With its diverse history and celebrated arts, Jamaica offers a great multicultural experience for visitors. The capital and largest city, Kingston, is home to the Bob Marley Museum, African Heritage Museum, the National Gallery and Institute of Jamaica. The city also has tours of many authentic Reggae studios where well-known hits were created.
Continue readingFEATURE ARTICLE: VISIT AND LEARN: THE BOOKER T. WASHINGTON NATIONAL MONUMENT HARDY, VA
The first African American family has been living in the White House for a couple of years now. So it may be a bit hard to believe that there’s been a 107-year gap between the time the Obamas took up residence in the White House and the year – 1901– when the first African American was formally invited (by then-president Theodore Roosevelt) to simply visit the place. That guest was Booker T. Washington – born a slave, fathered by a white man he never knew, a child who hungered for knowledge more than he hungered for anything else in life. His drive to become educated, and to foster education for other African Americans, led to his founding the Tuskegee Institute in 1881 in Alabama, which he built into an internationally-respected center of learning. The author of Up from Slavery went on to advise three US presidents, win an honorary degree from Harvard and become recognized as the country’s foremost black educator.
Continue readingFEATURE ARTICLE: MULTICULTURAL TRAVEL NEWS, MARCH 2011 – LEARNING SPANISH IN GUATEMALA
If you work in Hispanic marketing, either your job depends on your ability to speak Spanish or you don’t really need to speak Spanish to do your job.
Continue readingTHE MOHONK MOUNTAIN HOUSE BALLROOM DANCE WEEKEND DECEMBER 2010
If you’ve packed your bag for the weekend with ballroom dance shoes, a tuxedo, a ball gown, and a blaze orange hunter’s safety vest, you’re probably on your way to Mohonk Mountain House’s Ballroom Dance Weekend, held every December. I’ve been wanting to go for years and finally this past December John and I were able to get there for their 21st annual dance weekend.
Continue readingFEATURE ARTICLE: MOUNT AIRY CASINO RESORT BEGINS OUTREACH TO ASIAN AMERICANS
Along with the completely brand new hotel, Mount Airy Casino Resort, which was built on the grounds of the Mount Airy Lodge, that quintessential Pocono Mountain hotel known from its heyday in the 50s and 60s, comes a 21st century marketing outlook: targeting Asian Americans.
Mention Mount Airy to any boomer-aged New Yorker and you might get a spontaneous rendition of their ubiquitous TV commercial jingle, “All you need to bring, is your love of everything. Come to beautiful Mount Airy Lodge.”
Continue readingFeature Article: Multicultural Arizona
Discovering what’s multicultural about Arizona is a relaxing, delicious and educational experience. First stop, the Spa at the Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa in Phoenix for an 80 minute Native American inspired Deam Catcher aromatherapy massage. The dream catcher, a small hoop with a net, feathers and beads, used by the Woodland Indians, is placed in the room, “to catch the guest’s stresses or any negative energy,” explained Laura Geis, spa sales manager. Then warm basalt stones from Arizona river beds, used by Native Americans as a healing art, she said, are placed on your back. “The energy from the full moon recharges the stones and we incorporate them into the massage, placing them along the spine,” Laura said. Then, essential oils are dripped along the spine. Thus, “Raindrop” therapy, she explained, brings energy from the sun, and this La-Kota practice is incorporated into the massage. The eight Chakra oils used include lavendar for self empowerment, bergamot for vision, patchouli for wealth eucalyptus for communication and lotus for wholeness. Can a centuries old practice work on modern day stresses? By the end of the massage, my blackberry weary fingers felt better, and at the same time that I was completely relaxed, I had also thought up a great idea for my company’s Multicultural Speakers Showcase.
Continue readingFEATURE ARTICLE: PROMOTING PUERTO RICO AS A MEETINGS AND CONVENTIONS DESTINATION – NEWLY RENOVATED CONVENTION CENTER IS FOCUS OF CAMPAIGN
The First Annual Puerto Rico Tourism Investment Conference
In December, over 350 delegates were in attendance at the newly renovated Puerto Rico Convention Center for the First Annual Puerto Rico Tourism Investment Conference, hosted by The Puerto Rico Tourism Company (PRTC) and the Department of Economic Development and Commerce. The Convention Center, a $415 million endeavor, is the newest, largest and most technologically advanced meeting facility in the Caribbean.
FEATURE ARTICLE: REDISCOVERING CROATIA (HERITAGE TRAVEL)
Heritage travel is gaining in popularity and Croatia is part of the surge. Second and third generation Croatian Americans are visiting this historic country to reconnect with their roots.
Continue readingFEATURE ARTICLE: THE NATIONAL BLACK TOURISM NETWORK: LITTLE KNOWN MISSOURI
Missouri has a rich heritage of African American history and tourists to the state are being encouraged to explore it along with the state’s more well known attractions. In an effort to attract African Americans, campaigns from the Missouri Division of Tourism and the efforts of experts like Angela daSilva of the National Black Tourism Network (a full service travel company that specializes in tours of the African Diaspora) highlight the history and rich heritage of African Americans in Missouri.
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