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Just wanted to remind everyone!!

The New York Times Travel Show is this weekend at the Javits Center.

Tickets are $15 or $10 with this coupon code: TTL

It looks like there's going to be lots of interesting seminars, including talks from Art Frommer, Rick Steves and novelist Nicholas Sparks.

I am a travel expo junkie so I will be there even though I'm not in the market for a trip anytime soon...

Hmm, I might make the trip to the city to attend. Might be fun, although I have to decide which day to come up. Never been to anything of this sort.

Hi Taylor,
A show like this is mainly to try to sell travel to people, and it's not usually "budget" travel (not that you need "budget" travel--you could be a millionaire for all I know--but it seems BnA'ers are more of the budget travel set.) I like the shows to get more info about destinations and to sign up for contests. Sometimes they give away free stuff, too. Like pens.

I am pathetic.

Free pens and t-shirts are why I goto the Philadelphia Car Show every year. I have no interest in cars but I love free stuff. Even though this kind of thing would be monetarily out of my league, I'd think I'd probably enjoy listening to them talk travel.
And I'd like to see if I can't make a few contacts or get to know people in the travel industry. You know the "oh yeah, I know a guy who knows a guy who once worked for so and so, so I think he'd make a good employee" type thing. Although chances of me finding anyone with any real power at a convention are slim.

Oh, and my parents who've never been out of the country are looking to take a vacation withing the next few years or so and they'll be doing the Fodor's type 'experiance' so I might be able to pick up some literature for them.

I'm going - I thought it would be fun. I'm also looking for work and was hoping that this might give me some good ideas. Could it hurt?

I do want to see Frommer talk and see what some of the more upscale packages are like, even tho' I'll probably never go on them.

I am not a millionaire, myself.

Same here, Kwon. I even want to see Rick Steves, although much of the below-50 crowd think he's a tool. Well, he is, but I have sentimental feelings for him since the first travel guide I ever used was one of his. And I'm fascinated by his un-hipness.

I think this I need to see.

E.

DUHH!!!

This is TWO weekends from now. Not THIS weekend. I am such a moron. SORRY EVERYONE!!

Phew! I was thinking I wouldn't be able to make it tomorrow, this is good news!

just wanted to remind everyone that this is THIS weekend...

Worth the price of admission just to meet the fabulous Jen Leo.

like, omigod!! only ten bucks at the door and free t-shirts!? sign me up!!

sarcasm aside, i'll prolly be there. lol

Just wanted to say I went to the show today. I thought it was better than the NY Post show...there was lots more free liquor (Russian vodka, Caribbean rum....) And free frisbees, playing cards, pens, soy ice cream, calendars, and ice scrapers.

I stood about 6 inches from Rick Steves, and he is a lot taller than you might think. The guy next to me actually told him that he said a lot of people say that to him.

I also saw the "fabulous" Jen Leo, but I didn't say anything. She doesn't know me and I don't know her. But I recognized her from a pic I saw somewhere.

Nicolas Spark's seminar was very boring.

I did see free t-shirts but they ran out.

Hey Tickles, thanks for the heads up on the travel show. I went today as well, had a good time with a couple friends. I did the Rick Steves seminar which was kind of interesting. Also saw the Outdoor travel gear seminar which turned into a kayaking seminar because they couldn't get the gear guy, or something to that extent.

Walked away with quite a bite of literature, most of it will be cut to peices and posterized, although I was happy to see that the tour board of Spain was there giving out free city mapes and guides. Also if people got there early the Frommer's table was giving out free guides to New York and somehow I managed to get a free guide to Amsterdam. Don't know if that was a mistake or not. Looks new. Oh well. I also picked up a few shy of a jillion pens, quite a few pins and some stickers, a fan, yes I did get a free t-shirt , a squishy ball from Canada, the list goes on.

Oh yeah, and the frisbee lady? Yeah, she thought I shot her the head's up and when I turned around and I got a frisbee to the side of the face.

Probably the coolest thing I got all day were the business cards. Mostly the people at the booths were representatives, but I managed to make contacts with a few people with actual jobs in the company so that was a plus.

Did anyone see the circus clowns? I'm pretty sure they were the worst clowns I've ever seen.

Oh man, you got a free new york guide? that would have been cool.

Sorry about your too-close encounter with the frisbee!!!

Yeah, I saw a clown. It *was* scary!!

The most embarrassing moment was when I walked up to the Passport magazine booth and saw the nice glossy magazine and thought, "ooh, I've never seen this travel magazine before!" and I started filling out the entry for a trip to France. My boyfriend kind of mumbled quietly, "Um, that's not for you.." and I looked up at the magazines and realized it was clearly a gay travel magazine!! I felt so stupid!!!! (In fact, I just went to their website and it was called "America's #1 gay travel magazine") Doh!