Trip-o-ra-ti (Trip-a-ra-tE)
Noun plural
1. persons interested and educated in trip planning
2. the trip planning experts.
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Using a unique technology infrastructure, we match your personal travel preferences with destination information culled from recognized travel experts who have traveled the world, and bring their combined expertise only to Triporati, so you can find great ideas for new places to explore. And, we'll also let you know about all the best travel deals that can get you to those places.
Triporati's board of travel experts has worked to generate a detailed profile of hundreds of destinations from around the world, including where to go, what to see and do, and how to get the most for your travel dollar.
By matching your personalized set of activities, interests, and settings to destinations you may have never heard of, we open up new possibilities to discover and explore. After all, informed travel is the one way we all have to make the world a little friendlier, as we share insights and understandings of new places and new people, things that make us different, and things that make us the same.
Triporati's team of travel experts has years of experience exploring and writing about the world's most interesting destinations. Now they are sharing that insider information with you.
Meet some of our experts or click here to meet all our experts.
| Conner Gorry | |
 | Author of over a dozen Lonely Planet guides, freelance writer Conner Gorry's first foreign adventure was to Vieques at age 8. The formative experience ignited a fascination with Latin America which, three decades on, is a way of life. Following her mother's advice that money spent on education and travel is money well spent, Conner received a BA in Latin American Studies from NYU and an MA in Political Science from the Monterey Institute of International Studies - both unforgettable in part because of the monster monthly bills that continue to roll in. A little too much money well spent perhaps After writing encyclopedias for a time and churning out features for the San Francisco Chronicle and others, she landed on Lonely Planet's roster, realizing her traveling-working dreams. Her guidebook writing duties have taken her all over the Western Hemisphere, from post-civil war Guatemala to post 9/11 NYC; up Big Island Volcanoes and down Bolivia's (and the world's) "Most Dangerous Road." She paddled her way along the Na Pali Coast in a kayak and picked along Cuba's secret beaches barefoot. She has frolicked with leatherbacks in the Galapagos and spotted Harpy eagles in Venezuela. In 2006, she finally made it to Panama. Conner currently calls Havana home, where she smokes a daily cigar and works as a journalist and editor for MEDICC Review, Cuba Health Reports, Cuba Absolutely, and other publications. Future travel itineraries include The Yucatan, Panama, and Ireland. |
| Larry Habegger | |
 | Larry Habegger is Triporati's managing editor and cofounder and executive editor of Travelers' Tales, where he has edited dozens of books including Travelers' Tales Australia, India, Ireland and Thailand. He is a writer, editor, journalist, and teacher who has been covering the world since his international travels began in the 1970s. As a freelance writer for almost three decades and syndicated columnist since 1985, his work has appeared in many major newspapers and magazines, including the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Travel & Leisure, and Outside. In 1993 he cofounded the award-winning Travelers' Tales Books where he has helped oversee the development of the company's publishing program and has worked on all of its 100-plus books. He is also author of the safety and security column World Travel Watch that since 1985 has appeared in newspapers in five countries and on travel web sites. Habegger is an inspiring writing teacher and coach, emphasizing the craft and art of the personal travel story. He regularly teaches at writing conferences and in private workshops. Get more information at LarryHabegger.com, TravelersTales.com, and BestTravelWriting.com. |
| David Stanley | |
 | David Stanley has spent much of the past three decades on the road. He has crossed six continents overland and visited 193 of the planet's 245 countries and territories. His travel guidebooks to the South Pacific, Micronesia, Alaska, Eastern Europe, and Cuba opened those areas to budget travelers for the first time. For his first trip across the Pacific in 1978, Stanley bought the longest ticket ever issued in Canada by Pan American Airways. Since then he has returned many times, visiting and revisiting the islands. His career as a travel writer began with the letters he wrote to Bill Dalton and Tony Wheeler, the pioneers of budget travel to Asia in the 1970s. That feedback soon led to guides of his own, published by Avalon Travel Publishing and Lonely Planet. With over a million copies sold, he's still on the road writing guidebooks. Though Stanley has traveled widely and become a specialist on many parts of the world, he always keeps returning to his favorite area, the South Pacific. One of the biggest treats for a guidebook writer is meeting people who are using a handbook. David researches his books incognito and the "mystery shopper" approach means he can't always admit who he is, but it's still fun hearing what unsuspecting readers think of the book. The author of Moon Fiji, Moon Tahiti, and Moon South Pacific, Stanley enjoys receiving mail from those who have used his guides. His website www.southpacific.org provides contact details. Also see his photo site, Pacific-Pictures.com. |
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