Screenshot via NBC's Today Show

Newport was recently featured on NBC’s TODAY SHOW on Monday, January 29.

Presented by the Editor in Chief of Travel & Leisure, the segment highlighted “Travel Swaps” – less expensive or easier to get to destinations.

Screenshot via NBC’s Today Show

During the segment, Newport was compared to the South of France and The Breakers, Marble House, The Elms, Newport Vineyards, and Greenvale Vineyards were mentioned.

Watch Segment

Travel swaps! Less expensive alternatives to popular destinations

Travel + Leisure editor-in-chief Jacqui Gifford joins TODAY to share less expensive and less crowded alternatives to popular travel destinations, including a town in Kentucky that will make you feel like you’re in Ireland.

Ryan Belmore is the owner and publisher of What's Up Newp. He took over the publication in 2012 and has grown it into a three-time Rhode Island Monthly Best Local News Blog (2018, 2019, 2020). He was named LION Publishers Member of the Year in 2020 and received the Dominique Award from the Arts & Cultural Society of Newport County the same year. He has been awarded grants for investigative and community journalism, and continues to coach and mentor new local news publications nationwide. Ryan...

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