Norie Quintos is a communications and content consultant, advising destinations and travel companies on how to tell their unique stories. She has deep connections around the world, speaks several languages (badly), and has a Rolodex of talented writers, photographers, designers, and producers. She directs editorial teams for print and pixel projects. An Editor at Large for National Geographic Travel Media, she writes and blogs about the world of travel from a cultural perspective. She was the longtime executive editor of National Geographic Traveler and previously held staff editor jobs at U.S. News and World Report and Caribbean Travel and Life.

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View fullsize While I was off-grid in the Panamanian jungle, this happened. Congratulations to my son Michael and his fiancée Jenny. So happy for the happy couple! Glad son Ned and his girlfriend Juhi were there in California to photograph and celebrate! 💕
View fullsize The premier conference on adventure travel, the Adventure Travel World Summit, has brought me here. The overlapping niches of adventure, nature, and cultural tourism share one thing: an understanding of the beauty and connectedness of the world. The
View fullsize They are among the most beautiful and stubbornly undeveloped islands on the planet, dollops of land dropped on an aquamarine sea. The Guna have stewarded these islands and coast for some 500 years, planting coconuts (a source of income as well as tou
View fullsize Into the land of the Guna: From Portobelo we traveled overland along the coast to the east, past Nombre de Dios—the original terminus of the Camino Real until its sacking by the British corsair Francis Drake—to Miramar, where we took a mo
View fullsize End of the road: The colonial Camino Real that started in the Pacific, ends here, in Portobelo, on the Atlantic. Portobelo was the most important colonial port in the Panamanian Caribbean. The forts (a UNESCO world heritage site) that surround this b
View fullsize From Quebrada Ancha, a dugout canoe handled by expert Emberá boatmen picked us up for a visit to their riverside community. One of seven surviving Indigenous groups in Panama, the Emberá people traditionally lived along the rivers in th
View fullsize There has always been a need to take the shortest way from one place to another. And this is one reason the narrow 50-mile isthmus of Panama has always been a strategic location. Half a century before the Panama Canal, a railway traversed the isthmu
View fullsize Surrounding the Panama Canal are hundreds of thousands of acres of rainforest. In addition to providing water for the locks to function, the watershed is also a sanctuary for approximately 160 mammal species, including the endangered jaguar, tapir an
View fullsize Panama now runs the 111-year-old iconic canal connecting two oceans that France started and the United States completed. More than 25,000 people died during it’s construction (heat, accidents, jungle diseases). Today, some 40 ships a day pass
View fullsize ¡Estoy en Panamá! #ATWS2024 #Panama #LiveForMore #VivePorMás #VisitPanama
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