About Gary Leff

Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel - a topic he has covered since 2002. Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by Conde' Nast Traveler (2010-Present) Gary has been a guest on most major news media, profiled in several top print publications, and published broadly on the topic of consumer loyalty. More About Gary »

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You Don’t Need to Speak Anything But English When You Travel the World

Jun 30 2017

My language skills are quite poor. I was never very good at Hebrew, though I studied it sat in class clueless over it for several years. I was never very good at Spanish, though I took it in school for six years. I was always better at reading it than speaking it, and once someone got into a conversational pace I was done for.

The good news is you can travel effectively almost anywhere in the world without speaking anything other than English (go ahead – flame me!).

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Use Your Points to Learn Skills From the World’s Experts

Jun 28 2017

Since acquiring Starwood, Marriott has been making baby steps towards learning from the strong affinity that members have for the Starwood Preferred Guest program and creating a single unified program which will require IT work and owner buy in.

Early on, in a nod to the SPG program, Marriott Rewards added 4pm late checkout for Golds and Platinums and introduced experiential redemptions.

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