October 15, 2009
Take the stress out of travel! With Travel Safe you can keep sensitive and important information safe and close at hand.
Take the stress out of your travel! Store sensitive and important information in your phone in a secure, safe system that enables you to retrieve what you need in a moment’s notice!
For a €4.95 one-time fee Psiloc’s premium Travel Safe plug-in will help take the stress and worry out of your next trip by allowing you to store necessary, sensitive or simply difficult-to-remember information in a secure vault in your mobile phone.
Travel Safe includes pre-defined fields for credit card, insurance, travel visa, passport, driver’s license numbers, etc. There is also a field for lock combinations, which is perfect for storing suitcase and baggage lock numbers, as well as hotel safe combinations.
The Travel Safe application is a perfect compliment to Psiloc’s World Traveler platform, which features services such as weather updates, a world clock and currency converter—all which create a seamless travel experience with what you need to know at your fingertips.
More plug-in services are coming so stay tuned for new interesting travel related features!
October 13, 2009
Preston Smith, Editor, Psiloc
Just when you thought big government was useless, the men in black step in to surprise you.
Well, make that the men in gray. At any rate, in what should be considered great news for travelers the U.S. Transportation Department has finally begun fining airlines—and more fines are likely to come—for “arbitrarily” reimbursing or failing to reimburse passengers for lost baggage, according to a report by the Associated Press.
The move comes in lieu of the now widespread practice of basically ignoring a passenger’s complaints once his baggage disappears—especially if lost items have been purchased less than 24 hours before a trip. Thankfully, the U.S. Transportation Department has finally stepped in to say enough is enough. Passengers will now be compensated up to USD 3,300 for lost baggage—or the fines will come.
Well, to put this very directly, it’s about freakin’ time.
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October 7, 2009
Here’s an easy riddle: When does bad news become good news?
Just about any time that you still have money when others don’t.
As brutal as this sounds, it could not be more true than in the big, wide world of travel where the global recession has emptied hotels and forced travel suppliers of all kinds to adapt to a world with much less available cash than anyone would have predicted a year ago. Simply put, in a down economy—if you’ve still got even a little disposable income—the world of travel is in the palm of your hand.
But first let’s take a closer look at the bad news: Put simply, the hotel industry took a huge hit in 2009, with some experts stating that the fall equaled to or surpassed that seen following 9/11. Worse, it is clear that the slide will continue. The global hotel forecast, according to American Express Business Travel sees prices falling in 2010 in North American mid-range hotels by 1 to 4 percent, with upper range hotels looking to see a dip of 3 to 5 percent. Europe looks to be slightly less volatile, with prices sliding by 2 percent in mid-range hotels—although with a best-case scenario of a 2 percent upswing in prices.
Even gambling has been hit hard by the recession. Photo courtesty of Wikipedia Commons/Palmtree3000.
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