Added 13 February, 2014
Remember the days when hotels rooms had real keys? Often connected to large and heavy key chains meant to remind guests to return them to the front desk, these old school metal keys are hard to find these days. Now it's all about key cards with magnetic strips – or sometimes with embedded RFID chips. But the days of disposable plastic cards are...
Added 11 February, 2014
What if you walked into an airport, were greeted by name and instantly updated on your itinerary and helped with whatever other information you needed? That is the promise Virgin Atlantic airlines is making to their Upper Class passengers, now that their employees are wearing Google Glass. Debuting this week at Heathrow Airport, the technology...
Added 10 February, 2014
Hotel managers are single-mindedly concerned with revenues and occupancy rates. The problem is that many, if not most, touristic locations are seasonal. Sometimes hotels are empty and prices are low. Other times both occupancy and prices skyrocket. What's a hotel owner to do? Sunborn Gibraltar is answering this age-old conundrum with a new kind...
Added 3 February, 2014
What are personal drones good for? Like the iPad before it, this technology is of the "if you build it they will come" variety. Put it out on the marketplace and customers will come up with all kinds of good uses that the technology's inventers never imagined. This is the situation with unmanned aerial vehicles as we enter the Drone Decade....
Added 3 February, 2014
Travelers often look for a theme to wrap their explorations around to give a reason to what might otherwise be seen as aimless travel. Sports stadium trips are perennially popular. As are those to see a variety of national parks or taste wines. In Scotland, touring whisky distilleries has a long and noble tradition. In the USA (and elsewhere),...
Added 21 January, 2014
As economies trend up and down, prices of hotel rooms usually become similarly elastic. Not true with luxury hotel suites, however, which have prices that seem to go only one direction: Up. The rich keep getting richer, and nowhere is that clearer these days than in the size and price of top hotels' top suites. Just as airlines battle for high-...
Added 19 January, 2014
The London-based architectural firm Foster and Partners has put forward a far-reaching plan for bicycle lanes in the sky that would transform transportation in the city. The proposed SkyCycle network would be built above existing rail lines and cover up to 220 kilometers (100 miles) around London. The somewhat fanciful project was created to...
Added 16 January, 2014
KLM has been out in front of the social media curve for several years now. The Dutch airline has started many online trends, including initiatives that invited Business Class flyers to connect with each other before flying to facilitate business relationships. The airline is also one of the most active on Twitter and has a large social networking...
Added 7 January, 2014
Personal unmanned vehicles are getting a lot of buzz lately, trending upward with each day. But, until recently, drones have been flying machines, taking to the air to take video images and deliver payloads across challenging terrain. It is only rational that the next step for drones is the water. But what makes an aquatic drone different, say,...
Added 6 January, 2014
We are entering a new world in which unmanned flying vehicles, also known as drones, will soon become commonplace. They are currently being used by military and law enforcements, as well as various hobbyists and the occasional paparazzi. And DHL and Amazon.com have famously talked about using drones as package delivery devices. But what about the...