Monaker Group (MKGI) is Exploring the Travel Industry’s New World of Alternative Lodging Rentals
At the dawn of the sixteenth century, who in Europe would have thought that another continent existed? Not many, it seemed. The Florentine explorer, Amerigo Vespucci, after whom the continent is named, coined the term Mundus Novus (New World) in a letter to a scion of the Medici family. In that missive, Vespucci set out his supposition that the lands encountered to the west were not the eastern bounds of Asia but an unknown continent. His revelations, when published, stirred Europe with an energy and excitement not seen since the Crusades. Today, there is a similar buzz in the wanderlust…