Brilliant Escapes

Aside from asking me which country is my favorite destination (an impossible question to answer), people also ask me: "Erin, if you had to choose — going back to somewhere you love, or discovering somewhere brand new — which would you pick?"

For some travelers, the word “cruise” still brings up images of crowded buffet lines, cheesy entertainment, and oversized ships packed wall-to-wall with tourists in matching T-shirts.

Yes, that version of cruising does still exist. But it’s only one tiny part of what the cruise industry has become…

Ask most people to picture a trip to Egypt, and you'll get the same handful of images: a bus disgorging fifty people at the base of the Great Pyramid, a floating hotel with a buffet line longer than the Nile itself, a guide holding up a numbered flag. It's not an unfair picture — it's just an incomplete one…

Everyone comes to Cambodia for Angkor Wat. I get it — it's one of the great man-made wonders of the world, and it deserves every bit of the hype (I even posted about it here). But here's the thing I tell every client who mentions Cambodia to me: Angkor Wat is the introduction, not the whole story…

Solo-only river cruises, luxury yachts, fall in Scandinavia, and more. Erin shares five takeaways from her host agency's annual conference in Tulum.

A great trip looks effortless from the outside. The boat pulls up right on time, the room has the view, the dinner reservation that seemed impossible somehow isn't. What you don't see is everything that made it look that easy — and that's usually the more interesting story.