Category Archives: Technology

TripAdvisor is breaking businesses

The Guardian reported last week that “as many as 700 owners of guesthouses, B&Bs and hotels are joining forces over what they see as unfair reports” on TripAdivsor.

What has happened to travel?

Technology enables us to make better informed, faster decisions and hopefully saves us some money as a result, but sometimes as a traveller I wonder how this all impacts on the intrinsic value of travel.

High-Tech or Low-Tech?

There’s a balance to be struck between taking too many and too few techy gadgets on an expedition.

Gowalla partners create new self-guided walking tours

Gowalla and Foursquare are working in very similar territory, but with Gowalla’s new redesign and their Trips feature they seem more firmly rooted in the travel space.

Glympse, my favourite iPhone app

There are so many iPhone apps in apple’s app store that really don’t deliver much in terms of functionality but Glympse is something altogether different.

OPINION: The Travel 3.0 Era

As I look at the evolution of travel, we are at the leading edge of what I would call Travel 3.0.

10 #whltravel Tweeps Twittering

Faces behind 10 of the twitter accounts run by the #whltravel network

Social Media as the new loyalty program

Mobile location-based check-in services offer huge potential as third party loyalty schemes and local information sharing platforms.

Mining our internet social circles

What needs to happen in the local travel knowledge website space…

REVIEW: Travelfish Angkor iPhone App

Personal review of the Travelfish Angkor/Siem Reap, Cambodia iPhone App