Synopsis
A weekly roundtable discussion on travel news and the travel industry with leading travel writers, bloggers and podcasters.
Episodes
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05/03/2021 Duration: 01h06minThis Week in Travel – Travel News Podcast. Regular hosts Gary Arndt and Jen Leo. CO-HOST EMERITUS: Chris is the host of the Amateur Traveler which is an award-winning online travel show that focuses primarily on travel destinations. It includes a weekly audio podcast, a video podcast, and a blog. In 2014, Chris won a Lowell Thomas Award for Travel Journalism from the Society of American Travel Writers and was called the "Best Independent Travel Journalist" by Travel & Leisure Magazine in their annual SMITTY Awards. He has worked for years in technology startups in Silicon Valley. He was formerly the Director of Engineering for TripAdvisor's New Initiatives group and was the EVP Engineering at LiveWorld where his team built and ran online communities and events for companies including eBay, HBO, TV Guide, Expedia, Marriott, A&E, History Channel, the NBA, NBC, ABC, Disney, Microsoft, WebTV, and American Express. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Become a Fan on Facebook | Download This Week’s News: U.
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#269 - San Diego and Covid Travel
14/11/2020 Duration: 01h02minThis Week in Travel - Travel News Podcast. Regular hosts Gary Arndt, Jen Leo, and Chris Christensen are joined by this week's guest travel writer David Swanson from https://www.100sandiego.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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#268 - Home in Oklahoma City
19/10/2020 Duration: 01h14minThis Week in Travel - Travel News Podcast. Regular hosts Gary Arndt, Jen Leo, Spud Hilton, and Chris Christensen are joined by this week's guest: Robert Reid from reidontravel.com who has left travel writing for a variety of reasons and returned to Oklahoma. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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#267 - Take a Schoolcation
29/09/2020 Duration: 01h17minThis Week in Travel – Travel News Podcast. Regular hosts Gary Arndt, Jen Leo, and Spud Hilton are joined by this week’s guest: Jen Campbell Boles is the owner and Chief Exploration Officer of Explore More Family Travel, a boutique travel agency Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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#266 - Sparn Farkle of Podcasts
06/09/2020 Duration: 01h08minThis Week in Travel - Travel News Podcast. Regular hosts Gary Arndt, Jen Leo, and Chris Christensen are joined by this week's guest Nora Dunn from The Professional Hobo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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#265 - Welcome to the USA
20/08/2020 Duration: 01h17minThis Week in Travel - Travel News Podcast. Regular hosts Gary Arndt, Spud Hilton, and Chris Christensen are joined by this week's guest: Caz and Craig Makepeace from the yTravel blog Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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#264 - The Future of Travel
11/08/2020 Duration: 01h25minThis Week in Travel - Travel News Podcast. Regular hosts Gary Arndt, Jen Leo, Spud Hilton, and Chris Christensen are joined by this week's guest Robert Cole. Robert is a hotel and hospitality consultant at RockCheetah. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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#263 - Where to Go and When
23/06/2020 Duration: 01h08minThis Week in Travel – Travel News Podcast. Regular hosts Gary Arndt, Jen Leo, and Chris Christensen are joined by this week’s guest: SPECIAL GUEST BIO: Sherry Ott is a long term traveler, blogger, and photographer with one goal in mind - to make you wish you were somewhere else. She writes about her travel lifestyle and around the world adventures on Ottsworld.com and her social media channels. She continues to seek out epic adventures to intriguing places in order to challenge herself and inspire people to overcome their fears and reap the benefits of travel. Where to Go & When ebook - https://bold-grass-4654.ck.page/2d3f7584ec Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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#262 - Stranded in India (#3)
17/04/2020 Duration: 01h35minSPECIAL GUEST BIO: Anietra Hamper is an award-winning travel writer and photographer with a penchant for outdoor adventure and fishing for some of the largest fish in the world. Prior to writing for travel publications, Anietra spent 18 years as a top-rated, EMMY nominated television news Anchor and investigative reporter. Anietra takes a “boots-on-the-ground” journalistic approach to all of her stories to provide authentic information from actual experiences. Anietra is passionate about adventure. Whether she is fishing for the giant wels catfish in Spain, trekking glaciers in Iceland, breaking angling records in Thailand, rafting Class V rapids in West Virginia, shrimping in Louisiana or hiking the jungles of Cambodia, this is how Anietra prefers to experience new destinations. Anietra currently resides in Columbus, Ohio with her dog Sunny. You can find out more about Anietra’s travels, photography, blog and next extreme fishing adventure at www.threewordpress.com. Anietra tells us her incredible story o
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#261 - Coronavirus
13/03/2020 Duration: 01h10minThis Week in Travel - Travel News Podcast. Regular hosts Gary Arndt, Jen Leo, Spud Hilton, and Chris Christensen talk about the Coronavirus Covid-19 and its impact on life, travel, and the travel industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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#260 - The Good Road TV Show on PBS
29/01/2020 Duration: 01h04minThis Week in Travel – Travel News Podcast. Regular hosts Gary Arndt, Chris Christensen, and Jen Leo are joined by this week’s guests: Earl Bridges and Craig Martin, long time philanthropy veterans, globetrotters, and best friends, are co-hosts of the new PBS Travel Series THE GOOD ROAD. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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#259 - 2020
20/01/2020 Duration: 01h11minThis Week in Travel - Travel News Podcast. Regular hosts Gary Arndt, Jen Leo, Spud Hilton, and Chris Christensen talk about 2019 and 2020. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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#258 - Language Learning
08/12/2019 Duration: 48minThis Week in Travel - Travel News Podcast. Regular hosts Jen Leo, Spud Hilton, and Chris Christensen are joined by this week's guest: Steve Kaufmann who is a retired ex-diplomat, founder of two companies, YouTuber, and polyglot. He spends most of his time on YouTube these days, speaking about language learning (he speaks around 20 languages). He now has an app LingQ. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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#257 Travel to North Korea
13/11/2019 Duration: 01h08minThis Week in Travel - Travel News Podcast. Regular hosts Gary Arndt, Jen Leo, Spud Hilton, and Chris Christensen are joined by this week's guest: Stephen Harris author of Traveling Through North Korea: Adventures in the Hermit Kingdom and bigbeaverdiaries.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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#256 - World's Cheapest Destinations
26/10/2019 Duration: 01h07minThis Week in Travel - Travel News Podcast. Regular hosts Gary Arndt, and Chris Christensen are joined by this week's guest: Travel Writer Tim Leffel from PracticalTravelGear.com, PerceptiveTravel.com, and CheapLivingAbroad.com, author of The World's Cheapest Destination. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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#255 - 10 Year Anniversary, Live at TBEX in Billings Montana
05/10/2019 Duration: 01h52minThis Week in Travel. Regular hosts Gary Arndt, Jen Leo, Spud Hilton, and Chris Christensen This special episode was recorded live at the TBEX travel blogging conference in Billings Montana and marks the 10th anniversary since the show started. We are joined by this week's guests: Palle Bo from The Radio Vagabond Rick Calvert from TBEX Jesse Guidry from Lafayette Convention and Visitors Commission Alyson Murnion from Visit Billings Caz and Craig Makepeace from ytravelblog.com Tony Price and Jim Scott from Friends That Carry On Nora Dunn from The Professional Hobo Angie and Rachel Orth from Angie Away and the Jet Sisters video series Corey Lee from Curb Free with Corey Lee Susan Bejeckian from Solomon Islands Visitors Colleen Lanin from Travel Mamas Dreya Coleman from @namedtodream Sonja Hoyt from Happy Travel Bug Priya Vin from Outside Suburbia Kerwin McKenzie from Passrider.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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#254 - From Alaska to Argentina by Bike
16/08/2019 Duration: 01h52minThis Week in Travel - Travel News Podcast. Regular hosts Spud Hilton, Jen Leo, and Chris Christensen are joined by this week's guest: Chris Haag from theplacesipee.com We talk about Chris and his wife's epic two-year bike journey from Alaska to Argentina. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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#253 - Cheap Flights
10/08/2019 Duration: 01h06minThis Week in Travel - Travel News Podcast. Regular hosts Spud Hilton, Jen Leo, and Chris Christensen are joined by this week's guest: Scott Keyes from Scott's Cheap Flights Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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#252 - Indian Ocean Journeys
27/07/2019 Duration: 01h16minThis Week in Travel - Travel News Podcast. Regular hosts Gary Arndt, Jen Leo, Spud Hilton, and Chris Christensen are joined by this week's guest: David H. Mould travel writer and author of the recent book Monsoon Postcards: Indian Ocean Journeys Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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#251 - Life as an Expat
20/07/2019 Duration: 52minThis Week in Travel - Travel News Podcast. Regular hosts Gary Arndt, Jen Leo, and Chris Christensen are joined by this week's guest: Sarah Mikutel, travel podcaster at Postcard Academy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices