The 55th annual conference of the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA), is just about to wind up in Pattaya, Thailand.  According to eTurbo News,  the keynote speaker of the conference, Mr. Ho Kwon Ping of the Banyan Tree Group, suggested that three driving forces changing tourism today are:

“The aging Baby Boomers
The rise of the urban middle class of China [...]

Happy shiny travel experiences are great.  Thats mostly why we go travelling.  However, travel is said to come from the French word “travail”, which means “hard work”. Travel can be hard work, especially when things go wrong…
Has it ever happened to you? Have your travel plans ever gone belly-up? Has your greatly anticipated travel experience [...]