The Hivemind Podcast brings together the collective wisdom of travel advisors, supplier partners, and destination experts to make you feel more confident, prepared, and connected. Each episode delivers practical insights you can put to work right away — from understanding which hotels best fit which clients, to breaking down the nuances of a destination, to sharing pro tips that help you save time and streamline your business inside The Hive platform. Think of it as your shortcut to the knowledge that builds trust with clients and helps your business grow. Learn more at thehive.travel/podcast
Comporta and Melides are often handled as a day trip out of Lisbon, but the two neighboring parishes hold enough to anchor several nights of a Portugal itinerary. Miguel Charters, co-owner of Pa.te.os in Melides, walks through what separates them: Comporta's shops, restaurants and larger crowds against the fisherman's village pace of Melides, its cork and pine hills, and its ceramics studios. He covers the 65 kilometers of uninterrupted sand running from Troia down to Sines, why a rental car changes the shape of the trip, and the case for placing this region at the end of a Portugal itinerary rather than the start. Travel advisors also get the seasonal read, including what opens up between November and March.
16 Jul 2026
41 The Essentials: Split, Croatia
Split is often treated as a quick arrival or departure point, but Željana Boban Klarić, general manager of Dinaric Adventures, makes the case for building a Croatia itinerary around it. Born and raised in the city, she walks travel advisors through the logistics, from the new seasonal United nonstop between New York and Split to why shoulder season opens up lavender workshops and family visits on Hvar. She maps activities across the Cetina River canyon, biking out of Stari Grad, and Diocletian's Palace, and explains how to divide ten days across Split, Hvar, and Dubrovnik. She also introduces Dinaric's new short yacht charters and how the pricing works beyond the base rate.
9 Jul 2026
40 The Essentials: Provence, France
Provence is often treated as one destination, but the geography tells a different story. Avignon to Nice is over two hours by car, and clients who want both the lavender country and the Côte d'Azur need a split stay, not a single base. Ece Armanet, Head of Marketing at Découvertes DMC France and a resident of Aix-en-Provence, walks travel advisors through how to structure it by zone: wine touring in Châteauneuf-du-Pape, full days in the Luberon, and matching clients to Nice, Cannes, Saint-Tropez, or Monaco by what they are actually after. She also pins the lavender window at late May through mid-July, the one detail that locks the season before everything else can fall into place.
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