Travel/Tourism

News, trends, stats, reviews, how-to, apps and accessories to help you use iPad and other tablets in the travel, tourism and hospitality industries.

New York -- An American Airlines executive kicked off the Tablet Strategy conference by detailing the airline’s rapid adoption of tablets and aggressive strategy going forward.

British Airways has rolled out more than 2,000 iPads to senior cabin crew since November, but is now focusing on mobile apps, security and building its internal app store.

Apple’s iPad mini, released in November 2012, is apparently the new star on the tablet playground, and as a companion tool for business.

Airport food and beverage operator OTG has already deployed a thousand iPad-based kiosks at restaurants in New York’s JFK International and LaGuardia and plans to grow that number to 7,000 by the end of 2013 with additional deployments planned for Minneapolis-St. Paul International and Toronto Pearson International airports.

When it comes to tablets, hospitality companies know they need two strategies: one for inside the company, the other customer-facing. La Quinta is moving ahead with both.

A new survey shows the percentage of airline passengers using tablets has almost drawn dead even with those using laptops.

The travel and tourism industry has been thriving on last-minute deals since the dotcom boom at the start of the millennium, but as HotelTonight explains, the future of the industry belongs to mobile.

Road warriors, rejoice. With this collection of tablet apps, your trips, travels, and travails will become that much easier.

The cruise industry is embracing tablets in a variety of ways, incorporating the devices into restaurants, virtual tours of the ship and even selling them at sea.

From doctors to game developers to broadcasters to teachers and more, TabTimes looks at which industries will gain the most from Apple's all-new tablet.

Thanks to IT consumerization and BYOD, tablets are becoming more common in the workplace. Some industries are evolving more rapidly than others, however.

TabTimes checks in with American Airlines on its ongoing deployment of tablets across its fleet of planes.

These days, you don't have to look very hard to find examples of businesses embracing tablet computing in their own ways.

With the holidays around the corner, TabTimes uncovers nine highly useful navigation tablet apps for finding your way to family and friends.