Living like a local has become a defining travel trend of the last half-decade. Ben Brown checks out Zipskee, a social platform that helps you make friends over...
Since launching in July, location-based augmented reality smartphone game Pokemon Go has become a global phenomenon. But unlike other video games, this one is i...
Travel companies such as Kayak, Hipmunk, Expedia and Skyscanner have all recently launched 'bots' with artificial intelligence to help customers book trips onli...
Navmii chief marketing officer Zoe Laycock tells Globetrender about the future of navigation, how it will make sure you always find a space in a multi-storey ca...
From bespoke holidays to on-demand private jets, Ben Brown reports on the members-only travel apps that behave like your own personal agent.
We take travel app...
Virtual reality is not only transforming the world of entertainment but travel too. New Globetrender contributor Ben Brown investigates how VR technology is bei...
New Globetrender contributor Rachael Ellenger investigates Sneakairs. A new form of wearable tech developed in partnership with Easyjet, these "smart" trainers ...
Two new luxury cruise trains will begin operations in Japan next year, with the launch of the Twilight Express Mizukaze from JR West, and the Train Suite Shiki-...
Tamara Sword is cofounder of Infltr, an innovative photography app with more than five million filters. Here she discusses the future of digital nomads, in a wo...
Jenny Southan speaks to Giles Rhys Jones, chief marketing officer for startup tech company What3Words, about how it's new geocoding address system means there i...
A new study from Juniper Research has revealed that shared space providers such as Airbnb will see revenues surpass ride-sharing apps such as Uber over the next...
As we become ever-more obsessed with our smartphones and tablet computers, the need to go offline by taking a digital detox break increases. However, a recent s...
Imagine, for a moment, you are buying a superyacht that is being built from scratch. How do you decide what the layout of the decks will be, the number of bedro...
A woman walks into a hotel lobby and addresses a 2.5-foot tall white robot with a smile. "Hi Connie," she says. "How may I help you?" the toy-like automaton rep...
A cabin-sized suitcase that has so far generated US$2 million from crowdfunding site Indiegogo claims to be the world's first example of "smart" luggage.
Syn...
Launched in 2013, real-estate search site Place I Live has launched an intuitive new feature called Place I Live Match, which is designed to reveal the ideal pa...
An innovative new peer-to-peer delivery app called Boomerang enables people to request specialist products from London and Paris to be delivered by travellers u...
Mobile technology is powering an "on-demand" economy whereby urbanites can buy almost anything instantly, online, at the swipe of a screen and have it delivered...
Global travel dating and companion platform Tourbar has revealed a 970 per cent year-on-year increase in new UK members.
Since November 2014, Tourbar has acc...
Personal seat-back screens are great, but not all airlines load their in-flight entertainment (IFE) systems with a varied choice of up-to-date movies and TV sho...
As the budget airline celebrates 20 years of service, it announces a 2016 trial of new “wearable tech” uniforms for both cabin crew and engineers.
The de...
Encased in Italian Carrara marble and hand-crafted in Germany, these state-of-the-art "electrostatic" headphones are said to be the best in the world. They are ...
London-based catering company Absolute Taste has unveiled an app for made-to-order meal deliveries straight to your private jet.
Designed for both crews and ...
With 50 million global users, the popularity of Airbnb is huge but online fraud is growing in equal measure, and scammers are coming up with ever-more ingenious...
