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Time to trade in your Travel Guide for a Phone App?
Travel publishing is shifting – Founders are taking a back seat and consumers are turning to digital rather than paperback for their destination information.
Mark Ellingham, publisher of the first Rough Guide 25 years ago predicts that within the next five years guidebooks will go almost completely digital. More and more consumers will turn to digital, like the iPhone and Android, as the media becomes more relevant and useful and the book market continues to stagnate and decline.
So…is it the last chapter for paperback guidebooks? Let’s explore the era of the application.
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T+L top travel tricks of 2009
The best tips for how to spend less, avoid hassles and skip the long lines:
booking, hotels, transportation, money….
Click here to view T+L slideshow
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Free! London National Gallery application for iPhone
Love Art: National Gallery is a 209 MB free application offered by the London National Gallery.
250 paintings and around 200 minutes of audio and video comments.
A must-have application for your iPhone if your are visiting London.
Download Love Art from Apple’s online iTunes store
More info on National Gallery website: http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/news/iphone-app
3Summer travel applications for BlackBerry
We haven’t written anything about BlackBerry applications but they do exist:
RIM application store has less than 5% as many as Apple’s App Store for the iPhone and iPod Touch (around 65,000 apps).
If you are looking for the best BlackBerry applications for this summer, I recommend you this excelent slideshow:
http://www.cio.com/article/497717/_Best_BlackBerry_iPhone_Apps_for_Summer_Travel?page=2#slideshow
0Travel Gadgets for your next trip
Tim Bajarin has written a post about his favorite applications and gadgets he uses when he travels.
You’ll find a list of 12 excellent iPhone applications that will cover most of your needs (free applications to $9.99)
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2350406,00.asp
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