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    The Erica James Travel Show

    The Erica James Travel Show is hosted by travel agent/blogger Erica James. She shares her passion for travel with podcast listeners. This is the best travel podcast for the everyday traveler, the casual traveler and the beginner traveler. Rather than encouraging you to quit your day job and travel full time, the free travel podcast encourages practical travel that makes sense in the real world. From tips about how to pack, reviews of destinations and interviews with experts, Erica James aims to help new travelers as they ease from guided trips and cruises to exploring on their own.
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    Alexis' Full Circle Travel Journey

    Alexis' Full Circle Travel Journey

    I’m joined by Alexis from Have Curves, Will Travel.

    She is a plus-size traveler breaking stereotypes, pushing boundaries, and encouraging others to travel regardless of their backgrounds.

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    Unpacking Vacation Packages: What Some People Don't Understand!

    Unpacking Vacation Packages: What Some People Don't Understand!

    Join me in this episode as we delve deep into the world of travel packages, uncovering the hidden gems and demystifying the misconceptions. Get ready to change the way you plan your next vacation and interactions with a travel agent.In this episode, Erica James unpacked how vacation packages really work and some other travel misunderstandings that she encounters with customers.

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    Passport to Paradise: Chronicles of a Travel Agent's Fam Trip

    Passport to Paradise: Chronicles of a Travel Agent's Fam Trip

    Get ready to embark on a journey like no other with 'Passport to Paradise: Chronicles of a Travel Agent's Fam Trip'! Join me, your friendly Nashville travel agent, as I take you behind the scenes of the exhilarating world of Fam Trips. 

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    #94: Support BLACK Periodt w/ Franny the Traveler

    #94: Support BLACK Periodt w/ Franny the Traveler

    In today’s episode, I will be talking to Princess Francois, aka Franny The Traveler, and we are getting into her new book, Support Black Periodt.

    By the end of this episode, you will have the tools, resources, and insights so that we can all support black businesses, intentionally.

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    #93: A Client's Experience: First All Inclusive in Jamaica

    #93: A Client's Experience: First All Inclusive in Jamaica

    In today’s episode, I will be talking to another one of my clients, Altie, and she is going to tell us about her experience staying at the Royalton White Sands Resort with her husband, two kids, and her brother-in-law and his wife.

    None of them have ever flown out of the US or stayed at an all-inclusive resort, and today we are going to get her opinions on all-inclusive resorts versus cruising, and some tips and tricks for when you want to book your all-inclusive resort vacation.

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    #92: Why Are Yall So Mad While Traveling

    #92: Why Are Yall So Mad While Traveling

    If you’ve been following travel news, you have heard about the increase in unruly passengers that have been causing delays, rerouting flights, and ruining everybody else’s plans and experiences.

    In today’s episode, I need to address those unruly passengers and get to the bottom of this.

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    #91: A Traveler's Experience: First All-Inclusive Resort

    #91: A Traveler's Experience:  First All-Inclusive Resort

    After two years of doing this podcast, I’m changing things up for this episode.

    In today’s episode, I will be talking to one of my clients, Pam, and she is going to tell us all about her experience staying at the RIU Reggae All-Inclusive Resort (which was also her first flight trip out of the US, as well as her first all-inclusive resort stay).

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    #90: If Your Luggage is Lost/Delayed

    #90: If Your Luggage is Lost/Delayed
    In episode 88, I talked about how you can minimize your chances of your luggage getting lost or delayed.

    In today’s episode, I will be talking about the things that you can do if your luggage either doesn’t arrive at your destination or arrives a few days later. This happened to one of us in our group when we travelled to Riu Baja California, and it is not the way you want to be starting your vacation.

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    #89: Riu Baja California

    #89: Riu Baja California

    Last month, I stayed at the Riu Baja California in Cabo San Lucas for 6 days, and this time I travelled for vacation and not as a travel agent.

     In this episode, I will be going through the experience I had so that you can have the information you may need to decide if you want to stay at this resort on your vacation.

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    #88: Lost Luggage

    #88: Lost Luggage

    After returning home from a trip in Cabo San Lucas with 9 other people, one person had to wait several days to receive her luggage.

    So, today’s episode is going to be about what you can do to minimise your risk of losing your luggage.

    Disclaimer: These are not 100% guaranteed to prevent your luggage being lost or delayed. They’re only to minimise your chances.

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    #87: I Stayed There: Secrets Royal Beach Punta Cana

    #87: I Stayed There: Secrets Royal Beach Punta Cana

    As you heard in Episode 86, I spoke about my stay at Impressive Premium Resort, Punta Cana. After leaving Impressive Premium, I took a taxi down the road to stay at Secrets Royal Beach, Punta Cana.

    In this episode, I will be giving you the downlow on what to expect if you decide to stay at this AAA-rated All-Inclusive resort.

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    #86: I Stayed There: Impressive Premium Resort

    #86: I Stayed There: Impressive Premium Resort

    Since the last episode, I’ve been staying at various resorts so that I can give you suggestions, advice, and insight into staying at these resorts during your travels. Even though some resorts invite me to stay there, I will always be keeping it real for my clients, so you will hear the good, the bad, and the ugly.

    In this episode, I’ll be talking about my stay at Impressive Premium Resort, Punta Cana.

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    #85: Hot Tips to Keep Family Travel Fun

    #85: Hot Tips to Keep Family Travel Fun

    In this episode, I talk to Brian Noggle, co-founder of Frankie Dean® Dream Blankets™. We are going to be talking about traveling with family - as y’all know, I’m single with no kids, so I invited Brian to share his tips for keeping family travel fun for those of you who want to get into travel with your kids.

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    #84: I'm back

    #84: I'm back

    I took some time off, and I really felt like I needed to address this.

    Many people told me not to bring attention to my hiatus and to just continue releasing episodes from where I left off, but things have happened in the last few months and I feel that I need to talk about how travel has helped me get back to where I want to be.

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    #83: Sex and Travel

    #83: Sex and Travel

    Welcome to episode 83! Today, I’m joined by writer and body image advocate, Laura Delarato.

    Today, we’re getting into all things self-love, sex, and travel. Being comfortable with has a big influence on both your sex life and your travel, and we are going to dive deep and talk about ways that you can become more comfortable with yourself so that you can live your best sex and travel life.

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    #82: Music Festival Travel with Johnny McLean

    #82: Music Festival Travel with Johnny McLean

    Today, I have a good friend of mine, podcaster, music festival connoisseur, traveller, Johnny Mclean.

    This episode is going to be so good. For the past few episodes, we’ve dedicated them to specific niches of travel, and today, we’re getting into Music Festival Travel.

    Everybody loves music. If you love music AND travel, you may want to merge the two, and music festival travel is the perfect way to do that.

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    #81: Bleisure Travel

    #81: Bleisure Travel
    Do you remember when we would travel somewhere and we would always get the question, “business or pleasure?”

    When I first graduated college, I would travel for my first job, and that was business travel. We didn’t have social media, so no one was taking advantage of all the opportunities that we now know exist. If I knew about bleisure travel, believe me, I would’ve been living my best travel life a long time ago.

    Today, if I get asked the question, “business or pleasure?”, I’m saying both business AND pleasure, which is what we’re going to talk about today, and it’s known as Bleisure Travel.

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    #80: Marijuana Tourism: How You Can Center Your Travel Around Weed

    #80: Marijuana Tourism: How You Can Center Your Travel Around Weed

    It’s episode 80, y’all!

    I feel like we know each other well enough now, right?

    Today’s episode is going to be all about cannabis tourism, and because we know each other so well, I’m going to be calling it weed as well.

    It is March 28th, which is National Weed Appreciation Day (not the kind of weed we’re talking about today), and that gave me the idea to find out everything I could about cannabis and tourism, and let me tell you - it’s been enlightening!

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    #79: Wellness Travel

    #79: Wellness Travel

    Today, we’re taking a few deep breaths and talking about wellness travel.

    According to the Wellness Tourism Association, wellness travel is “travel that allows the traveler to maintain, enhance, or kickstart a healthy lifestyle, and support or increase one’s sense of wellbeing.”

    It is so important to live inward, find ourselves, and experience true wellbeing, and if you’ve been listening to the podcast for a while, you know how many guests have said that travel is the best way to discover who you are, down to your core.

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    #78: How to Center Your Travel Around Sports

    #78: How to Center Your Travel Around Sports

    People go on vacations for all sorts of reasons.

    From people who like history to people who like going on wellness vacations, ski vacations, and beach vacations, there is a vacation to cater to anyone’s interests.

    That includes sports. This is a theme that not many people talk about, so I’m going to talk about it today.

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