Barry Padgett

Executive Vice President of TripIt and Concur Traveller Services

Today's technology provides more options for travellers to stay in touch with loved ones. Travelling can be easier on the whole family if you make time to let them know that you're thinking of them while you're away. A souvenir for the kids never hurts either!

Parmjit Parmar

Techie, Foodie-At-Large, Public Relation’s Professional At Montana Ridge Enterprises

Travel photography can offer some of the most inspirational, exciting, and candid shots from the places you visit and the people you meet. If you are like me, one of the largest challenges when travelling is what to take with you. How much can you carry around? How do you protect your gear from theft?

Viator

Tours and activities around the world

Everyone asks what there is to do in Paris, but no one seems to ask what not to do. Here's some solid advice for all visitors to Paris, whether it's your first or your 51st time in the City of Light.

HomeAway.co.uk

The UK's number one holiday rentals site

Summer is the time of year when people gather en mass to celebrate with music, dance, theatre and sometimes even bulls. These colourful celebrations are the perfect way to revel in the beauty of summer.

Conde Nast Traveler

CondeNastTraveler.com

Warning: these are for those who aren't planning on packing light.

Tablet

Some of us dream of escaping into the outdoors, but without all the twisting of tent poles, all those roots and rocks pressing against your spine. Here we present seven hotels that take most of the rough edges off the camping experience.

Travel + Leisure

TravelandLeisure.com

If you buy flowers to thank a host in Russia, think twice about the color and number lest you offend. Yellow represents infidelity, while Russians...

Gogobot

As the warm weather heats up, the Gay Pride events are starting to go off like fireworks.

Held everywhere from the Canary...

Oyster

Oyster.com visits, photographs, reviews, and rates each hotel, uncovering the truth before it's "uh-oh" time

Of course your dad is a family man, but this Father's Day why don't you give him a little break from the tots and chaos by sending him on a mancation?

Rania Walker

Founder and Managing Partner of SparQ Street Communications

"Are we there yet?" With summer holidays coming up, many of us will be en route to visit family and friends, and amid all the planning, packing and panicking the last thing we need when we get into the car, on a plane or on the train, is a melt-down. Or even worse, those four words that I dare not repeat.

Viator

Tours and activities around the world

Whether hovering over a kaleidoscope of corals at the Great Barrier Reef or soaring around the Statue of Liberty in New York, here are 10 of the best places in the world to see from above.

Bart van Poll

Spottedbylocals.com

It's all about the Venice of the North, Stockholm.

Rohit Sethi

Vice President, Security Compass

Now that it's June, many consumers are making plans for that big summer getaway. But few realize that the risk of identity theft goes up when traveling -- in fact, just booking your next trip online, especially during peak travel periods, can also put you at risk.

Cheapflights

www.cheapflights.com

A slew of countries and states have recently voted to legalize same-sex marriage, which means new gay and lesbian wedding destinations are popping up around the world.