It's early days yet and we’re still taking-in the flood of apps that companies are designing for the Apple Watch and similar devices. Taken together, they are great indicators of how consumers will be using their smartwatches, and the impact this will have on the travel industry. Indeed, travel brands have been among the first to market Apple...
Peer-to-peer services like Couchsurfing and Airbnb are changing the way many people travel by facilitating connections between strangers to arrange short-term lodging and international friendships. While this new way of traveling and doing business is becoming wildly popular in Western countries, staying in the homes of strangers is finding far...
People who love music have always had to make a choice: either stay at home and hear great sound, or pack the travel speakers and sacrifice quality for light weight. While digital music has made our favorite songs a lot more portable, many of us end up listening on tiny laptop or smartphone speakers with less-than-optimum sound quality. Decent...
3D printing has already boldly gone to create everything from automobiles to entire houses. Some companies are even using it to create parts for commercial jet engines. Yet somehow it still comes as a surprise that the technology is now being used to create rocket ships. Because 3D printing can make featherweight flying objects more quickly and...
In the USA in particular, most airlines have let their business lounges slip in quality, along with the services they provide in the air. No matter that recent years have delivered record profits to the country's airlines, it seems they prefer to complain about subsidies to foreign carriers than boost their own offerings. Well, when there is a...
Critics malign the selfie trend for celebrating narcissism. Companies, on the other hand, are embracing this trend as an avenue for free promotion. More and more we are seeing tourism destinations and other venues creating "Instagram moments" that invite customers to take photos of themselves and post to social media. Now Virgin Atlantic...
Unless you are a thoroughly modern woman who has recently given birth, you may not be aware of the challenges that come with the need to breastfeed. Jetsetting mothers are about to get some relief with the installation of “lactation suites” in American airports. Mamava, a Vermont-based company, is rolling out the first of these suites – small,...
Personalized data collection for marketing and even more nefarious purposes is now firmly established as an enduring trend. In fact, it's so ubiquitous that digitized data collection is moving off the ground and into airplanes. In a unique experiment to better understand their flyers, British Airways is enlisting some passengers as volunteer...
In response to a huge expansion in travel and tourism worldwide, airports, airlines and other travel industry providers are scrambling to appeal to an ever greater variety of cultures and clients. Newly wealthy middle classes from formerly impoverished places is fueling much of the growth in travel. In Asia, many of these travelers are coming...
The past two years have seen the buzz over selfies rise to fever pitch, along with a general acknowledgement that they are somewhat silly and narcissistic. Add “uncivilized” and “dangerous” to that list, and the selfie fad may be on the decline, if not banned outright. That’s exactly what’s happening at museums and historical sites around the...