Tripadvisor and Phocuswright recently released a joint report reviewing consumer travel behavioral trends throughout 2020: A Year in Travel: Charting the Travel Industry’s Path to Recovery (free and publicly available)... The 12 Days of Christmas start on Christmas Day and last until the evening of the 5th January. The 12 Days have been celebrated in Europe since before the middle ages and were a time of celebration.

Tripadvisor and Phocuswright have been tracking travel trends since the start of the pandemic using both quantitative research data and website behavioral data. A Tripadvisor report released in June 2020, Beyond COVID-19: The Road to Recovery for the Travel Industry, identified five stages to recovery.

Twelfth Night was a time of great celebration with people holding large parties. During these parties, often the roles in society were reversed with the servants being served by the rich people. This dated back to medieval and Tudor times when Twelfth Night marked the end of ‘winter’ which had started on 31st October with All Hallows Eve (Halloween).

The middle of winter has long been a time of celebration around the world. Centuries before the arrival of the man called Jesus, early Europeans celebrated light and birth in the darkest days of winter.

This season, join us at Traveling Boy as we take a look at the different Christmas and holiday traditions around the globe.

In their letters to Santa Claus, kids across the US are still asking for toys, clothes, Legos and video games. But in a year filled with illness and uncertainty, a review of letters addressed to the North Pole and collected through the Post Office’s Operation Santa program reveals the pandemic is weighing heavily on children.

Jonah wants nothing from Santa this year except for a cure for coronavirus. Anthony told Santa he wants a magical button he could press to transport him away from the weary reality of the pandemic. Jasmyne’s Christmas list is short and to the point. “This year, I would like end of Covid-19, world peace, climate control, new Xbox,” it reads.

It’s travel award season on the island of Ireland! In recent weeks, the island has been awarded a number of exciting accolades. Both Dublin and Galway have topped the Condé Nast friendliest cities in Europe list, while EPIC The Irish Immigration Museum has been awarded Europe’s Leading Tourist Attraction by the World Travel Awards for the second year running.

The Horror Film Franchise started out scary and clever but devolved into cheap thrills trash. John Carpenter dominated horror films for years, yet like most genres it has exploded with sub-genres of films that can still interrupt a good sleep. Holly Dracula, there are too many good ones out there!

The top horror films as compiled by the TBoy Spciety of Film & Music.