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Welcome travelers! Welcome professional travel journalists! Welcome Mensa members! Welcome TATLER readers! Welcome human rights activists! Welcome vegetarians! Welcome hipsters, hustlers, high-rollers, hyphenated scenesters, jaw-jerkin' journos, and the whole EU! Wilkommen, bienvenue, baby!  We invite you to eavesdrop on the  tips and tales that professional travel writers like to swap with each other. But shhh....don't tell a soul. 

Updated 23 September 2007

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  • Hawaii
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  • GUADALAJARA
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  • SOUTH BEACH,  MIAMI
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Roving Reporter: Debbi Kempton-Smith
Contributing Editors: April Burbage, Robert Rattner, Fern Siegel, Debra Griboff and Giles the Unflappable

 
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