Cruise ships are kind of ecologically awful.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruise_ship#Environmental_impact" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruise_ship#Environmental_impa...</a><p>As a Mexican who has seen our beaches gradually destroyed by endless visiting cruise ships year after year, I feel compelled to remind people how terrible they are for the planet.<p>Not to mention, they are also super legally sleazy. They are often harboured at countries that have no legal protections. If something happens to you on a cruise ship, it's your own damn problem. Being registered in those tiny corrupt countries also means that they don't have to answer for their ecological destruction.<p><a href="http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/3-dark-facts-cruise-lines-dont-want-you-to-know/" rel="nofollow">http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/3-dark-facts-cruise-lines...</a><p>I wish I could be excited about going to such an event. It seems like it would be super fun. But I don't want my fun to promote such evils. I am very saddened by the coral reef destruction I have witnessed first hand throughout my life.<p><a href="http://www.marineinsight.com/marine/environment/how-ships-are-destroying-coral-reefs-around-the-world/" rel="nofollow">http://www.marineinsight.com/marine/environment/how-ships-ar...</a><p><a href="http://notigodinez.com/empresa-constructora-de-muelle-dana-gravemente-sistema-arrecifal-paraiso-en-cozumel-unico-en-el-mundo/" rel="nofollow">http://notigodinez.com/empresa-constructora-de-muelle-dana-g...</a>
This is the coolest thing I've seen in a while when it comes to conference. As someone with a young family, I cringe when I have to think about going to another city for a conference, which is all the time because I live in Cleveland. Its not the travel, I rather like traveling: its leaving the wife with the kids and just up and going. This allows me to take the kids and wife, and not feel too bad about abandoning them to fend for themselves for a week.
Pretty cool. Ever since going solo I've wondered why more development conferences aren't in tropical locations so it can double as a vacation :-)<p>I worked at an agency that did work for pharmaceutical companies and doctors/med salespeople do this all the time! There were a couple of jobs in Punta Cana, DR alone each year.