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Sunday, 27 April 2014

NTES launched by Indian Railways to monitor train schedule

Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS), the information and technology arm of railways, has launched a new mobile application which can be used for various enquiries including train timings, a senior Railway official said: reports, PTI.
The 'Train Schedule' feature provides complete schedule of a train with all stoppages en route and its scheduled arrival/ departure at the station, distance and day count.
The mobile app also has "Cancelled Trains" option which displays all trains marked as cancelled. It displays trains which are cancelled through the entire route as well as trains which are cancelled on partial route.
Besides, it also provides features for query on rescheduled and diverted trains.

National Train Enquiry System (NTES) is railways' back-end system which provides information to the public about train schedules on a near real time basis through various interfaces like nationwide unique rail enquiry number 139, website, mobile interfaces, touch screens, enquiry counters and display boards at stations.
The NTES app is now available as a free download for phones running on Windows Phone 8 .0 phones. PTI says the app will also be developed for other platforms.

Thursday, 24 April 2014

Travel Useful Sites www.touristeye.com * www.ixigo.com * www.tripadvisor.in http://travel.tripcase.com www.trippy.com

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* www.trippy.com

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THE BEHEADED STATUES OF NEMRUT DAGI IN TURKEY

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CONCH BAR CAVES: THE LARGEST LIMESTONE CAVE SYSTEM IN THE CAICOS ISLANDS

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www.wikivoyage.org the free worldwide travel guide that anyone can edit.

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the free worldwide travel guide that anyone can edit.

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www.wikivoyage.org Mount Kilimanjaro (pictured) is the highest freestanding mountain in the world.
In Kitakyushu you can walk between the islands ofKyushu and Honshu through an
undersea tunnel.
Beerenberg on Jan Mayen is the world’s northernmost active volcano.

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www.fest300.com Fest300

Fest300

Why Fest300?

The more virtual we get, the more ritual we need.

Our need for in-person human connection is a reaction to how obsessed we’ve become with our iPhones and Facebook. In his world travels, hotelier Chip Conley found that there is a unique “collective effervescence” to be experienced at festivals. Yet, when he looked for a place that documented the most diverse, iconic gatherings and spectacles of our time, there wasn’t one. He wanted to see a beautifully curated site that offered a window into the living human museum of festival life. Fest300 was born.

Photo credit: Nick Gamman

Why 300 festivals?

As we started evaluating the best festivals in the world, we found that most resources cataloguing these events had between 100 and 500 listings. As we made our own lists of favorites, we hovered in the range of 300 which felt like a workable list. The list is large enough to be both inspirational and aspirational. Fortune lists the 500 largest companies, and Forbes the 400 richest people in the world. We chose 300 experiences as the right number to capture the wide diversity and best festivals the world has to offer.

Why this particular 300?

Why does a museum curator choose particular art pieces and display them in a specific way? At Fest300, we're curating experiences. We didn’t want to be too dependent on one particular genre (like arts or spiritual festivals), particular part of the world, or time of year. Truth is, we could have focused solely on European summer music festivals and had an impressive list of 300. There are hundreds of thousands of festivals - many just being hatched, some more than 2,000 years old. We intend to publish an annual list and crowdsource the final ten percent each year. We will present 270 festivals in early 2014 and then invite you to join us in selecting the final 30 to complete the 300. Our annual Best of Fest subset highlights what we believe to be the 50 most influential and interesting festivals on the planet, again with an eye on diversity. Creating your Bucket List? Consider some of the Best of Fest.

Why Chip Conley?

Did he wake up one day with a calling to be the world’s leading expert on festivals? Actually, yes, it sort of happened that way. Chip had an epiphany when he realized he’d spent 25 years of his life focused on creating “joie de vivre” at work with the boutique hotel company he founded. When someone asked him why he loved both Bali and Burning Man so much, he realized that his cultural curiosity led him to travel the world seeking out parades, pilgrimages, parties, and anything that created the magic of collective joy in a festival format. Fest300 allows Chip to be a new kind of concierge: part travel pro, cultural anthropologist, and armchair psychologist, helping people to discover the festival that may create the conditions for a transformational experience. He spent the first half of his life working Joie de Vivre. Now he's spending the second half living joie de vivre. And he hopes Fest300 brings you some joy, too.

Why should you join us?

Given the momentum of growth in festival culture around the world, we believe there’s a nascent movement afoot. While Fest300.com is a URL, more and more people are seeking an IRL (In Real Life) experience that gives them a sense of meaning. Being culturally curious creates a more resilient and robust life and, as a planet, it creates a safer and saner world. We invite you to join our community and attend at least one festival per year - preferably one a little out of your comfort zone because it’s on that edge that our personal growth and insight flourishes. We also welcome your photo "festimonials" and your suggestions for festivals we should cover in our Fest300 magazine. Let’s go!

www.fest300.com

www.touristlink.com TouristLink Your Travel Social Network

Your Travel Social Network

Meet Travel Companions and Locals. Find Tour Guides and Homestays. Share Experiences!

Travel is all about new experiences. No matter where you're going, Touristlink gives you opportunity to get a real feel of the culture. Meet up with a local for a coffee or beer, find travel companions to share the journey, or if you want arrange a tour with an independent guide. If you are looking to find a tour guide we will email your trip plan to relevant local guides and tour operators.

Post your trip
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Get Connected
Once it's posted locals and other travelers going the same place can see it and contact you. If you're looking for a guide or great travel deal will email your trip plan to the local tour operators so they may contact you.

Enjoy your Trip
Half of travel is meeting new and interesting people. Take a chance and see where Touristlink takes you. Get started.

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http://goo.gl/w6oQRL TripIt Travel Organizer – Free

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Organize your travel plans in one place with TripIt® from Concur. Simply forward your travel confirmation emails to plans@tripit.com and TripIt automagically creates a detailed daily itinerary for every trip.

Key Features
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The experts agree:
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Rhonda Abrams, USA Today: "Best Apps for Small Business" – June 2013
CNET: "8 apps you need for summer travel plans" – May 2013
7x7 Magazine: "Fourteen Essential Apps for the Savvy Traveler" – April 2013
TODAY Show: "6 best smartphone apps for 2013" – January 2013
Wall Street Journal: "The Best Apps for Keeping Track of Holiday Travel Mayhem" – December 2012
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India Travel Guide by Triposo
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A complete interactive guide to India that works offline.

Features:
- India In Depth: the background info that you need to have before you go.
- A country map highlighting all the cities and national parks.
- Complete city guides for Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Agra and Kolkata with lots of sights, restaurants, things to do and an offline city map.
- Mini guides for less important destinations.
- Hindi, Tamil and Telugu Phrasebooks.

About Triposo:

We make great, interactive travel guides.
To make our guides we use the content that is freely available. Open content sites like Wikitravel, Wikipedia, World66 and Openstreetmap are among the best resources for any traveler. Our mission is to make that content relevant for you. So we mix and mash and annotate - and we distill great, relevant travel guides out of it.

We like open content. In fact some of us were involved in World66, one of the first open content travel guides on the web. Triposo's travel guides are very much a re-mix of open content out there.

Currently we're using content from: Wikipedia, Wikitravel, World66, Open Streetmaps, DMOZ and Chefmoz

We're big fans of these projects. If you stumble across some inaccurate information in this guide, we would appreciate

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http://goo.gl/9aoaeF PicPack - Group Travel Photos

PicPack - Group Travel Photos
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PicPack helps a group of busy travelers capture all of the photos taken by everyone on their trip and effortlessly share their travel adventures in a public, organized timeline in real time and for FREE!

· PicPack magically builds an organized, public timeline of your trip

· Invite your trip mates to join your PicPack and all photos get added to one timeline

· Take photos just like you do now or using the app

· Import photos from any device – smartphone, tablet camera or computer – and easily add to your PicPack

· See your friends' photos & check-ins as they happen, even if you split up

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· Create as many PicPacks as you like

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http://goo.gl/hwOJkP MapmyIndia for Windows

MapmyIndia Maps

In this release:
- A completely revamped user interface with native theme support
- Real time traffic information on maps and driving directions 

Maps with house number details, landmark-based driving directions with search for useful places along the route and search nearby across a hundred categories. MapmyIndia makes sure you find what you're looking for and takes you there!




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http://goo.gl/xgJilm Maps by MapmyIndia

Maps by MapmyIndia
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Download MapmyIndia Maps for your phone and get:

- The most accurate and updated interactive maps of India with house number and street-level detail
- Step-by-step driving directions from your current location or between any two points in India
- Search for businesses, localities, cities, or just about any other place by name
- Find millions of useful places of interest like ATMs, restaurants, petrol pumps, hospitals, hotels and hundred other categories in and around any location

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http://goo.gl/8lzg91 TimesCity Restaurant finder

TimesCity Restaurant finder
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Search and find restaurants and bars & clubs to decide where to eat. Get the latest movie showtimes and information of new movie releases. The TimesCity app is your weekend planner & informs you what’s trending in your city.

Features:

* Find new and trending restaurants in your city.
* Search for restaurant menus.
* Read critic reviews, write your own reviews and even rate restaurants.
* Search for movie show timings, movie reviews and find movie theatres near you.
* Get recommendations on nearby restaurants and nightclubs.
* Get a list of the best events happening in your city.
* Find all event and restaurant related information including phone numbers, addresses and cost for two.
* Get order food online and list of restaurants provide home delivery facility.
* Prior to phone access, call restaurants, establishments, theatres and event venues directly from the app.

From the yummiest of food to the most happening restaurants, to the best of events, nightclubs and even blockbuster movies - discover what's trending in your city with TimesCity. What's more, you can easily change your location for when you are out of town.

For more information visit http://www.timescity.com/mobile or find us at https://plus.google.com/+timescity‎

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Tripomatic Trip and Itinerary Planner, Travel Guide and Offline City Map

Tripomatic is the easiest way to create your own travel itinerary. Plan your trip in just a few minutes. Discover thousands of attractions in 400+ destinations worldwide, directly from your phone. Plan your journey day by day straight from the app. All your trips are automatically synced to www.tripomatic.com and can also be edited on the web.

* Tripomatic is an award-winning travel planning platform featured by BBC, The Next Web, Lifehacker, Gizmodo and many others.

MAIN FEATURES:

• DAY-BY-DAY TRAVEL PLANNING
- Make your personal travel guide straight from your phone
- Discover great attractions nearby your location
- Explore sights with photos, contacts, opening hours and admission fees
- Download and print out an amazing PDF guide (available for free on www.tripomatic.com)

• BEAUTIFUL CUSTOM MADE MAPS
- Enjoy built-in detailed and walking friendly maps
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• HOTELS AND TOURS
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• ALL MAJOR DESTINATIONS
- Available for more than 400 destinations worldwide
- Enjoy easier trip planning with trip templates

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• SYNCS ACROSS ALL YOUR DEVICES
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Plan your trip to:

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• SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA
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• EUROPE
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• ASIA
Abu Dhabi, Bali, Bangkok, Beijing, Beirut, Busan, Calcutta, Dhaka, Dubai, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Jakarta, Jerusalem, Macau, Manila, Mumbai, New Delhi, Osaka, Pattaya, Phnom Penh, Sapporo, Seoul, Shanghai, Siem Reap, Singapore, Taipei, Tbilisi, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Yerevan.

• AUSTRALIA AND OCEANIA
Adelaide, Auckland, Brisbane, Fiji, Hawaii, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney, Wellington.

• AFRICA
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What's New in Version 2.5.1

This update is mainly about maps. Here's what we've improved:

- Tooltips can be tapped anywhere to open the corresponding detail.
- The more important the item, the more visible it is.
- A compass is now shown once you start the "follow me" mode.
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http://goo.gl/gsqNRW Tripomatic Travel Guide & Maps

Tripomatic Travel Guide & Maps
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Tripomatic is the only travel guide you will need to create your travel itinerary. You will find all the attractions in your destination on an interactive map. You can select what you want to see and make your personalized travel guide in a few minutes. Or you can just check the map to find out what interesting places there are nearby you.

Maps in the app are specially tailored for travelers and they are walking friendly. Tripomatic travel guides are available for more than 400 destinations worldwide.

Tripomatic app was featured at BBC, PC Magazine or The Guardian.

With Tripomatic you can:
- Download offline maps (available as in-app purchase)
- Enjoy built-in detailed and walking friendly maps
- See transport lines on the map in popular destinations
- Make your travel guide to several destinations at once
- Choose your hotel and book it instantly from the app
- Edit your personalized travel guide anywhere from any device with a web browser using http://www.tripomatic.com

If you have any problems with the app, please get in touch with us at team@tripomatic.com, at our Facebook page http://facebook.com/TripomaticCom or at our Twitter http://twitter.com/Tripomatic_com. We will do our best to help you and fix the problem asap.

You can make your own travel guide for the following cities:

☆ NORTH AMERICA
Albany, Anchorage, Atlanta, Atlantic City, Austin, Bahamas, Baltimore, Boston, Calgary, Cambridge, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, El Paso, Halifax, Honolulu, Houston, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Memphis, Miami, Montreal, Nashville, New Orleans, New York, Niagara Falls, Oklahoma City, Ottawa, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland, Reno, Salt Lake City, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Fe, Seattle, St. Louis, Tampa, Toronto, Tucson, Vancouver, Washington.

☆ SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA
Acapulco, Bogotá, Brasilia, Buenos Aires, Cancún, Cartagena, Cuzco, Havana, La Paz, Lima, Mexico City, Monterrey, Montevideo, Panamá, Quito, Recife, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, San Jose, Santiago, Santo Domingo, Sao Paulo.

☆ EUROPE
Amsterdam, Antwerp, Athens, Barcelona, Berlin, Bruges, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Capri, Copenhagen, Dresden, Dublin, Dubrovnik, Edinburgh, Florence, Helsinki, Ibiza, Kiev, Kos, Krakow, Lisbon, London, Lyon, Madeira, Madrid, Mallorca, Milan, Moscow, Munich, Oslo, Paris, Prague, Rome, Rotterdam, Salzburg, Sicily, St.Petersburg, Stockholm, Tallinn, Valencia, Venice, Vienna, Warsaw, Zurich.

☆ ASIA
Abu Dhabi, Bali, Bangkok, Beijing, Beirut, Busan, Calcutta, Dhaka, Dubai, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Jakarta, Jerusalem, Macau, Manila, Mumbai, New Delhi, Osaka, Pattaya, Phnom Penh, Sapporo, Seoul, Shanghai, Siem Reap, Singapore, Taipei, Tbilisi, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Yerevan.

☆ AUSTRALIA AND OCEANIA
Adelaide, Auckland, Brisbane, Fiji, Hawaii, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney, Wellington.

☆ AFRICA
Addis Ababa, Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, Mauritius, Mombasa, Nairobi, Pretoria, Réunion, Seychelles, Tenerife, Windhoek, Zanzibar.

...and many more!

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