Kayak is the first online travel player to let shoppers book hotels via Amazon's smart speakers. While the concept has promise, its price comparison process still has to improve before it becomes useful to the average traveler. The rise of voice-based search poses a huge strategic challenge. The brevity that voice search requires incentivizes...
Since Nevada became the fifth state in the U.S. with stores selling marijuana for recreational purposes it's been attracting ever more pot tourists. Entertainment, including live shows, had already been displacing the casinos as a main tourist draw in Las Vegas. We'd be surprised if weed didn't turn out to be another.
The Department of Homeland Security says that scanning every international passenger is the only way to successfully expand a program that tracks nonimmigrant foreigners. They have been required by law since 2004 to submit biometric identity scans, but to date have only had their fingerprints and photos collected prior to entry.
Now, DHS...
Owners can now coordinate their fashion tastes with four shades of popular paint colors.
The Chinese company behind Volvo, Geely, has just bought one of the world's leading flying car start-ups, Terrafugia. The start-up's "Transition" is widely seen as one of the most exciting flying car prototypes currently in development, with a cruising range of 400 miles and a top speed of 100 mph. Perhaps most excitingly for Geely, though, is...
The tourism industry in Lebanon is on the rebound, thanks in no small part to the misfortunes of its Middle East neighbors. The country hasn't returned to its glory days of tourism in the 1950s and 1960s but it is wonderful news for Lebanon, which has been wracked by instability and internal turmoil for years.
South Korea. Robots will start roaming South Korea’s largest airport this summer, helping travelers find their boarding gates. Starting this month, Troika, a self-driving robot made by LG Electronics, will rove the Incheon International Airport, telling travelers how long it takes to get to boarding gates and escorting them to their flights....
Inspired by Iceland, the country's tourism board, has given you until autumn to ask a real, live Icelander any question you'd like about the small Nordic island nation. In a clever bid to promote the country, the campaign has selected seven citizens, all of whom have the typical Icelandic name Guðmundur (for men) or Guðmunda (for females) to...
AirBnB and Uber have proved that peer-to-peer "sharing" is a trend that is here to stay. In their wake we are now seeing a continuous flow of online services that help bring people with skills or goods to share together with those who need them. The travel space has particularly benefited from this new paradigm and London-based Zoolafix is one...
Airports get a bad rap. Journalists like to write stories about the perils of air travel when in fact it is getting better, plusher and easier. Sure, wait times are longer than they once were, but now there is plenty more to do with that time as well. It was only a matter of time before terminals adopted the addition of yoga rooms, playing into...