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Ladies, have you posted your bare-face selfies?
Recently, the Guardian shared its key milestones in the evolution of online travel. Since the launch of the web, there have been a variety of significant developments, launches and acquisitions that have seen a change in the way consumers/businesses book and purchase travel online. From the first digital catalogues and hotel booking systems in 1994 to the launch of Facebook in 2004, the world of travel has been changing at a frantic pace. As a mobile generation, same day booking platforms are the latest travel trend – harnessing the opportunity of ‘consumers on the move’. As the revolution continues, we can only begin to imagine what the next 25 years will bring…
We all aspire to be a stylish traveller, but sometimes it’s just not that easy. With stuffy flights, connection sprints and weather that just can’t make up its mind, it’s hard enough to just keep up with it all, let alone be stylish. Luckily for us American retailer J Crew has teamed up with Casey Neistat (world-famous YouTuber best known for his inspirational ‘Make it Count’ video with Nike) to share his 17 top tips for stylish travel to promote the new Ludlow Suit. Fast-paced, quirky and just downright enjoyable… this video is a much watch before heading on your next adventure.
Are you umming and arring over your perfect summer holiday? Well now you don’t have to, thanks to Thomson and First Choice who have launched a new ‘try before you buy’ tool. The ‘Holiday Open Day’ tool will allow indecisive travellers to identify the holiday options that are bested suited to them as well as being given a virtual tour from a first person perspective, that allows holidaymakers to choose preferred elements as they go along. The tool has been created to give potential travellers an insight into the day in a life of a TUI holidaymaker.
Women on Facebook and Twitter have been posting make-up free, bare-face ‘selfies’ with the hashtag #nomakeupselfie, to help raise awareness and support for Cancer Research UK. So far the pictures have helped raise over £1million. The #nomakeupselfie trend isn’t actually something Cancer Research UK started but if people would like to support their work to beat cancer they can visit www.cruk.org.
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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