In 1995, Carter created and launched the top-rated travel website, Interactive TravelVision Network. This was the beginning of the Internet revolution and TravelVision was the only single-author, interactive, photographic database of more than 2000 hotels, inns, and resorts in 120 countries that could be searched by more than 90 personal criteria.

TravelVision brought Carter to the attention of a new Internet company staffed by ex-American Express executives, Biztravel.com. Biztravel asked Carter to move to New York and create an online magazine for frequent business travelers. He pioneered biztraveler and as Editor-in-Chief, won many awards.

Throughout the years and achievements, Carter continued to nurture his first love—the making and collecting of fine art photography (he is one of the world’s experts on the great, late American photographer, Ansel Adams). So when the “dot.com” bubble burst and the financiers of biztravel.com ran out of money, Carter was free to follow his muse, and created what was universally regarded as the most beautiful gallery for fine art photography in the world—The Edward Carter Gallery, in Manhattan’s SoHo.

Two years later, Carter was living across the street from the World Trade Center when, on September 11, 2001, life in America changed forever. Closing his gallery, Carter left the troubles behind him to build another new life, this time in Bangkok.

The World Trade Center site ("Ground Zero") from the top of Carter's building on January 3, 2002

Today, while Carter is known internationally as a fine art photographer and visiting professor of Hospitality and Tourism at Bangkok University International College in Thailand, he continues to be better appreciated for his usually funny, sometimes bitchy, but always fair, descriptions of his experiences traveling around the world.

You are now reading the online version of Edward Carter's TRAVELS© in which, as every discerning traveler’s “Point Man,” Carter tells you where to go and what to avoid. He loves hearing from his readers and sharing their experiences here on the site. Email him at eglcarter@yahoo.com