Category Archives:Travel Apps

If you’re anything like me, when you’re traveling often or living abroad, one thing you miss most from home is the news. Sure, everyone can get online and see headlines from home, but can anything ever really match reading the news from your local newspaper? Enter PressReader.

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First off, I have to admit to you that I am not a huge news junkie. I catch a few headlines here and there but don’t follow them closely. Perhaps to a fault. Husby, however, is a complete newshound. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that he is actually a journalist himself, or something to do with the fact that he grew up reading the iconic Irish Times, a newspaper so large you need four hands to read it.

In all our travels, from China to Prague and now London, he has often yearned to have a proper newspaper to read. Not just something in English produced locally (though there’s nothing wrong with expat newspapers!), but the actual newspapers from home. Then we found PressReader. Read More »

With the launch of the mobile travel app for Tropical Tourism North Queensland (TTNQ) we’re now not only a mobile and online travel guide but also a provider for white label solutions for mobile travel guides. For TTNQ we’ve partnered up with our friends over at TourRadar, who have added their tour data and Facebook apps to the package.

The TTNQ White Label Travel App by tripwolf.

TTNQ App

The TTNQ app is now available in the iTunes store and features up to date information from local tour operators, hotels and sights. The app was built to help travelers not only find their way around this region but to help them plan what they’d like to do and see while they’re there.  The Cairns & Great Barrier Reef mobile apps also pull some of their content from the Australian Tourism Data Warehouse (ATDW).

White Label Solutions

tripwolf is offering different kinds of white label solutions, each fitted to the needs of our customers. We’re using the technology that we used for building our own tripwolf travel app, but we can adapt the app to the needs of the tourism organization.

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Launched yesterday, WildJunket is a brand new travel magazine…for the digital age. Released only in digital format, WildJunket can be downloaded on iPad or other tablet devices, or just to your computer.

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The brainchild of fantastic travel writer and generally awesome person, Nellie Huang, WildJunket covers adventure travel and exotic locales with the aim of:

“Inspiring readers to travel light and travel far.  As an advocate of active travel and environmental awareness, we encourage readers to travel beyond the conventional trail and seek out extraordinary experiences – while keeping our environmental impact to a minimum. “

A worthy goal to be sure, and one that – if Issue #1 is to be any indication – WildJunket achieves very well. Read More »

As you probably already know – we’ve recently won a competition held by World Youth and Student Travel Conference (WYSTC) in Barcelona. We were voted the best travel app 2011, competing against 40 others.  A good reasons to celebrate and kick off the Christmas Season with some free giveaways.

Starting tomorrow, we’re celebrating our win by giving away 5 free tripwolf guides every day for 14 days (regularly $4.99).  Now is the time to get your tripwolf travel guides:

Tuesday November 29th

Rome, Munich, Zurich, Warsaw, Innsbruck

Wednesday November 30th

Berlin, Madrid, Salzburg, Graz, Naples

Thursday December 1st

Italy, Amsterdam, Istanbul, Cologne, Linz

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World Travel Market has come to a close here in London and I have heaved a huge sigh of relief. As I told you two weeks ago, I attended the 4-day conference-cum-fair-cum-travel-wonderland for the first time this past week, and wow. It was a real eye-opener, in some good ways and some bad. First, and perhaps best, it was a wonderful reminder about how big and incredible our world is and how much of it there is to see. It was also a great reminder that the travel industry is alive and well and doing all it can (as far as I can see) to help people travel better, greener and more aware.

The WTM Floor. Photo by Megan Eaves

For me as a writer, it was also a tad frustrating. I come from a writer’s background, meaning I can be a little bit shy, reserved and, just generally fare better with the written word than the spoken one. And World Travel Market is all about networking, meeting people and generally being a gutsy good talker. Try sticking a timid, better-on-paper writer in a room with thousands upon thousands of easy-talking PRs and travel agents, and, well, the results can be mixed.

Whatever my personal experience, though, I certainly learned a few tips and tricks that I’d like to pass on to any bloggers or writers out there thinking of going to next year’s WTM. Read More »

World Travel Market is one of the biggest travel industry events in the world. Held each year in London, the market is one huge conference where travel agents, journalists, tourism boards, websites and governments come together to discuss, debate and connect on all things travel. I am rather ashamed to say that, prior to this year and my recent move to London, I had never heard of World Travel Market before, but I am so excited to be going this year!

Photo: World Travel Market

I’ll be attending this year’s World Travel Market, which is held November 7-10 at ExCeL London, as a jogger (journalist-blogger) on all four days. The first couple of days, I’ll be taking the chance to meet with as many tourism boards, travel agencies and PRs as I possibly can, as well as attending several tweetups, such as the lovely Visit Florida tweetup (@VFWTM #VFWTM) at stand number NA300 on Tuesday from 12-3pm. They’re going to have free wifi and outlets at their stand, as well as the chance to meet the people from Visit Florida and learn about potential blogging trips and other interesting things about the Sunshine State.

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The latest in app news:  Our travel apps for the iPhone and Android, which are already known for great offline maps and Augmented Reality, can now help you get around underground.  We’re announcing today the availability to download subway maps for major cities!
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Along with that, we’ve got even more helpful travel info.  For points of interest where we don’t have the best user content we’re integrating info from Wikipedia.  This info will also be available offline (doing as much as we can to save you money and time abroad!) so as you walk around with your map, (looking not like a tourist but like a suave local checking your text messages) you’ll be able to click on the places on your map, and get all the info right there, for free, without roaming or needing WiFi.

The update is live now ~ download or update your app for free!