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Ice Climbing in Peru

This photo was taken with an iPhone 7 and touched up very lightly with the editing tools in Google Photos.

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Not Impressed – Australia

iPhone Xs portrait mode

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Win a Visit to Historic Philadelphia on KTLA for President’s Day!

Happy President’s Day Weekend!

In honor of our Founding Fathers and Mothers,
we are giving away a trip to Historic Philadelphia!
Watch me in KTLA live or on livestream
on the 11am news and text in to win!

I went to college at University of Pennsylvania and for four years Philadelphia was my home. It definitely seemed very cold to me in the winter compared to Los Angeles but I loved living there. I made some lifetime friends and want to share some of the great things about this incredible city.  I love exploring more of the historic area of the City of Brotherly Love. Benjamin Franklin was a founding father of our country and my University (1749)!

Watch my videos from my recent visit:

WHAT TO DO:

*Betsy Ross House

*National Constitution Center

*Museum of the American Revolution

I also loved my tour at City Hall and the Mayor’s reception room. I spent the afternoon at Penn Museum or The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology which is an archaeology and anthropology museum that is part of the University of Pennsylvania and on Penn campus. I saw one of the recently renovated exhibits and the other exhibits will be renovated and open in 2020.

Lisa Niver in the Mayor’s Reception Hall at City Hall, Philadelphia
WHERE DID I STAY?

Loews Philadelphia Hotel

This historic building was the first modern skyscraper in America and is a National Historic Landmark. It was originally the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society (PSFS) building and has a bank vault in lobby. The custom designed Cartier clocks are still on every floor! Built in 1932, it had no dome or ornamentation. The steel construction with a T shaped tower allowed for more natural light and rentable space! This design allowed for the skylines of NYC and Chicago to happen. The PSFS is still on the side of the building.

WHERE DID I EAT?

Vernick Coffee Bar

James Beard award-winning Chef Greg Vernick partners with Four Seasons Hotel at Comcast Center to deliver a modern coffee bar with fantastic breakfast and lunch. The cafe is open to the public from 7am to 5pm. There is art in the lobby: Jenny Holzer’s digital art installation called, For Philadelphia, and Conrad Shawcross’s sculpture, Exploded Paradigm.

Thank you to everyone who participated in our
KTLA President’s Day Giveaway!

The winner will receive:

HOTEL

Two nights hotel accommodations at Loews Philadelphia Hotel (based on availability)
Hotel breakfast and parking daily

FLIGHTS:

Roundtrip, coach airline ticket Los Angeles/Philadelphia/Los Angeles from VISIT PHILADELPHIA.

MEAL:

Vernick Coffee Bar at Four Seasons Hotel Philadelphia at Comcast Center

ACTIVITIES

2 Tickets to each of these three museums:

National Constitution Center
Betsy Ross House
Museum of the American Revolution

 

Lisa Niver at her Alma Mater, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

 

 

 

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A Summer’s Day in Historic Regensburg – Germany

I used a DSLR Canon EOS 100D with a circular polarized filter. No other photo alterations. I used the Canon EF-S 18-55mm 1:3.5-5.6 IS STM lens with an exposure time 1/200 sec, a focal length of 28 and an F-stop of 1/9 with an ISO speed of ISO-100.

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Colombia: I don’t have a carnival costume yet!

The photo was taken with my Panasonic Lumix TZ1 camera. Edited in Snapseed app.

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Mexican Cenote

To take that picture, I used a DSLR camera. I didn’t alter so much the photo but I used photoshop to contrast it a little bit. I took the photo with a Canon EOS 70D and 18-135mm lens, and I didn’t use filters.

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What Happened at ILTM Cannes 2018? Part TWO

What Happened at ILTM Cannes 2018? 

Read about Part One here:

To watch Part One: Click HERE.

PART TWO:

I loved the International Luxury Travel Mart conference!

We started with breakfast with Marriott International Luxury Brands at the JW Marriott on Boulevard de la Croisette. Jennie Benzaquen shared exciting new developments throughout the brands and I even got to take a photo with the chefs! It was another beautiful December day in Cannes and we started at the conference with ‘In Conversation with’ press conferences with many top luxury brands.

Walking the floors of the conference, I spoke with many luxury brands about upcoming hotel openings, story ideas and possible adventures.

VIDEO: What Happened at ILTM Cannes 2018? Part TWO

At lunch, we had Press Roundtables in the First Floor Restaurant at the Palais des Festivals.

For Afternoon Tea, we met with a selection of exhibitors during a dedicated session at the Palais des Festivals.

Hill Choi Lee and Lisa Niver at VOGA party ILTM

In the evening, I attended the MILUX beach house cocktail party, VOGA Vogue Yoga event, Jumeirah Hotels yacht party, Nobu Hotels party.

Journalists at VOGA ILTM party

One of the best things was to reconnect with journalism friends from around the world and to make new connections.

I stayed at the Martinez Hotel and when we returned, we went to the Hyatt party which was at our hotel!

Party with MILUX at ILTM

December 6 started with breakfast at Martinez Hotel before our final set of ‘In Conversation with’  at the ILTM Media Centre. I had many one on one chats about future stories and being at the conference was superb.

Nobu Hotels Party at ILTM

The Kudadoo Maldives Lunch was held at the Majestic Hotel. I enjoyed going to all of the area hotels for our different events. At the end of the day, we went to the MILUX party and the Four Seasons Party before the final party at Hotel Martinez with the famous revolving dance floor.

Journalists at Final Party at ILTM 2018

A giant thank you to the ILTM team for including me at the Cannes 2018 event.

Thank you TEAM ILTM 2018!

Click here to see all of my conference videos!

More about ILTM Conference: “The ultimate global meeting in the annual luxury travel calendar!”

“ILTM in Cannes is our flagship inspirational show. We bring everyone to Cannes: your customers, your media and your network. It’s where the world meets the world! You will be seen alongside the absolute best in class and do more business in a week than is possible in many months. More contacts, more opportunities, more insights and more markets than anywhere else – you can’t afford not to be part of it.

ILTM introduces global travel buyers to an unrivaled collection of international travel experiences. We are the relationship brokers that provide a platform for you to do business and build relationships.

ILTM 2018 marks the launch of ILTM’s Year of Health and Wellness, kicking off in the French Riviera in Cannes. ILTM will launch research and gather a community of wellness experts that all draw the same conclusion; in the future, all travel is wellness travel, every trip is expected to enhance the physical, mental and social wellbeing of the traveller, transformation is the very promise of travel, and today’s travel brands are the solution to one of the biggest problems of our age.”

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Sahara Adventure, Morocco

Nikon D850; 28-300 lens; Raw format

Enhanced contrast in Lightroom and then converted to a jpg.

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Bird Lady in Amsterdam, Netherlands

Nikon D3200

Focal length 55mm using a Nikon 18-55 VR lens

F-stop 5.6

Shutter speed 1/125 sec.

ISO- 100

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