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You may never have to queue in an airport again. Here’s why
Monday 17th of September 2018
Sitting around the dinner table recently at a family gathering my sister, who lives in Paris, was venting her frustrations about the queues she experienced recently at the electronic border gates in Heathrow airport.
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From recycling to rail fare: Istanbul has a new way to encourage environmentally-aware attitudes
Wednesday 12th of September 2018
What incentive do you have to make sure a plastic bottle you use ends up in a recycling bin?
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The 20-hour flight is coming. Here’s what it might be like
Tuesday 11th of September 2018
What can you do in 20 hours?
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China is building 8 new airports every year
Friday 24th of August 2018
China will become the world’s largest aviation market by 2022, according to the International Air Transport Association, as an expanding middle class and government support for the sector fuel demand for flights and airport construction.
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Chart of the day: London is the Airbnb capital of the world
Friday 17th of August 2018
10 years ago, in early August 2008, the website Airbedandbreakfast.com went online, marking the birth of Airbnb. Back then the three founders, Brian Cheky, Joe Gebbia and Nathan Blecharczyk wanted to help short-term travelers find affordable accommodation and provide renters with an opportunity to make an extra buck by renting out spare rooms or even just the namesake airbed on the floor. Little did they know that 10 years later their little venture would be one of the hottest private companies in the world, valued at nearly $30 billion. Over the years, Airbnb has developed into much more than what it was originally meant to be. These days you can rent millions of houses, apartments and rooms on the platform. For many young travelers is has become the favorite if not the only way to find accommodation when travelling.
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This team of Saudi women designed an award-winning app to make the Hajj safer
Thursday 16th of August 2018
Four young women from Saudi Arabia are challenging stereotypes with their victory at a record-breaking hackathon. Their innovation could even help save lives by making it easier for non-Arabic speaking Hajj pilgrims to navigate their way through five days of religious devotion.
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These autonomous drones could herd birds away from airports
Monday 13th of August 2018
Bird strikes on aircraft may be rare, but not so rare that airports shouldn’t take precautions against them. But keeping birds away is a difficult proposition: How do you control the behavior of flocks of dozens or hundreds of birds? Perhaps with a drone that autonomously picks the best path to do so, like this one developed by CalTech researchers.
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How your commute is changing you
Monday 6th of August 2018
Few activities that bead our everyday lives have earned such dubious notoriety as commuting. That the words “hell” and “nightmare” are sometimes invoked to describe journeys to and from work indicates just how disparaged this part of our lives often is. The commute has often been depicted in dystopian terms, standing for all that is stressful and wearying about our contemporary daily routines.
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Viet Nam’s bridge lets you walk through the giant hands of the gods
Friday 3rd of August 2018
In the mountains of central Vietnam, a colossal pair of hands lifts a golden thread of walkway high above the clifftops, as if the mountain itself has sprouted limbs.
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It’s not your imagination, summers are getting hotter
Thursday 2nd of August 2018
Summers never used to be this hot, did they? You may have asked yourself that question and wondered whether in fact you’re just getting more sensitive to the heat as you get older. But in fact, Summers are getting hotter and we’re all feeling the effects.
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Lift-off: Aerospace start-ups have received $1 billion in investment this year
Thursday 2nd of August 2018
A US space radar company raised $13 million. A Chinese satellite-maker garnered $22 million. A European rocket-builder took in $35 million. Heck, a plan to send a robot to the moon received a $5 million capital injection.
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This map shows the extent of global air travel
Monday 30th of July 2018
In 2017 the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) documented a record-breaking 4.1 billion people waiting in line to check-in, go through security, shuffle on board a plane and take to the skies. This compares to just a few million passengers in the 1950s.
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Overtourism is becoming a major issue for cities across the globe
Friday 20th of July 2018
The summer holidays are in full swing – and protests against overtourism have begun (yet again) in a number of popular European cities. Overtourism is not a new problem.
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Back to the future: flying cars are becoming a reality
Tuesday 17th of July 2018
In 2011, Peter Thiel confronted his Silicon Valley peers with this observation: “We were promised flying cars, but instead we got 140-character tweets.” Thiel wanted to know when the long-awaited innovations of the future were going to see the light of day.
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#Travelgoals: why Instagram is key to understanding millennial tourism
Wednesday 11th of July 2018
While LinkedIn continues to be the go-to service to share professional experiences, millennials have turned to Instagram to create their social brand and narrative. Curating one’s profile is an art – one that many invest significant time in, whether it involves scouting for locations, picture editing or coming up with a cool caption before posting.
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Iceland is building its first Nordic paganist temple in 1000 years
Wednesday 11th of July 2018
The Norse gods are making a strong comeback after a thousand years in the shadows. Outmaneuvered by Christianity around year 1000, Nordic paganism is now Iceland’s fastest growing religion. From 570 members in 2002, the ‘association of the faith of the Æsir’ – Ásatrúarfélagið – now numbers 3900 Icelanders, making it the largest non-Christian religion in the country.
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Boeing’s new concept hypersonic jet could fly from New York to Tokyo in just a couple of hours
Tuesday 3rd of July 2018
There’s fast, and there’s hypersonic. On Tuesday, Boeing unveiled its first concept design for a hypersonic passenger jet during the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) conference in Atlanta. The vehicle could theoretically travel at Mach Five, or five times the speed of sound (6,174 kmh/3,836 mph). At that speed, a flight between New York and Tokyo that currently takes 14 hours would drop to just a couple of hours, according to a Popular Mechanics report.
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These are the world’s most connected airports
Monday 18th of June 2018
In 2017, airlines moved over four billion passengers, a number that continues to grow each year.
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In Finland, speeding tickets are linked to your income
Friday 15th of June 2018
Around 3,400 people die in traffic crashes every day, leading to around 1.25 million deaths globally each year.
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What living abroad does to your self-awareness
Thursday 14th of June 2018
Need another reason to consider moving abroad?
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Why borders could be the next battleground for gender rights
Monday 4th of June 2018
Around 650,000 people in the United Kingdom do not identify as either male or female. For 20 years, non-gendered activist Christie Elan-Cane has been trying to convince the UK Passport Office that such individuals should be allowed to choose ‘X’ on their passports as an alternative to M or F. Elan-Cane further argues that requiring a non-gendered individual to select M or F constitutes a false declaration on a legal document.
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These three technology trends will change the way you travel
Monday 4th of June 2018
People have never travelled as much as they do today. More than four billion of us whizzed through the air in 2017. At the same time, travellers have never been so demanding. We want it all and we want it now. We expect speed, authenticity, personalization, seamlessness and security.
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Half of all electric cars sold last year were sold in China
Monday 4th of June 2018
The number of electric cars on the road is predicted to expand to 125 million worldwide by 2030, due to supportive policies and cost reduction. This is according to a new report from the International Energy Agency that was released on Wednesday.
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Could personalised chatbots be the travel agents of the future?
Wednesday 30th of May 2018
In the year that Stanley Kubrick’s film 2001: A Space Odyssey turns 50, you could be forgiven for asking where is the space-age future we were promised?
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5 ways holiday hotspots can turn the tide on too many tourists
Monday 28th of May 2018
While the majority of vacation destinations around the world impatiently await the arrival of tourists every summer to help drive their economy and create jobs, a few are struggling to manage their popularity. Certain destinations, it appears, have made their way on to everyone’s bucket list.