This category shows new business ideas that help you with vacations, being in foreign areas and relaxing. These posts cover ideas in the travel and tourism industry along with services to live in leisure.
If you’re a traveler you know the fear that can come with checked luggage. Most times than not your baggage arrives securely, but for times when it gets lost within the spiderweb of backend conveyor belts the drawn out process and waiting for its retrieval enables annoyance and downright frustration.
The Trace Me luggage tag provides airlines, train operators, the police and even local transport companies with the facility to securely identify your luggage and immediately notify you how to retrieve it from anywhere in the world. The tags can be fastened to your briefcase, suitcase, laptop carrier, sporting equipment bags and protects you for life. Simply purchase your Trace Me luggage tags and use the unique code to register them. Voila, instantly trackable tags.
Roadtrippers.com is a fascinating and wonderful site for those looking to take an adventure, plan a trip or find some ideas on where / what to do along the way. We were amazed by the level of depth, powerful route planning tools and the ease of use to plan a road trip across any part of America encompassed in the site.
Roadtrippres.com provides a curated list of destinations that lets you explore the best independent places in America, of which can be browsed and filtered by distance or categories to explore everything on the map. The application tells you how long the trip will take, fuel cost approximations and lets you discover new places for you to checkout while you head toward your destination. A simple site doing a lot of complex things but packed in an elegant and intuitive way.
We shared Foodhost back in August, a platform that brought local communities together to meet and eat amazing meals. NewGusto is a brand new network for foodies to connect with a similar concept. The site lets meet new people, find a dinner party near by and probably enjoy an old-fashioned home-cooked mean (hopefully with grandma’s recipes).
Ever wish our GPS maps had logos of the establishments in an area? City Maps is an immersive brand designed map that goes into the nitty gritty of detailing every New-York, San Francisco and Austin based company in their recently launched web and mobile apps.
One of the most frustrating parts of planning a trip has to be the long time it takes to save up the money to go on the adventure you so desire. myTab is a social travel gift card that is changing the way we pay for and plan our trips. The new social startup asks friends and family to contribute toward a vacation getaway, making it a virtual layaway fund.
Planning anything can sometimes be annoying; unless you like spending hours to make sure your next adventure is jam packed with things to do. But if you’re the more spontaneous type, the thankless act of figuring out every detail is not-fun or just too overwhelming. Drungli is an adventure generator for spontaneous people.
Delivered by Forbes Travel Guide, Startle is an online home for you to find the most outstanding places when planning your next luxury travel escape. The unique platform combines content from expert Forbes Travel Guide writers, curated lists from restaurant, spa and tastemakers, and provides insider deals for the most lavish travelers.
After planning a rather ambitious two-month trip to Europe this summer, I realized that there had to be an easier way to plan my trip than relying on four rather heavy and pricey tourist guidebooks. I also realized that I couldn’t plan much of my trip ahead of time—especially when the reality of travel in Europe is rarely in sync with my initial, optimistically laden plan.
Roamz is a travel companion app for your iPhone that helps you discover new places around you. By integrating into your social media accounts (Facebook, Foursquare, Twitter and Instagram), Roamz provides a live filterable stream that gives you an overview of what others are talking about in your current local area.
“Streetview Updating by Hertz” is a project that is utilizing crowdsourcing to help Google keep their streetview maps up-to-date. With a fleet of over 500,000 cars, Hertz has the equipment and consumer base to equip their rental cars with camera equipment in order to continually update Google’s Street View maps.
