Travel Technology

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Key topics include business travel technology, emerging trends, and the impact of tech advancements on travel operations. Our features and news provide deep dives into developments shaping travel's future.

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Online Travel

Skift global trend for 2013: Digital maps are one of travel’s key battlegrounds

It is one of the most fascinating battles in tech right now, with huge amount of money involved, and one that will also define the future of how we travel.

Rafat Ali | 12 years ago

Airlines

The Syrian government's cozy relationship with the world's leading airline ticketing companies

Real corporate responsibility begins when companies go beyond mere "compliance" with regulations against outcast airlines and governments.

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago

Airlines

From HD screens to smartphones: LAX aims to create a unique airport media experience

When LAX exceeds expectations for this "multi-sensory media experience," it may get passengers to turn off their personal downloads and engage with something besides the free Wi-Fi.

12 years ago

Online Travel

New York City's Chelsea neighborhood getting free public Wi-Fi, thanks to Google

Free public Wi-Fi is a wonderful thing, but what cities are really clamoring for is Google Fiber. They can't keep it in Kansas City forever.

Sarah Frier | 12 years ago

Airlines

The new TrakDot knows when airlines lose your luggage -- sort of

Watch tech press go gaga over it, but in real world, complaints on lost baggage are falling in U.S., and battle-hardened business travelers minimize checked in baggage anyway. But this could be a precursor to real-time luggage tracking that airlines will eventually launch themselves, for sure.

12 years ago

Hotels

Two Airbnb-clone rental sites in China each get $10 million in funding

Short-term rentals are disruptive to the lodging industry and truly global in scope, as this funding news punctuates.

12 years ago

Business Travel

SkiftSeedlings: Six startups that travelers and the travel industry should know about

Samantha Shankman | 12 years ago

Online Travel

Lonely Planet Thorn Tree forum set to reopen in stages after pruning

Some of the Lonely Planet Thorn Tree forum's bark was inappropriate, and now branches will reopen in stages. The adverse publicity won't derail BBC's potential sale of Lonely Planet, but it won't help it either.

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago

Media and PR

Microsoft isn't happy that Google will emerge unscathed from FTC anti-trust probe

For years Yelp complained that Google was displaying too much of its content, so Google went and bought itself Zagat and Frommer's. Now that it has its own content, we're likely to see more of Google's own stuff and less of its competitors.

Jessica Guynn | 12 years ago

Airlines

The new mileage tracker that reads your email so airlines can't cut it off

Superfly's Superbox is very convenient answer -- assuming there are no privacy issues -- for getting around airlines who seem hell-bent on making tracking miles difficult for their loyalty program members. It wouldn't be surprising, though, if some of these airline abstainers object to this latest workaround.

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago