Arnie Weissmann

On a recent trip to Australia, I found that a ubiquitous local practice increased my engagement significantly. The U.S. can do it, too.

Consumer losses to travel scams have tripled in the past five years and, I discovered, advisors' clients aren't immune. But on the other side of the world, I experienced how a hotel's small gestures bring a brief, unexpected respite from a world beset by worry.

This summer -- Australia’s winter -- explorer at large Arnie Weissmann traversed the country in a straight line (more or less), crossing tropical, subtropical, arid and temperate zones.

In retrospect, pre-9/11 feels like an innocent time. In the 25 years since, the industry has learned it could face an unprecedented existential crisis and survive.

The executives said a match of cultures convinced them that this opportunity is going to work out. The opportunity? Taking the Sandals and Beaches brands global.

At a World Economic Forum conference on travel, travel technology executives envisioned and articulated a critical role for advisors well into the future.

At a World Economic Forum discussion on seamless travel, tech leaders argued that advisors may become even more valuable in an AI-powered future.

Arnie Weissmann spent 12 days at Peru's Boiling River to help a scientist evaluate how tourism might help, or hurt, a threatened natural phenomenon.

Lessons in transformational travel: A man in Peru talks "like a madman" to a huge jungle tree. The tree responds.

What's it like at the Boiling River and its surrounding junglescape? Meet the people who study it and the birds, bugs, flora, fauna and one very venomous caterpillar who call it home.