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	Traveling Smarter With Your SmartphoneA lot of people ask us, “What can you do with a map offline?” Sure you can save them – but sometimes that’s tricky, depending on your mobile device settings. Here’s a couple of great articles: http://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-use-google-maps-offline-on-ios-android/ July 3, 2014 http://www.androidpit.com/use-your-google-maps-offline Jul 14, 2014 PS We should also say that our tours include both an Read More »
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	Where to Rock in RioBy Marcelo Mackinnon There is no other city in the world where having a friend to show you around (i.e. Tours4Mobile) will be as useful as in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. With 8000, bars, 3600 restaurants and dozens of kilometers of white, sandy beaches to cover, Rio´s breathtaking tropical atmosphere inspired me to invite you Read More »
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	Finding The Unique – On Your ScheduleBy Liesbet Collaert When you travel to a popular place, there are always the ‘mainstream’ activities and the ‘usual’ ways to do them: an expensive guided tour, a day on the beach, a morning of shopping, an afternoon on the water, being shuttled from here to there. Or, if you are on a tight budget Read More »
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	Had a Blast in Baltimore – Who Would Have Guessed?By Julie Hatfield When my editor at The Boston Globe sent me down to Baltimore to write a travel story on that town, I was not excited. Baltimore? An old, tired city that no one wants to visit, I thought. What does Baltimore have that would make anyone take a trip there? And then I Read More »
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	Smart Use of Your SmartphoneBy Hany Halim Are you smart? Of course you are. You would NEVER be one of those tourists that get to their destination and spend most of their time reading about it, rather than experiencing it… right??? Hi, my name is Hany, and my passion is sharing the mysteries of the Pyramids with smart travelers Read More »
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	Traveling Back In Time – Creating the Future of TravelBy Gordon Burgett “There were no guidelines when I created the first video script and photographed the largest and wildest of the California missions, La Purisima. It sits empty each night about an hour from Santa Barbara, if you head north on 101. In fact, I was writing this maiden tour mostly to develop a Read More »
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	Mobile World Congress Travel SummitBarcelona, Spain: Chairman Hugo Burge, CEO Momondo Group, with panelists Lee McCabe, Head Of Travel, Facebook, Marcus Casey, Head of Ecommerce, Lufthansa, Ryan Kowalczyk, Director Mobile Strategy, Orbitz Worldwide, and Michael Putnam, SVP Mobile, Kayak.com Travel industry leaders met in Barcelona on February 25-26, to hear the challenges and success stories of mobile implementations. This Read More »
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										  Cool Learning Tool Grabs Kids AttentionUse cell phones to teach history, geography, English, or the arts? Yes! Education can be fun & cool? Yes! Teachers can use guided tours for history class or field trips, with 50% off this month during our Back To School promotion at VisualTravelTours. Read More »
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										  New Web App Tours4Mobile AnnouncedTours4Mobile (T4M), the leading provider of self-guided tours that play on smartphones and tablets, is pleased to announce a new release, a mobile web app with benefits for their B2B partners as well as travelers who like to explore on their own schedule. Travelers have been using self-guided tours to preview and navigate destinations throughout Read More »
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										  Oktoberfest – Best Beer FestivalHave you been there? Go yjis year in September/October – and/or go on a virtual visit with T4M. The Oktoberfest in Munich is the world’s biggest beer festival. Who hasn’t dreamt of visiting one day? First held in 1810, it has grown in size and popularity ever since. Today, over 6 million visitors from all Read More »
 
							 
						





