Mashable
 From the early days of the modern Internet, the promise of virtual reality has captured the imagination of online denizens around the world. Being anywhere, anytime in an instant is a dream we've been chasing forever and trying to do just that from the comfort of your own desktop was woven into the DNA of the Internet since its inception.
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Inside Reality
 Brian Krassenstein writes: When I look well out on the horizon, I envision a time when the travel industry begins to lose business and virtual reality travel steps in to offer affordable virtual travel anywhere, anytime. Of course I didn't imagine that such an offering would already come to fruition, but heck, technology progresses rapidly, right?
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 When thinking of Scotland; images should appear of great golf, stunning scenery, castles, palaces, whisky distilleries, charming islands, city festivals, lovely architecture, amazing resorts, quality hotel and restaurants, vibrant city centers ... and a welcoming smile! Scotland Tours plan all these types of tours and more.
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Skift
After a weekend of speculation around Alaska Airlines and JetBlue Airways attempting to buy Virgin America, Alaska has emerged as the winner, announcing this morning that it was acquiring Virgin for $57 per share in cash.
Combined with Virgin's debt and aircraft operating leases of approximately $1.4 billion, the ultimate value of the deal is $4 billion.
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San Francisco Gate
There are people who hunt for airfare bargains, and then there is Sam Huang. Huang is in another league.
Huang runs a site called TopMiles, wherein he documents his wanderlust and provides tips and tricks to navigating the travel landscape. He goes on incredible frugally-minded excursions from time to time but his most recent flight from Sydney, Australia to Abu Dhabi, might be his best yet.
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Travel-Intel Newsletter
 A new airfare study sheds light on not only when is the best time to buy airline tickets, but also identifies five booking zones to help travelers plan trips and save money.
After analyzing 1.3 billion airfares from 2015, CheapAir.com found that, on average, the best time to buy a domestic flight is 54 days in advance. The study included 1,336,030,117 airfares for roughly 3 million different trips across every day of the year.
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Travel and Tour World
 Millennials, the generation of tech- savvy digital natives currently in their twenties and early thirties, will account for nearly half of the workforce by 2020. And it wouldn’t be wrong to say that a new generation of business travelers is quickly becoming a force to be remembered. Thus, the whole new wave of travel habits and expectations are going to emerge, if these have not already emerged, which would vary vastly from that of the previous generations.
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Airline.ee
A great April Fools' Day marketing by WestJet.
Meet RALFH, the "Robotic Automated Light Food Handler."
WestJet announced the robotic food dispenser with a social media campaign, along with a press release, but it turned around that it was an April Fools' day joke.
Oh, it would be so nice to have this on board!
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