How Technology Changed the Way We Travel

5 Major Ways Technology Is Changing The Way You Travel

Xianqing DONG/Gongting WANG

Whether you admit or not, technology is changing the way we travel. Besides we could travel faster, we could privilege to better, more convenient and affordable with various travel application. Here are 5 major ways which show how technology change the way we travel.

Virtual and Augmented Reality

As the Virtual reality technology widely used in daily life like Google maps and Pokémon Go, The potential of virtual reality in the tourism industry is enormous. with virtual reality technology, tourists can take anyone on a guided tour of your destination around the world.

Crowdsourcing travel tips

The widely used of blogs and various ranking application made tourists no longer need to rely on guidebooks. For example, before tourists’ travel, they can check the comments on TripAdvisor to choose their restaurants, trips.

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Phones = convenience

When you cannot find a map, you can easily click Google Map. When you cannot get a taxi, you can use Uber. Futhurmore tourists could use Instagram or other photograph application to take better pictures.

Easy to travel cheaper

With the development of technology, tourists have a large amount of information within their fingertips. they can now browse and compare hotels, fight with their smartphone or computer.

Furthermore. When tourists travel to new country, instead of buying a new sim card, if you have an Internet connection, you can easily stay touch with your family by Skype, What’s up.

Reading material takes less space

Nowadays, you can travel smarter, lighter, with the change of physical books to e-books.

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