Technology is a great boon for the human race and it has completely transformed every aspect of our lives. Cutting edge technology has made travelling much more convenient and easy. Gizmos and gadgets like iPhone, Ultrabook, smartphones, tablets, e-readers and other innovative travel tools have reformed the way we used to travel in the past. They have been instrumental in bringing about a revolution known as travel technology which is a fusion of the latest technology with the travelling practices.
Making Your Tour Safer
It aims at making your tour much safer and hassle-free by providing the necessary information on your fingertips.Nowadays your tour guidebook may be a podguide, audioguide or I-Tours like City audio guides. GPS tour guide is replacing the conventional tour guide by making use of the GPS compass and the related information to locate the nearest cash machine (ATM) or the nearest restaurant. XML-based technologies that can be read by both machines and the humans alike are becoming an integral part of air reservations booking and establish direct connections between the travel agencies and the Airlines thus they speed up the process of booking incredibly. Biometric passport is making travel hi-tech and more secure than ever.
The various free applications or easy-to-use mini-programs which run on the mobile phone are very informative and this is the reason as to why their popularity is increasing by leaps and bounds. In quest of your making your travel packed with fun and pleasure iPhone has many applications like- the Back Seat Driver and GasFoodLodging.mobi that directs you towards the closest gas stations, motels, hotels and attractions.
An application that helps you to take beautiful professional looking photographs is the ‘Tilt Shift Generator’. It makes travel photography more adventurous and exciting. You may rock on with the ‘Pocket Guitar’ apps and you may actually scale it or strum it like a real guitar and hear the melodious music. Drinks are considered as a fountain of pleasure since times immemorial and the apps ‘Mixologist’ serves you like a personal bartender. With this you can learn how to make up to7, 900 different punches, cocktails and martinis.
My sister, being a foodie, always makes use of OpenTable apps on iPhone that provides consumer rating of the various restaurants along with sample menus to quickly select a good restaurant abroad. Citysearch is helpful in locating your favorite shops, spas, shopping malls while Wikitude is travel guide.
Keep Those Mosquitoes Away With Your Smartphone
Not only this, while packing you may put packing reminders on your cell phone for small items like toothbrush and important documents like Passport, Visa etc. One of the interesting apps if you are planning for a trip to the Amazon forests or Africa is the ‘Mosquito Devise’ that emits hypersonic vibrations to ward off the mosquitos in wide contrast to the repellents, coils and creams we used to take along with us in the recent past and those creams used to make us smell like chemical factory. But Viola! Now your smart phone will also keep those mosquitoes away.
If you wish to read books while basking on the beach forget the trouble of carrying them along as we used to do a decade ago. Thanks to the smart technology, Amazons’s Kindle, Sony eReader, Apple’s iPad and Lonely Planet are there for you in case you wish you are a bookworm like me and want to read e-books while relaxing on the beach. I personally use Amazon’s Kindle and have fallen in love with this product.
Affordability and the expenses related to travel are very important while planning a trip. The use of latest technology and e-commerce provide ground breaking solutions in this respect. Earlier, we used to manually compare the prices of the various train tickets or flight tickets or the charges of the night stay venues but you can do so in a fraction of seconds on your Andriod phone or surf the net and do smart search on websites like Tourabout or TourCMSMarketplace to get the best deals.
Online booking has replaced the need to stand in long lines waiting for your turn to get the tickets. Hence, the proper use of technology with service can reduce your travel expenditure to a great degree while offering an unmatched or unparalleled choice in hotel, train, air, and car rental.
Grab the Best Deals
I have always earned the reputation of planning pocket friendly trips and Twitter has been my best pal in helping me to grab the best deals. Social networking sites, a gift of technology, are quite effective in saving some bucks while making the travel plans. Some of the “last minute deals” can be availed only on Twitter (they are known as “Twares” by United Airlines). Travel technology has molded the way we used to travel and equipment like Toshiba Satellite Z830-10U, Apple MacBook Air and Ultrabook have buffered the fun associated with travelling and provide information at lightning fast speed.
AR or augmented reality, overlays digital information with the real world, so when you point your mobile at a famous building or towards a painting you can see its history and the associated dictionary articles on it. AP apps on smart phones include Wikitude World Browser and Layar. In the near future AR and n-commerce (n stands for nearby) with apps like Nru and snaffle will occupy a significant chunk of the travel market. The new concept of n-commerce is its primitive stage and focuses on the real-time availability of deals and packages in the nearby areas according to the Telegraph.
Medical tourism is relates to the use of the cutting edge technology in the medical field to patients coming from foreign countries especially for this purpose. Cosmetic surgery, bariatric surgery at cost –effective rates allures patients pan globe to travel to other countries for getting the surgery done. Being a doctor myself, I have seen, since the recent past, Asia is becoming a hub for medical tourism. In order to keep your data bills low and save on roaming charges on data, iPhone users can download Onavo apps from iTunes that compresses the data headings and keeps you updated about your data usage.
In the present era, e-travel or e-tourism has become a vital part of the travel industry worldwide, which in itself speaks volumes about the immense use of the modern technology in relation to travel. The tech savvy travellers make their travel more thrilling and fun-filled; thereby taking the travel experience to the next level. The perfect blend of the latest technology with the service makes your travel more efficient, fast, effective, secure, seamless and awesome.
