Travel News

Lonely Planet's "Wenzani" app is making vacationing easier by organizing reviews in one convenient place, giving travelers accessible information on the go.

Delta Airlines travelers can now track their baggage on their smartphones with an app, taking the guesswork out of locating bags in a busy airport.

Airline travel is plagued with long security lines, annoying checked-bag fees, and flight delays, but an app aims to help find the right seat, giving travelers more control and convenience over their experience.

Travel planning site Gogobot released its much-anticipated iPhone mobile app to explore and discover restaurants, bars, activities, hotels and itineraries created on its main site, ramping up mobile efforts to become the primary social platform for travel.

A new app rolls local, social and mobile technologies into one, giving users an intelligent filter to organize their social schedules, adding a new wrinkle in providing real-time, location information to the app landscape.

A new mobile app assists in travel planning by enlisting the help of friends, demonstrating another way social media is becoming an essential tool in people's everyday lives.

Scandinavian Airlines released an iPhone app, called "The TimeKiller," which offers games to pass time, but cleverly promote its on-time flight record.

A new app keeps track of where you've been and where you want to go to build an anonymous database, which could eventually lead to ads or coupons from popular merchants.

A new iPhone app promises to cut data costs through a compression scheme that could be particularly useful for travelers.

"Room 77," an iPhone app and website, gives information about the individual rooms in a hotel, going beyond photographs found on traditional hotel review sites to help users select a place to stay on their travels.

A slate of apps aimed at travelers have revolutionized the way people travel, offering everything from breathtaking National Geographic maps to organizing trips to even reading menus in foreign languages.

A new iPhone app helps surfers in Australia check surf and weather conditions, bringing technology savvy to the country's famed beach culture.

Google today added a "Conversation Mode" to its translation app for Android, which aims to interpret real-time conversations between two people talking two different languages.