Frosted Flakes: Traveling While Black, Revised Schedules and HCBUs

Photo by Jonathan Newton /The Washington Post via Getty ImagesSince it’s Black History Month, I think it’s important to address black travelers because they are growing in numbers every year and play a key role every year in the travel and tourism industry. I’ve met quite a few black travelers throughout my extensive travels including one with whom I have formed a good friendship.

His name is Roobens Fils who writes on his travel blog Been Around the Globe. I first met him at a travel blogger conference in Rotterdam, Netherlands in May 2018 when we discovered we were both staying in the same hostel (but in different dorm rooms). We met later that summer at another conference in Ostrava,…