Eye on Travel with Peter Greenberg

This week's episode of Travel Today with Peter Greenberg comes from Paradisus Playa del Carmen La Esmeralda in Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico. Joining Peter Greenberg this week is Historian Tiziana Roma, with a report on the real story behind the Mayan ruins and their physical foundations as well as the state’s ports. Roberto Diaz, President and Founder of the Underwater Museum of Art (MUS...

This week, Travel Today with Peter Greenberg comes from Hotel Les Mars in Healdsburg, California. Joining Peter Greenberg will be Ray Holley, Managing Editor at Sonoma West Publishers, on his 30 years in Sonoma and dealing with growth management and the preservation of Healdsburg. And Julie Pedroncelli, third-generation owner of her family’s Pedroncelli winery, on the history of winemaking in the...

This week, Travel Today with Peter Greenberg comes from Buenos Aires and the annual World Travel and Tourism Council Global Summit. Joining Peter is Marriott CEO Arne Sorensen, who talks about Marriott's rapid expansion worldwide and the staggering number of hotels they are building daily. Costas Christ, Editor at Large for National Geographic Traveler, speaks about the importance of and a new def...

This week, Travel Today with Peter Greenberg comes from the Camino Real Polanco in Mexico City, Mexico. The Project Manager of Frida Kahlo and the Anahuacalli Museums, stops by to talk about the legendary Frida Kahlo’s history and the mark she left on Mexico.  Peter Davies, Senior Writer at Mexico News Daily, talks about living in the Mexican capital and what brought him over from Australia. He sh...

This week, Travel Today with Peter Greenberg comes from Mazatlan, in the state of Sinaloa, Mexico. Joining Peter Greenberg is Enrique de la Madrid, the Mexico Secretary of Tourism, who stops to discuss the current status — and the messaging — of U.S. State Department advisories throughout Mexico and also discusses his views on the legalization of marijuana. Quirino Ordaz Coppel, the Governor of Si...

This week, Travel Today with Peter Greenberg comes from Delray Beach Marriott in Delray Beach, Florida. Joining the program is Rob Steele, President & CEO of Old School Square who speaks about how he's repurposed a number of schools in the local area. Then, Charlene Farrington, Director of the Spady Cultural Heritage Museum stops by to give an inside look at the museum she looks at that honors...

This week, Travel Today with Peter Greenberg comes from The Breakers in Palm Beach, Florida. Joining the program is historian and author of Palm Beach: The Essential Guide to America’s Legendary Resort Town, Rick Rose, with his take on why Palm Beach is so different from the rest of Florida (not to mention the world). Then, Palm Beach Post Columnist Frank Cerabino gives his reasons to move and sta...

This week, Travel Today with Peter Greenberg comes from the AmaKristina riverboat in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Joining the program is Chairman and CEO of Virtuoso, Matthew Upchurch, on changes in travel patterns and travelers’ expectations, and the responsibility of sustainability in tourism. Mina Solanki, Editor of IAmExpat, discusses the expat life in the Netherlands and her special secrets of Ams...

This week, Travel Today with Peter Greenberg comes from the Statler Dallas in Dallas, Texas. Larry Horwitz, Executive Director of the Historic Hotels of America explains the significance of Statler Dallas in the travel industry as well as the importance of the hotels across the country in the historic hotels portfolio. In addition, curator for the Dallas Historical Society, Alan Olsen, highlights...

This week's episode of Travel Today with Peter Greenberg comes from the Sofitel Philadelphia in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Joining Peter Greenberg is Chief Astronomer and Director of the Fels Planetarium at The Franklin Institute, Derrick Pitts, shares on the advances in technology and space tourism. James Claiborne from the Philadelphia African American Museum gives information about what makes...

This week, Travel Today with Peter Greenberg comes from the Sagamore Pendry Baltimore in Baltimore, Maryland—a great new hotel on the city’s waterfront. Joining the program is Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh, who speaks about Baltimore’s renaissance and how the city has been transformed. It’s a story of Baltimore’s dedication to preserving—and then presenting—its history. It’s also about the transf...

This week, Travel Today with Peter Greenberg comes from the Anaheim Marriott in Anaheim, California. Joining the program this week is Orange County Register Columnist, Marla Jo Fisher, who talks about her secrets to Disneyland, and a sobering statistic involving growing crowds: it is estimated that 1 million people now have annual passes. Speaking of Disney fanatics, Peter Greenberg is joined by J...

This week, Travel Today with Peter Greenberg comes from Hotel El Ganzo in Los Cabos, Baja California Sur in Mexico. Located 20 minutes from the San Jose International Airport, this creative center or “think tank”-turned-hotel showcases the work of different artists who have stayed there. Joining Peter Greenberg this week is Judith Castro, Conservationist for Cabo Pulmo National Park & Communit...

This week, Travel Today with Peter Greenberg comes from the Jewel Grande Montego Bay Resort and Spa in Montego Bay in Jamaica. Paul Clammer, Author of Lonely Planet Jamaica, gives Peter Greenberg an update on all things Jamaica as well as his own list of secret and hidden gems. Janet Silvera, Senior Writer for The Gleaner, explains why she thinks Montego Bay is the safest place to be and the impor...

This week Travel Today with Peter Greenberg comes from the Mandarin Oriental in Washington D.C., just two miles away from Capitol Hill. Joining Peter Greenberg is Sara Bloomfield, Director of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Alan Parente, Creative Director of Exhibitions & Global Experiences at National Geographic Museum, who shares some recently declassified information on the R.M....

This Super Bowl weekend, Travel Today with Peter Greenberg comes from The Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota. The original mega mall sits on 78 acres of land formerly occupied by the Minnesota Twins and Vikings and draws over 40 million visitors a year. Five-term Bloomington Mayor Gene Winstead discusses Super Bowl madness in Minnesota. Dave Mona, Host of The Sports Huddle on WCCO Radio, di...

This week, Travel Today with Peter Greenberg comes from The St. Regis Washington, D.C., the legendary & historic hotel just two blocks from the White House. We'll be taking an expanded look at the exploding food scene in the nation's capital. Next month the hotel opens Alhambra, a restaurant featuring modern Mediterranean cuisine using fresh local ingredients and partnering with local purveyor...

This week’s broadcast of Travel Today with Peter Greenberg comes from Hutchinson Shores Resort & Spa? in Martin County, Florida. Mark D. Perry, Executive Director of Florida Oceanographic Society?, speaks about how travelers can be a part of the Society’s hands-on activities, including ways to watch turtles nest. Ed Killer, Outdoors Columnist for Treasure Coast Newspapers & USA TODAY Netwo...

This week’s broadcast of Travel Today with Peter Greenberg comes from the Montage Palmetto Bluff in Bluffton, South Carolina, a true luxury resort nestled within a community surrounded by 20,000 acres of maritime forest. I'll report on the latest State Department warning classifications and my picks for the hot spots of 2018. Joining us this week is Lisa Sulka, the Mayor of Bluffton, South Carolin...

This week, Travel Today with Peter Greenberg comes from aboard the brand new flagship of MSC Cruises—the Seaside—sailing out of PortMiami in Miami, Florida. A truly new design, the ship boasts more outdoor space than any other ship at sea, complete with the widest waterfront boardwalk. Anne Kalosh, US Editor of Seatrade Cruise News, provides a firsthand report of the cruise industry. Celebrity Che...

This week, Travel Today with Peter Greenberg comes from the newly reopened and renovated Ritz-Carlton in the heart of downtown Cleveland, Ohio. Joining Peter Greenberg this week is Cleveland city historian John Grabowski to talk about the city’s real hidden gems and the fight Clevelanders are winning to preserve them. Heather Lemonedes, Chief Curator of the Cleveland Art Museum, reveals stories be...

This week, Travel Today with Peter Greenberg comes from Zota Beach Resort in Bradenton Gulf Islands, Florida. This week, Cathy Slusser, Author & Director of Historical Resources for the Manatee County, reveals her favorite part of the Florida Maritime Museum, and Joan Krauter, Executive Editor at the Bradenton Herald, discusses Bradenton's explosive population growth, and what that means for t...

This week, Travel Today with Peter Greenberg comes from the Fairmont Monte Carlo in the Principality of Monaco on the Côte d’Azur. This week, Monaco-based food, wine, and travel writer Louise Simpson discusses what it takes to be considered Monégasque and what it’s like adapting to the small and glamorous society of Monaco. Trent Walsh, Founder of Leading Quality Assurance (LQA), reveals a few of...

This week, Travel Today with Peter Greenberg comes from the United NationsWorld Tourism Organization's Global Conference in Montego Bay, Jamaica. This year, the summit focused on sustainable tourism in a world dominated by disruption. Edmund Bartlett, Jamaica’s Tourism Minister, joins the show to discuss the prevailing geographical ignorance about the Caribbean, even though it’s one of the biggest...

This week, Travel Today with Peter Greenberg comes from The Hay-Adams Hotel in Washington, D.C. Named after the property's two most distinguished residents, John Hay and Henry Adams. The Hay-Adams has been a major fixture in Washington since 1928 with a strategic location in Lafayette Square with a view overlooking the Washington Monument and White House. The Hay-Adams has accommodated guests such...