustic setting, this campground puts the hip in Hipcamp. Each of its four sites has a picnic table, charcoal grill, and fire pit. Wake up to the gorgeous desert sunrise, take an eye-opening cold outdoor show...

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Technically, Cape Cod is a peninsula, but the opening of the Cape Cod Canal in 1914 created a water border with mainland Massachusetts, unifying the Cape with its neighbors, true islands, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket as a trio of vacation spots. Each is a different experience, but all are stocked with boutique inns and fabulous resorts. Chatham Bars Inn | Chatham, Cape Cod Chatham Bars Inn in Chatham on Cape Cod — Photo courtesy of Chatham Bars Inn Situated on Cape Cod's southeastern elbow on its Atlantic Ocean side, Chatham Bars Inn, which opened in 1914, is set on 25 waterside acres that include its own quarter-mile private beach. The main inn, which is surrounded by 37 shingled cottages containing suites of varying sizes, includes the big, bright South Lounge. It includes a fireplace and board games for colder weather, as well as a wraparound veranda – perfect for a relaxing lunch overlooking the water. For dinner, the sumptuous Stars offers dishes insp...

Young reader recommends an escape to Wragby. Bored one afternoon, I grabbed the first book I saw in my dad's office. It happened to be Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence, the controversial early 20th century novel famous for its crude language and frequent references to sex. I chose the book because I liked the cover, an abstractly painted naked woman, who seemed to be flowing through the wilderness. The book centers around Constance Chatterley (Connie), an aristocratic woman trapped in a passionless marriage to her handicapped husband, Sir Clifford Chatterley. She grows increasingly lonely on her large estate, Wragby, and sparks a scandalous affair with another isolated character, their gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors. The book took me over a month to finish, and I frequently had to consult Sparknotes to comprehend what I was reading. But a recent high school graduate reading anything longer than Instagram captions is unusual these days. A recent high school graduate rea...