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Originating from China, the Lunar New Year is the biggest celebration in many parts of Asia. I reckon there’re probably a couple of billion people celebrating right now! As in Chinese tradition, we wish everyone peace and happiness in this Year of the Rabbit. This year, our wishes particularly go out to another part of the world, to the people of Egypt as we send our good thoughts and wishes for a peaceful outcome in their historic moment of transition.

The Zicasso team wishes you much peace and great joy during this holiday season. We're celebrating the diversity of cultures and traditions of different countries, and our discovery of them when we travel! We wanted to share this blog post contributed by our guest blogger, Rod White:

The Zicasso team wishes everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving. With gratitude and appreciation, we want to thank our community of travelers as well as travel specialist partners. At Zicasso, we celebrate the harvest of wonderful memories and indelible experiences that come from our travels.

As we reflect on gratitude during this holiday, we wanted to share this blog post contributed by our guest blogger, Rod White.

Today, my copy of the October Travel + Leisure magazine came in the mail and it was a pleasure to see Zicasso featured in the "Best Travel Websites" story. This is the second time we’ve received this honor in the last two years during the young history of our company.

Hi everyone,

Just a quick note: It's been rather quiet here on this blog because we're finding that Facebook is a better medium for us to reach out and give updates, share insights on travel tips, destinations, etc.

We invite you to check our regular posts on our Zicasso Page on Facebook. And we'd be honored if you click on the "Like" button to follow us there. We do our best to ensure that if you like authentic, experiential travel, you'll enjoy our posts :)

Brian Tan
Founder & CEO

Chinese New Year is celebrated with great food. Conde Nast Traveler claims Vancouver to have the best Chinese food in the world!

Where on the planet have you discovered the best Chinese food?

Happy Chinese New Year to everyone! It's also Vietnamese, Korean, and Tibetan New Year...so many celebrations. If you haven't made your new year resolutions, it's not too late to do them today :)

To learn more about the history of Chinese New Year, check out this informative site by History.com: http://www.history.com/content/chinesenewyear

We're happy to share that we've now got a Zicasso Facebook Page and we'd love it if you can become a fan. That's where we'll be sharing our insights on "handcrafted travel". We'll bring you relevant travel news and inspiration, and it's also a great format to get your comments.

So, help us spread the word: Become a fan and also invite your friends to become fans!

As the New Year unfolds and ushers in a new decade, we wish everyone everywhere a happy, healthy, and peaceful New Decade!

In the travel industry, 2009 was perhaps one of the most roller-coaster years. Business at Zicasso was no exception. The first quarter saw many travelers being nervous about making a purchase decision for leisure travel, particularly for longer, complex international trips. Conditions fortunately improved during each subsequent quarter and by the fourth quarter, we saw a remarkable recovery and improvement in traveler confidence.

As you may have noticed, Zicasso now has a good bunch of Travel Reviews! For the first time on the Internet, or anywhere for that matter, real travelers are forming a community that rates and reviews travel agents and tour operators! Only travelers who booked and traveled through Zicasso are invited to write these travel reviews so you know they are from real travelers sharing real experiences.