Bedroom, Ellerman House, Cape Town, South Africa.
More and more hotels worldwide are offering in-room iPads to their guests.
One of the latest hotels is South Africa’s Ellerman House which will introduce iPads to each of its 11 luxury rooms and villa in coming months.
iPad Spain.
Many travelers are calling Apple’s new iPad the hottest travel gear of 2010.
At traveling greener, we’re loving our new iPad and finding out what’s possible for greener travel.
Why do we love the iPad now? Reading, reading, reading! Since the iPad arrived, we’ve read ebooks, digital magazines and newspapers, websites and documents.
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Digital versions of your favorite travel magazines are greener, more mobile alternatives to their paper versions.
Select airlines and media companies are featuring free digital versions of their magazines on their sites. While more travel magazines are offering a free preview of their digital version and digital subscriptions.
In other cases, magazines are opting to enhance their online profile, increasing current and archived content on their sites. If you’re seeking digital travel magazines, sites like Zinio sell subscriptions to diverse consumer and trade publications.
We love Wend Magazine (above), which specializes in adventure/inspiration/travel/activism. The magazine launched its digital version over a year ago.
Says Stiv Wilson, Editor in Chief, Wend Magazine:
“We invested in the digital platform for several reasons. Even though we pay through the nose for locally sourced FSC certified paper and print locally, digital is still, of course, greener…It’s been received well. For one, it’s great to have this asset for international subscribers, and because production is a fixed cost, it allows poor college students and the like to be able to get a subscription on a cheap beer budget. Also, it’s a tremendous marketing tool…”
