Articles tagged “tablets”

Wi-Fi is expensive for hoteliers, but it guarantees a high return on investment as guests are apt to elect hotels with the service. Introducing other gadgets is more difficult as they quickly become outdated.

While individual travel bloggers won’t have much luck putting their next trip on Kickstarter, projects such as Nowhere and this Bhutan documentary may be paving the way for more established and well-organized travel projects to get funded.

WorldMate powers Blackberry Travel and has a very large set of Blackberry users. Given RIM's woes, there's nothing like hedging your bets with a new Windows RT app.

The surprising utility of tablets continues to grow in the travel industry as Kenyan tribesman wield mobile maps and Swiss restaurants provide live videos of chefs, yet the U.S. seems behind the adoption curve.

Once derided as devices for wealthy consumers, iPads have quickly become the budget alternative for travel industry players -- like resorts and airlines -- that are looking for more cost-effective ways to reach customers.

The tray tables help make the most of fliers’ personal space and would be a smart investment for airlines that don’t offer their own in-flight entertainment.

The rise of mobile continues with nearly half of tablet owners who search flights, also booking them on a tablet. Google’s improved UI is likely just the beginning of redesigns created for mobile bookers.

Recent personal experience using an iPad on an Openskies flight demonstrated how much better a user experience the tablet is than a traditional in-seat device. It's hard so see this not catching on.

AA is the first US airline to give all flight attendants a tablet, but it will need more than tablets to improve its recent reputation for flight cancellations and unfavorable labor decisions.

AA is putting substantial effort into its mobile offerings with its app on more devices than any other airline and as an early adopter of Passbook. It hopes it will pay off with an eventual revenue boost from mobile payments.