Tech on Tour: Using Technology for Smoother Travel
Gone are the days when stress-free traveling meant relying on dated brochures and how-do-you-put-this-thing-back-together maps. Thanks to helpful tech tools including iPhones and Androids, getting to know a new city can be as easy as pushing a (digital) button. Sure, with a company like Collette, you are shown the local hangouts and musts of sightseeing already. But what about your free tour days? I say – equip yourself with some handy tools so you can walk around foreign cities more empowered – like a local.
Local Eats is a mobile dining guide app that can help you find everything from the best ethnic eateries to local specialties, while the Around Me app, which is free and localized in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, shows a complete listing of all the businesses in your chosen category along with the distance of each from where you are.
Pharmacies, banks and ATMs, hospitals and coffee shops are a tap away. The FlightTrack Pro app provides real-time flight itinerary updates affected by weather delays, flight cancellations and gate changes, while TripIt, a free app, is an all-in-one travel organizer that manages your itinerary. Waiting for your flight to come in? On pick-up duty and headed to the airport? Use the free Flight Aware’s Flight Tracker which can pinpoint the exact, real-time location of every flight in US airspace.
With a tap here and there, you’ll seem like a local in no-time.
posted by Travel Bug
Nicole Sullivan, Supervisor of Branding & Communications
Collette Vacations
Tags: Tech on Tour
