Richard Turen's Blog

Richard Turen has won more “World’s Best” Awards than any other travel consultant in the United States. In 2010, he was named “World’s Best Travel Generalist”, “World’s Best Small Luxury Cruise Ship Specialists” and “World’s Best Culinary Specialist.” by Conde Nast Traveler Magazine. Travel + Leisure Magazine named him one of “The World’s Top Ten Bespoke Vacation Planners”. In 2012, Richard became the first, and only, travel consultant in the United States to be named “World’s Top River Cruise Specialist” by the Editors of Conde Nast Traveler.

Richard enjoyed a career as an executive with Princess Cruises during the “Love Boat” years. He appears frequently on talk radio and hosted the cable television talk show “Timbuktu and Points Beyond” for thirteen years. For ten years he wrote a popular syndicated column dealing with consumer travel issues for Copley Newspapers. He is currently the Senior Contributing Editor at Travel Weekly Magazine, the travel industry’s most influential publication. He has been a dedicated advocate of consumer travel education. He is the author of three books, and has appeared on CNN, ABC, and NBC News. Richard has been featured on National Public Radio and in the pages of Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, Consumer Reports, the New York Times, and the Washington Post.