Having rewatched the great Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, it reminded me that airship tech has really gotten far better than… uhhh… hydrogen. But I’m waiting, and what I’m seeing makes me think the Cruise Ship of the Sky could not only be amazing, but also not as totally gross as Cruise Ships.  These…

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Hotel of the future: New experiences, new opportunities ​Technology innovations, changing customer demands, and new competitive threats are pushing hotels to offer increasingly personal, uniquely tailored experiences for every guest on every visit.​ https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/consumer-business/articles/hotel-of-the-future.html

I am incredibly curious about Virtual Reality and how it will relate to, and impact, our industry of travel. Here’s where I am at, right now, and you can see why I am so interested! So up here at the top, the TL;DR is what real-world travel “games” or software have you seen in VR?  Google Earth…

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Global Warming and Over-Tourism.

From a recent large scientific report from the National Academy of Sciences: The next decade may decide humanity’s fate: “[S]elf-reinforcing feedbacks could push the Earth toward a planetary threshold that, if crossed, could prevent stabilization of the climate & cause continued warming on a Hothouse Earth pathway even as human emissions are reduced” — Alex…

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So, the buzzwords and gossip talk for hotel marketing is that people want authentic, personalized experiences, and itineraries that match their mood or proclivities. It seems the rancor for packages (not from guests, but from PR and Marketing) are falling out of favor for finely tuned itineraries that meet people in their own idiom, style,…

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