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Category: (Technology Showcase)
Photo: Russ Johnson So you want to get off the tourist track, away from the diesel bus stink, the rehearsed hotel staff, the pickpockets and predators that are often drawn to tourists as bees would to ...Created on 15 May 2013 -
Category: (Good Travel)
... changing once-pristine places to crowded, greedy carnivals. Places like Cambodia's Angkor which I, almost shamefully, helped introduce to the world of tourism, are jammed with hotels, tourists and the ...Created on 22 April 2013 -
Category: (Wine Country)
... who slog from town to town, sometimes holing up in cheap hotels, often covering their own expenses, the film festival circuit can be quite a party. The people we talked to were staying in the guest houses ...Created on 14 April 2013 -
Category: (Essays)
... or hotel staff, but leaving ourselves open to whatever catches our fancy. Granted you might not see every landmark or frequent the restaurant that the concierge is promoting, but with a little advance ...Created on 21 March 2013 -
Category: (US/Canada)
... at the not-so-ritzy Figueroa Hotel peering up at the top one-percent, watching searchlights scanning the skies, LA-style, for nothing in particular. All Photos (c) 2013 Russell Johnson The Hotel ...Created on 08 March 2013 -
Category: (Connected Traveler Technology Showcase)
... sneak into hotel lobbies or use coffee shops to use their free connections but those aren't necessarily safe from malicious people who want to tap into your data. Global MiFi Mark recommends a portable ...Created on 22 January 2013 -
Category: (Connected Traveler Technology Showcase)
... deals on airfares, hotels and rental cars to local maps and dining guides. Hear from experts as they share user experiences and the latest technology available for your mobile platform. Connected Traveler ...Created on 03 January 2013 -
Category: (Apps, Gear and Tech)
... on the screen of my phone. These AR apps are basically browsers, providing a live video interface for third-party location-based programs that harvest information from Wikipedia, hotel, restaurant review ...Created on 22 June 2012 -
Category: (Asia)
... Times of London. I didn't bother to boot up my laptop: pointless as there was little connectivity. A friend who just returned told me that some hotels she stayed in now have very fast Internet connections. ...Created on 17 May 2012 -
Category: (Apps, Gear and Tech)
... engine for hotel deals that uses pricing analytics to find the best values instead of just the cheapest price. Georama - A web site developer call "the first end to end leisure travel platform. Everything ...Created on 26 April 2012 -
Category: (Apps, Gear and Tech)
... for example, uses something called Clicktale, which can record every mouseclick and scroll of an individual user. With airlines and hotels changing prices at the blink of an eye, I think it is only time ...Created on 30 March 2012 -
Category: (Europe)
... now luxury hotel): the sort of groaner prose and frothy free associations that arise when one has had just a bit to much...or maybe just the right amount. In fact, I am feeling great joy that I have finally ...Created on 13 March 2012 -
Category: (Wine Country)
... took up arms against their distributors, of Mdme Pommery strolling through her gardens (Château les Crayères built by the Pommery family there, is now luxury hotel): the sort of groaner prose and frothy ...Created on 13 March 2012 -
Category: (Connected Traveler Technology Showcase)
... what hotels or destinations really look like from any angle. The Connected Traveler Technology Showcase also attracted people who came to The New York Times Travel Show thinking about a possible career ...Created on 13 March 2012 -
Category: (US/Canada)
... shops. In Sonoma, some outsider-owned hotels and restaurants have an unwritten creed of appreciation for the locals who patronize them, sometimes offering a discount or a little something extra. Ask a ...Created on 22 November 2011 -
Category: (Wine Country)
... assault of chain restaurants and tschotske shops. In Sonoma, some outsider-owned hotels and restaurants have an unwritten creed of appreciation for the locals who patronize them, sometimes offering a discount ...Created on 22 November 2011 -
Category: (Essays)
... and products. There is an organization called the Scent Marketing Institute that specializes in the nexus of marketing and olfaction. Scents are now delivered to public areas in hotels via air conditioning. ...Created on 03 December 2010 -
Category: (Video)
... it will probably outbuild it as well. I stayed for a week last month, at The Venetian, a hotel-casino that makes the one in Las Vegas look like a Motel Six, witnessed the preview of a spectacular US$250 ...Created on 05 October 2010 -
Category: (Asia)
I had a dream that the Grand Lisboa tower, a hotel-casino that now dominates the skyline of Macau, came alive one night, pulled itself from its mooring, marched across China's Pearl River Delta and, ...Created on 26 January 2010 -
Category: (Good Travel)
... out?) all of which makes for a very tolerable, tolerant, colorful place, with a real sense of a sustainable future. Contacts: Ibex Expeditions CGH Earth - a group of eco-friendly hotels in Kerala Kerala ...Created on 24 April 2009