Travel Industry Journal

When I saw this article in the Guardian about celebrating the 20th anniversary of Dirty Dancing at the Mountain Lake Hotel, the Virginia resort that stood in for the Catskills in the classic film, it left me feeling a little nostalgic. Not only for the always-quotable scenes from the movie (”Nobody puts Baby in a corner!”), but for my own time at Mountain Lake, which I visited in college with a group called the Appalachia Volunteers.

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Where there’s a will, there’s a way.

The Bookinist chair, created by German designer Nils Holger Moormann, has a lamp, bookshelves, a secret compartment that holds your favorite pens and paper, and naturally, a wheel, to ensure the reader always has the best seat in the house.

No word yet on whether the chair is actually comfortable, but we’d gladly take our favorite travel books for a spin on this mobile literary explorer.

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Excuse us for a moment while we celebrate. On Monday, the Society of American Travel Writers announced the annual Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism winners. Among magazines, National GeographicTraveler won five awards, including the Gold for Best Travel Magazine. The other winners were:

Magazine Article on Foreign Travel
Bronze: Christine K. Eckstrom, “The Last Real Africa,” National Geographic Traveler

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