This week we look at five startups keen on creating integrations where travelers need them most, such as connecting rewards miles tracking to flight bookings, flight savings to travel management companies and cancelled flights to insurance claims. 30k shows travelers how many rewards miles they can earn on any flight when booking through online travel agencies. […]
People who don’t plan properly with reward cards can lose hundreds of dollars with no flights or hotel stays to show for it. (Wendell Franks/iStock photo) The mention of a reward credit card evokes images of jet-setting across the globe in a first-class seat to then lounge in a suite at a luxury resort. But people who don’t plan properly could […]
A hotel guest might rationalize stealing a bathrobe or towel because the room is expensive. In the same way, a travel company might argue that the high cost of doing business, or consumers’ demands for the lowest rates, justify exorbitant change fees.(Photo: Getty Images/iStockphoto) When you think of stealing from a travel company, swiping a […]
Larry Campbell(Photo: file photo) Francis Bacon said, “Travel in the younger sort is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.” I would rephrase that: Travel, for all ages, is both experience and education. Why am I waxing so philosophical here? It’s because of the Big Missouri River Adventure I’m on as […]
Jon Speaker with his parents Tom and Rosemary Speaker.(Photo: Provided by Jon Speaker) LAFAYETTE, Ind. — When Speaker’s Travel & Lion and the Lamb Journeys opened int West Lafayette in 1986 the town housed a total of six travel agencies. Lafayette had 13, according to Tom Speaker, founder and former president of the company. Now, […]
• New Orleans, LA – One week in The Big Easy • Austin, TX – One and a half weeks in the live music capital of the world • El Paso, TX – Three days in El Paso, the second safest city in the United States • Tucson, AZ – One night in the home […]
ONLY readers living under a rock for the past two months will be unaware of Pokémon Go. The smartphone game, which overlays augmented-reality onto real-world locations, has been downloaded some 100m times on Google Play alone. Players hunt for their favourite characters at “Pokéstops” and send them into gladiatorial battle in “Pokégyms”. Some Pokémon are […]
Federal health officials on Friday warned pregnant women not to travel to trendy Miami Beach after Florida confirmed that the mosquito-borne Zika virus was active in the popular tourist destination. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also suggested that pregnant women who are especially worried about exposure to Zika – which has been […]
We’ve just completed the dog days of summer, that sultry period that relates to the hottest, most uncomfortable part of the season. Promotions abound in American ballparks to boost ticket sales for mid-afternoon games, while newspapers compete among themselves to wake up their readers from their languid sojourns. So it is with […]
It’s time for holidays! Your suitcase is packed, you’re ready to leave, and cannot wait to get a proper tan to show on social media. Mark Twain used to say that “travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness”, but unfortunately the health problems we may come across while travelling are far less poetic. Danger […]
