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Friedheim Institute presents a Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Travel Literature

Heading to Orlando this morning for the 2017 D-Tour, a conference organized by the Eric Friedheim Tourism Institute at the University of Florida.

I am invited to the conference as one of five recipients of the Edith and Eric Friedheim Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Travel Literature. The award focuses on my 35 years of travel journalism, starting at The Plain Dealer in Cleveland and most recently at the Miami Herald, Dallas Morning News and other newspapers and websites that publish my travel columns, including TheTravelMavens.com, of which I am editor.

Award recipients also include writers William Least Heat-Moon, Michael Moran, Paulette Cooper Noble, and Les Standiford. 

We got off the cruise ship in Hong Kong, then ate some more

HONG KONG

Ducks await a roasting at Dragon Restaurant, Hong Kong (Photos by David G. Molyneaux, TheTravelMavens.com)

A parade of ducks, half a dozen plucked and ready for roasting, hung from the kitchen ceiling. Beside the ducks hung pigs, butchered and prepared for the high heat of an oven’s glowing charcoal.

The roasting of ducks and pigs was the highlight of my Hong Kong Foodie Tasting Tour, a four-hour walking meal in the culinary capital of Asia that continues to grow as a port for starting and/or ending cruises.

If you have only one or two days before or after a Hong Kong cruise, book a food tour in the Central City. These treks offer not only a great variety of local tastes, but also a peek at life in the city’s oldest district.

For North Americans who are new to traveling in and around China, Hong Kong provides an easy transition, with its western influences and language awareness, big city atmosphere with shops open late, and clean and manageable subway system and ferries.