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Welcome debuts a smarter city guide app on iOS, backed by $3.5M led by Accel

When you’re exploring a city — whether one you’re visiting on your travels or your own — there are a number of tools that can help you find out where to go, what to see and wha

Essential tools for today’s digital nomad

There could be as many as 1 billion remote workers by 2035, but the world isn't ready for the digital nomad movement.

Ford partners with geocoding startup what3words

Ford is partnering with what3words to give drivers access to the startup’s novel addressing system. Under the partnership, drivers will be able to connect to the free what3words app — on a

Cambassy lets you be your country’s digital ambassador

Cambassy is a new app that lets you share the favorite things about your town, city or country. You can think of it as a sort of breadcrumb travelogue that you leave behind for others to find and lets

Lonely Planet launches an Instagram-like Trips app

Lonely Planet has a new app for travel enthusiasts. Called Trips, the app uses an Instagram-like design populated with beautiful images of far away places. Much like Lonely Planet's website, the idea

Can You Fear Me Now?

I write to you from Aqaba, Jordan, a town made famous when conquered by "Lawrence of Arabia" and Faisal al-Hashimi 99 years ago, at a confluence where today four nations divide a mere 25 miles of coa

Lonely Planet Acquires Mobile Travel App TouristEye

Earlier this year, we wrote about <a target="_blank" href="http://www.touristeye.com/">TouristEye</a>, a mobile app for <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/07/02/touristeye-getaway-recommendations/">

Revolutions On The Road

<img src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/king-jon.jpg" />I almost miss the bad old days. When I first started wandering around some of the more obscure <a href="http://rezendi.com/t

Lonely Planet's 25 travel guides get a dose of Augmented Reality

<img src="http://eu.beta.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/compass-rome-139x300.jpg" alt="" title="compass-rome" width="139" height="300" class="shot" /><a href="http://www.lonelyplanet.co.uk">Lonely

Lonely Planet Learns A Lesson From Eyjafjallajokull (Video)

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/lonelyplanet.jpg" alt="" /><a href="http://www.lonelyplanet.com/campaigns/iphone/">Lonely Planet</a> has revamped its price structure--- the t