Travel Secrets Nov-Dec 2015 | Page 26

Selfie tour with personal photographers Who doesn’t love a selfie, or even better, a ‘professional’ selfie? Taking the notion of ‘pics or it didn’t happen’ to a new level, the Selfie Tour of Nicaragua with El Camino Travel ensures you can document every moment of your trip. The trip package includes a personal photographer who will guide you to secluded beaches, surfing and roaming artisanal markets over six nights and seven days. Each traveller will get 20 social media-ready pictures every day, plus another 150 at the end of the trip. Say cheese! Source: www.elcamino.travel Heathrow’s new ‘Smart Screens’ Heathrow airport’s Terminal 2 in London has launched a new airport technology The Smart Screens serve as realtime journey comparison generators for passengers who haven’t been able to connect their phones to a wireless network. The screens provide live comparisons on price and travel time to get to central London between a taxis and the airport’s express train service. Source: www.heathrowexpress.com Luxury Hotel Virtual Reality Tours The decadent Shangri-La Hotels are making a move to the future by offering virtual reality tour of their 94 locations world-wide. Partnering with travel experts, these tours will be witnessed through Samsung VR headsets and display the luxuriousness and excitement of every hotel and destination. Giving a 360-degree view of everything from a presidential suite to a beautiful view from the Lhasa location and a car transfer in the middle of China—the tours are meant to give a taste of what the travellers could experience. Source: www.shangri-la.com 26  Travel Secrets November-December 2015