Travelers who live on the West Coast of the United States have long bemoaned the lack of direct flights to the Caribbean from international airports in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle. Normally, flying to the Caribbean from the West Coast requires stopovers and plane changes in hubs like Atlanta, New York, Houston, or Miami. Between the time difference and the layovers, flying from the West Coast to the Caribbean can easily take at least a full day—or may even require an overnight stop. With closer warm-weather destinations like Mexico and Hawai‘i beckoning, many travelers in the Pacific time zone simply skip the Caribbean.
The Latest in Go Gear From the 2024 Travel Goods Show
26.03.2024 - 17:49 / travelpulse.com / North America
A rep shows off tech device accessories. (Photo Credit: Lark Gould)
The Travel Goods Show 2024 returned to Las Vegas with a post-COVID bang in March, as industry titans, visionaries, and creators gathered to talk travel gear and showcase the latest goods for creating and maintaining efficiencies to make travel more enterprising.
Fueled by the presence of such industry giants as Briggs & Riley, Eagle Creek, Herschel, Osprey, Naftali, Nomatic, and Db Journey, as well as DYI startups solving problems they have had in their own wanderings, the show this year maintained a larger focus on sustainability overall, where in previous years highlights centered on technology.
“People are being more conscious about sustainability and that’s been a really big shift in the industry over the past five years,” says Travel Goods Association board chair Josh Cross, who started Elios, a portable “smartpower” company he once promoted through the show for power on the go.
“The types of materials, the fabrics, the plastics, the sourcing the manufacturing...it is all becoming centered around sustainability. That’s because, if you look at the industry as a whole, the travel industry is one of the largest in the world and touches about one in 10 occupations worldwide. So sustainability has to be a critical component of what we do with travel goods now."
Db Hugger backpack. (Photo Credit: Lark Gould)
Gone this year were the plethora of luggage trackers, although CUBE was present with a new option for fool-proof tracking through a new subscription model. Gone were the clothing wraps that could layer in a suitcase’s worth of garments to be worn on a plane without added fees. Gone were the jet lag remedies, the embedded luggage chargers, the pop-up portable workstations, the ballooning airline seat converters. Rather, it was a show chastened by three years of lockdown but ready to take on a new breed of traveler—the serious road warrior who wants to get down to the business of traveling.
The following is a bird’s eye view of the latest gear for traveling well and some items to take along just for fun.
This company revolutionized travel by bringing rolling luggage to market. Founded in 1993, it continues to enforce its "Simple as that" lifetime guarantee and is currently known for its one-touch expansion-compression technology that expands and contracts packing space without a zipper fight. The Baseline Essential 22-inch Carry-On Spinner is the latest performer in the line and includes a built-in garment folder to keep clothes pressed and ready to wear. It checks in at $699.
A known force for travel neck pillows and now lumbar pads, Cabeau has come out with an inflatable cushion for the derriere. Easy to inflate and easier to deflate
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