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Finding The Unique – On Your Schedule
By 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
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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
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Smart Use of Your Smartphone
By 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
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Traveling Back In Time – Creating the Future of Travel
By 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
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Mobile World Congress Travel Summit
Barcelona, 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
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Cool Learning Tool Grabs Kids Attention
Use 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.
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New Web App Tours4Mobile Announced
Tours4Mobile (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
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Oktoberfest – Best Beer Festival
Have 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
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Travel Gifts Under $10
Is someone on your gift list travelingsoon? Give them a “tour guide” to show them around. These walking and driving tours are now available on Kindle, Nook, and of course here at VisualTravelTours. For a limited time QuietGuides are only $9.99. Designed for any mobile device (iPhone, Android, and other) that displays a PDF, they
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Theme Park Guides On Your Cell Phone
Taking the family to a theme park this vacation? Be sure to download a behind-the-scenes expert guide to preview where you’re going, lead you around while there, or enjoy with the arm-chair travelers at home. Four Florida theme park VisualTravelTours have just been released for Kindle devices, the most popular product selling on Amazon.com! Disney Hollywood
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