Expanding Horizons: Travel Weekly
| Clockwise from top left: Cuba, Costa Rica, Panama Photo Credit: Costa Rica image courtesy of ICT Costa Rica Tourism Board. Selling New Adventures in Close-In Emerging Destinations What’s the top influence when making travel plans? For nearly three-quarters (74%) of global travelers, it’s “going somewhere I’ve never been before,” according to the 34,000 traveler respondents of TripBarometer, a December 2015 study conducted on behalf of TripAdvisor. Along those same lines, other answers in the top 10 included “being able to learn something new on a trip,” at 67%, and “trying ...