Getting good advice about your health before traveling can be surprisingly frustrating sometimes. There are a number of websites with terribly general advice, and others that are mind numbingly specific. Mostly, however, they just seem to want to squeeze a few dollars out of you without giving anything of value back. It’s difficult to know  Continue Reading »

There’s very little besides using common sense that travelers of today can do to fight inflation. But using the internet to research your destination and plan ahead can be one of the most powerful tools you have in cutting costs. Here are a few great websites that may be able to help: Farecast.com & Farcompare.com:  Continue Reading »

Just as you were getting the hang of the express check-in machines at the airport, airlines introduced online check-in. And while many travelers are still coming to grips with that technology, British Airways is exploring new means of getting passengers checked in, including using a mobile phone. If the airline decides to go ahead with  Continue Reading »

While airports in the UK have begun random tests on passenger luggage with litmus paper, airports in the United States are considering testing liquids for explosives. A spokesperson from the Transportation Security Administration said on Tuesday that America’s busiest airports might soon be equipped with a new techonology that searches fro liquid explosives. Two hundred  Continue Reading »

Airports all over Europe have recently been exploring the possibility of using body-scanning machines to improve and expedite the process of searching passengers in airports for metal and explosives. Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam recently become the first to put the technology into regular use although many airports across the continent are trying out the machines.  Continue Reading »

As more passengers take to the skies and more security regulations come into force, the line up to get through security at the airport just keeps getting longer. While a number of airports in the UK are investing serious money into coping with congestion (£9 billion in the case of BAA), some new technology is  Continue Reading »

The televised shopping network takes advantage of people’s thoughtless impulses to tempt them into spur of the moment purchases. Unfortunately, such a concept wouldn’t work in the travel industry. People plan their vacations out with careful consideration after shopping around and weighing their options, right? Wrong. Disney will soon bring you a Travel on Demand  Continue Reading »

Philips Simplicity Concierge is a service that lets you leave the guidebook at home when traveling to London, Paris, Tokyo or 17 of the largest cities in America. The service takes information from a variety of publications owned by Conde Naste, such as concierge.com, newyorker,com, wired.com and vanityfair.com, and makes them accessible to travelers through  Continue Reading »

DotVentures LLC, a company based in Arizona, recently launched several new travel blogs. The blogs uses a technology called “Moguling” to make navigating the site easy.  All the blogs try to provide information about: travel to the location, accommodation deals, and vacation deals.  In addition, each website has information specific to the location. The Hawaii  Continue Reading »

Statistics can tell us how much of our lives we spend asleep, waiting at traffic lights or brushing our teeth. But a new website, Flight Memory, can help you track exactly how much time you spend in the air. Not only that, the website can track your past journeys, allowing you to print out colorful  Continue Reading »

It’s amazing how nice some hotels can manage to look by manipulating the lighting and angles and touching up their photographs in Photoshop. Booking over the internet can be a great way to take a load off you mind when you are planning ahead and flying into an unknown city, but it can have its  Continue Reading »