✨Have you ever noticed that Wednesdays are promotions and discounts from our suppliers? Sandals releases their 777 deal every Wednesday. Carnival releases their “Be the Hero” deals every Wednesday. And our local consignment shop does 50% off 😆 I scored some great promo tshirts for destinations like Hawaii and Disney. Starts the conversation, but that’s another topic. 😎 Who else does Wednesday deals that you’ve seen? Yes I realize it’s Thursday today, just reflecting on yesterday. 🙃😂

You could get paid as a creator. So not technically a “seller of travel” as a Travel Advisor is, with higher commissions, certifications and errors and omissions insurance, but as an affiliate of travel products as individual items. Not terrible, but also not comprehensive, or a full itinerary. What are your thoughts?

ALIBABA 🌊 Alibaba floods market with Qwen3 model releases Image source: Alibaba The Rundown: Alibaba just released a barrage of new Qwen3 models this week, dropping six new variants across text, vision, audio, and safety — highlighted by the newly unveiled 1T parameter Qwen-Max. The details: - Max shows near-frontier capabilities in coding and agentic tasks, while its Heavy version achieves perfect scores across math reasoning benchmarks. - Omni is capable of processing text, images, audio, and video, while supporting speech understanding in 19 languages and generation in 10 languages. - VL grades out as the top non-reasoning and open-source visual model, while also surpassing top closed models on a series of benchmarks. - Alibaba also released LiveTranslate-Flash for real-time interpretation, Guard models for safety moderation, and new upgraded Coder variants.

I know I’m missing some. Comment below if you have more to add to the list. These are companies that offer cobranded or “share with client” links where the customer can book themselves and you still make the full commission.

Inspired by our conversation today during Talk Travel Tuesday. Here is my travel tip for Tuesday. 😉