While the top priority of many travelers is finding cheap airplane tickets or cheap vacation packages, advanced travel planning is a must unless you are planning to spend all of your time in meetings or hotel rooms. With todays technology, prospective travelers have many options when preparing for a trip, ranging from reading travel books, to researching on the Internet and watching video regarding your destination.
It used to be that serious tourists who wanted to get the most out of their trips had to lug heavy travel books when they traveled. Now technologically savvy tourists can bring along an iPad instead, which only weighs 1.4 pounds. Impressive travel tools are available for download, including ebooks by Lonely Planet. Travel guidebooks are currently only available from Apples iBookstore and cost $14.99 to download.
The information is similar to what you would find in paper guidebooks with chapters on countries history and culture. These books are organized in a way that readers can check out specific cities, towns or areas of interest. They include colorful easy to read maps that are interactive enabling users to zoom into desired neighborhoods and streets. Bookmarks and highlights can be made effortlessly with the tap of a finger.
As long as uses are able to connect to the Internet, over 3,000 hyperlinks empower users to connect directly to a hotel or venues website.
You dont have to own an iPad in order to take advantage of the travel technology revolution. Hundreds of travel books are available for the Kindle electronic reader, as well as hundreds of city guides and phrase book apps are available for the iPhone and travel apps for the Android and other travel offerings for BlackBerry. Travelers use different products at different times depending on what is most convenient.
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