FROM THE EDITOR
Where in the World is
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Bob Rouse
Editor
101 Prosperous Place, Suite 350
Lexington, KY 40509 USA
+1.859.264.6548
[email protected]
EMAIL IS AWESOME … and maddening. At work I depend
on electronic mail to exchange information and to stay in
touch with colleagues, but with the welcomed notes come the
unsolicited.
As the editor of a travel-industry magazine, I’m frequently
asked to provide editorial coverage about a variety of topics.
Some of these emailed letters and news releases are exactly
what I would expect to receive: new travel product and pro-
grams, industry updates, new hires, etc. I file away the emails
that I want to keep (info from NTA members, especially), for-
ward those that are relevant to colleagues, and trash the rest.
“The rest” are those e-blasts that miss the mark: announce-
ments from nonmembers, pitches for services and products
that Courier won’t cover—and anything in ALL CAPS.
Sometimes, though, an unsolicited email is from a real per-
son and intentionally sent to me (another real person). Two
individuals, a publisher and a publicist, discovered the Courier
editorial calendar several months ago and knew we were cov-
ering San Antonio. They offered me books, and I accepted them
as preparatory research for our upcoming Travel Exchange.
By reading “Goliad: The Other Alamo,” I learned about the
1836 battles that shaped Texas. From “River City Dead,” a
murder mystery, I gained a surprising amount of informa-
tion about modern-day San Antonio. And in digesting “San
Antonio Classic Desserts,” (featuring full-color, mouth-water-
ing photos), I got hungry.
On a recent trip to Germany, Doug Rentz, NTA communication
and marketing manager, is a vision of solitude at Eagle’s Nest
in Berchtesgaden. And then he found the Hacker-Pschorr beer
tent at Munich Oktoberfest.
This month’s Courier is your preparatory research for Travel
Exchange in San Antonio. Gabe Webb has assembled a hefty
section, starting on page 28, that tutors you on all aspects of
our December convention.
Kendall Fletcher reflects on her journey to Clarksville,
Tennessee, for that city’s Welcome Home Veterans celebration,
pages 22 and 23. Pat Henderson covers an entire quadrant of
North America: America’s Historic East, starting on page 50,
and Atlantic Canada, pages 56 and 57.
I think you’ll like reading about the funding crisis faced
by our friends in Wilmington, Delaware (only because it has
a happy ending); it starts on page 18. In this month’s City
Spotlight (pages 24 to 27), I recap a trip to New Orleans, and in
AfterWords on page 80, Gabe writes about his Tourism Cares
experience in Providence, Rhode Island.
Before I let you go, I want to clarify my position on emails:
I welcome yours. Tell me what you’d like us to cover, and let
me know what you like reading in Courier. Do stay away from
all caps in the subject line, though.
(And regarding desserts, San Antonio-made and otherwise:
We in the Courier office value samples over recipes.)
Read on,
November Courier Destination Index
Australia 20, 60 North Dakota 20
Guam 60 Nova Scotia 57
Hawaii 61 Pennsylvania 51
Indiana 72 Prince Edward Island 56
Jamaica 58 Puerto Rico 58
Martinique 58 Québec 73
Maryland 52 Tennessee 22–23
Nevada 21 Texas 36–37
New Brunswick 57 Utah 72
New Orleans 24–27 Virginia 53–54
Newfoundland
& Labrador 56 Washington, D.C. 50
4
November 2017
Wisconsin 73
On the cover:
“The Saga,” a video installation by
Xavier de Richemont, tells a stylized
history of San Antonio on the facade
of the San Fernando Cathedral.
Photo: CC Flickr/Geoff Livingston:
bit.ly/2yjASg2