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Today I gave a presentation at the Chicago Seminars about taking multi-stop trips including round-the-world trips. The premise is that RTW awards are dead, so the best way to book RTW trips is as a series of mostly one way awards, hitting all the award chart sweet spots you can along the way.

The presentation is an expansion on:

It relies on knowledge of how to redeem several types of miles already, so if you don’t know that stuff, you probably want to buy my e-book that comes out next week.

Check out the slides here (there are a few links embedded in the presentation that expand on it):