Uncategorized Archives - TOM POPPER https://tompopper.com/category/uncategorized/ Leading People To the World's Most Extraordinary Places Tue, 03 Feb 2026 13:14:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://tompopper.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/TP-150x150.png Uncategorized Archives - TOM POPPER https://tompopper.com/category/uncategorized/ 32 32 PODCAST: Planning Post-COVID Travel with Tom Popper https://tompopper.com/post-covid-travel/ Mon, 14 Jun 2021 20:44:03 +0000 https://tompopper.com/?p=2218 Tom Popper is my guest on the Dayna Steele’s Rock Star Principles podcast today to discuss post-COVID travel, and why we should start planning travel today. You can listen below or on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn, or iHeartRadio. He shares his professional journey and what the current administration might or might not […]

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]]> Cuba Takes Major Step to Improve the Economy: Allows Majority Owned Foreign Direct Investment https://tompopper.com/foreign-direct-investment/ Tue, 22 Dec 2020 22:19:24 +0000 https://tompopper.com/?p=2051 In a major policy shift to lure more foreign direct investment and improve its economy, Cuba announced that it will allow foreign entities to retain a majority share in their investments on the island. Until now Cuba maintained a majority stake in all foreign direct investments. The move follows a series of efforts by the […]

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]]> Are airplane seats about to go through a big change? https://tompopper.com/airline-seat-configuration/ Tue, 01 Dec 2020 16:37:16 +0000 https://tompopper.com/?p=2039 If you’ve been flying since the 1970’s, 80’s or even 90’s, you know that little has changed regarding airline seat configurations. Despite a lack of any major innovation to seating configurations, airlines have been putting more passengers onto airplanes to increase profitability. This has resulted in narrower seats, less leg room, less recline, and in […]

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]]> 10 Things You Need to Know to Travel in a COVID-19 World https://tompopper.com/how-to-travel-safely-and-responsibly-in-10-steps/ Tue, 20 Oct 2020 13:16:10 +0000 https://tompopper.com/?p=1836 Are you one of the many people who want to start traveling, again, but are thinking that you and the world aren’t ready yet? While traveling during a global pandemic is a personal choice, you can travel internationally safely and responsibly, even in 2020! I have and continue to do so. All you need is […]

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]]> Behind the Scenes Look at the Opening of the Cuban Embassy https://tompopper.com/behind-the-scenes-at-the-opening-of-the-cuban-embassy/ Sun, 13 Sep 2020 14:29:00 +0000 https://tompopper.com/?p=1127 “It’s only a matter a time”, said Javier Dominguez in 2003, a Cuban government official after the Bush administration virtually ended all legal travel to Cuba. To give a profound sense of the time, not even Carlos Lazo, a surviving Cuban-American war hero from the battlefields of Fallujah, Iraq would be permitted to visit his […]

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]]> Is Global Entry Worth It? https://tompopper.com/is-global-entry-worth-it/ Sun, 13 Sep 2020 00:15:04 +0000 https://tompopper.com/?p=1118 How many times have you rushed to get to the airport to make your flight only to be stymied by the line at airport security? You peer over passenger shoulders looking at the front of the security line as if your stares will make it move faster. Do you find yourself hurling yourself towards the […]

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]]> Dreams Really Do Come True- The Havana Marathon https://tompopper.com/dreams-really-do-come-true/ Sat, 12 Sep 2020 20:18:49 +0000 https://tompopper.com/?p=1109 In 2002, I met 11-year old Michael, who was stricken with childhood leukemia. Our meeting wasn’t by chance. I had joined Team in Training, a race-fundraising arm of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, to raise money for the organization’s cause, run in the San Diego Rock-n-Roll Marathon, my first marathon, and was Michael’s sponsor. During […]

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]]> A Coffee Shop and U.S.-Cuba Policy https://tompopper.com/a-coffee-shop-and-u-s-cuba-policy/ Sat, 12 Sep 2020 17:14:32 +0000 https://tompopper.com/?p=1097 For 22 years, 193 countries gather at the U.N. to vote for or against the long standing and controversial U.S.-Cuba policy, the U.S. Embargo against Cuba. The results are virtually the same each year, but the experience of attending the vote is truly one of a kind. I was driving into New York City on […]

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