Travel Matters

TBEX CEO Rick Calvert picks up The Radio Vagabond, Palle Bo, in Tri-Cities, and on a drive, through the beautiful city, they talk about the pleasure of driving all the way from Southern California to here and back. Later they sit down with a view of the Colombia River and talk about what to expect from the first TBEX conference in more than two years. TBEX North America is just a few days away; th...

Get the scoop on where and when the next TBEX Europe will take place. Listen now, and get the news before anyone else.

We have missed you! Listen to this episode of Travel Matters, and read the newsletter from Rick below:  We hope you have been safe and healthy throughout the last year and are looking forward to traveling again soon. We are very optimistic about the future of travel and TBEX events. This is going to be a long one but there is good news so please stay with me.  The last several months the vaccine d...

Welcome to the second episode of Travel Matters.  Rick Calvert and Palle Bo talk about  TBEX North America  2019 in Billings, Montana. How did it go, and how was it different than previous events? Rick reveals that there were more older people than usual.   TIPS FOR FIRST TIMERS There were many new faces again this year, and we talk to Kerwin McKenzie who did a pre-session for TBEX first-timers. ...

This is a quick bonus episode, where TBEX CEO, Rick Calbert shares some breaking news about upcoming TBEX events. See more on TBEXcon.com Travel Matters is hosted by The Radio Vagabond , Palle Bo and TBEX CEO, Rick Calbert, and produced by RadioGuru .

Today our guest is Martinique Lewis one of the founders of Black Travel Alliance. Martinique is a digital disrupter in love with all things travel. She is a TBEX Speaker Alum and has been in the travel industry for three years now as a creator, a diversity in travel consultant, and as an influencer and creator manager.  Martinique tells us how  Black Travel Alliance  was formed and the mission of...

Our guest for this episode is TBEX North America Conference Director Tim Leffel. Tim started backpacking around the world and writing for travel magazines as a freelancer in the mid-1990s. He has published several books and now runs five different websites.  Tim joins us today to talk about the results from a recent survey he conducted asking 160 travel writers and DMOs what they about  The Future...

In this special episode, Leslie Walker founder of Tourism Worx shares 15 things DMO's travel brands and content creators can do right now to help seem them through the Covid19 crisis.  She shares the example of how the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum used transparency and being human to gain tens of thousands of new followers when they put a security guard in charge of social media whe...

In this episode, we talk continue talking with several TBEX Europe attendees who still went to Catania Italy after TBEX Europe 2020 had been postponed. We will hear about their impressions of Sicily and Catania; what it was like to be traveling when the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the entire country of Italy on March 10th; How they got home and how things are on the ground where they are now.  The...

In this episode, we talk to several TBEX Europe attendees who still went to Catania after the event was postponed. They share their impressions of Sicily and Catania. They share what it was like to be traveling when the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the entire country of Italy. Little did anyone know this was just the second step in the CoronaVirus' march across the world. They also share how they g...

In this episode, we talk about COVID19's impact on the travel industry and our daily lives. We start with how fast the pandemic spread in Italy, and our decision-making process to reschedule TBEX Europe 2020 in Catania Italy. We also talk about new dates for TBEX Europe 2020. We then have an in-depth discussion with Angelo Carotenuto; Founder and CEO of LivItaly Tours . Angelo is joining us from R...

In this episode we speak with Keith and Tina Paul from Retire Early And Travel . As they write on their about page , they are lovers of travel and wine. Fueled by their passion for learning, experiencing other cultures, and meeting people, they want to see the world. They consider themselves forever students. Keith and Tina have been together since they were 18. They  believe in collecting memorie...

In this episode of Travel Matters, Rick Calvert talks to Michael Collins from TravelMedia.ie . TravelMedia.ie is a full service public relations, marketing, events, communications and travel trade representation company, founded in 2006, and managed by Michael Collins. The company is one of Europe's leading travel media companies – specialising in PR, events, media buying, strategic advice, indust...

This is the first episode of Travel Matters, the official podcast from TBEX. Here we introduce the two hosts, Rick Calvert, CEO of TBEX and Palle Bo, The Radio Vagabond .  We also speak to Travel Camel , Shane Dallas, conference director of TBEX Europe about what is coming up on the conference in Catania, Sicily, Italy in March 2020.  And of course a bit about the upcoming event, TBEX North Americ...