Apple tips

So, sure: The Apple Card isn't exactly a rewards behemoth.

Good morning from Skift. It’s Friday, April 19. Here’s what you need to know about the business of travel today.

Apple is placing its wireless streaming technology in hotel rooms for the first time in partnership with IHG Hotels & Resorts.

AirTags have proved to be helpful devices for recovering lost baggage, but what happens if the tracker falls out?

When I joined TPG almost two years ago, I had no credit history to speak of — and even less knowledge of credit card rewards.

When winter’s chill was thawed by the blossoming of spring, our family would set off for the long drive from the Oxfordshire downs to our holiday house in Le Marche, central Italy. Cruising through the arable heartlands of Europe, my heart would skip a beat as we neared the totemic slate gradients of the Italian Alps. Snaking over the Brenner Pass, it felt like being spirited to another world: a sky-bright Narnia, as we emerged blinking-eyed into the Dolomites sun on the other side. Stopping in simple, family-run hotels for the night, the breakfasts were a joyful, modest but perfectly formed ode to the Sud Tyrol locale—the creamiest Sterzinger yogurts that we savored with crimson forest-fresh lingonberries, flower-flecked cheese (for breakfast!) draped with silky threads of marjoram honey from their farm. Today, most hip restaurants are ingredient-led, but these these mountain families have been doing it for centuries.

The Capital One Venture X Rewards Credit Card has many travel-related benefits, including up to $300 per cardmember year in statement credits toward travel booked through the Capital One Travel portal and the ability to transfer miles to one of the program's many airline and hotel transfer partners.

Have apps, will travel. We rely on apps for pretty much every facet of life, and when you’re on the road, having a few travel apps queued up can help save stress, time and money, and make your trip so much better in very simple ways.

Take a look around an airport, airplane or hotel, and odds are that you'll see at least a few Apple devices nearby.

Right now, we're seeing Apple AirTags at a discounted price as part of the Amazon Big Spring Sale — with individual AirTags at their lowest price since Black Friday.

Panera Bread is ready to enter 2024. And with it, a new era is starting at Panera this spring.

Forget about seatback screens, tablets or smartphones.

An airline operating only business class services has announced plans to give an Apple Vision Pro to "select passengers" on some of its flights.

Never mind being the city that never sleeps — New York is the city that never stays the same. Whether it’s your first time or your 30th time, you’ll find every district of the Big Apple full of new places to discover. And it’s not just limited to the new restaurants and shops that dot streets from the Bronx to Staten Island — there are vast arts centres, cultural districts and even an entire new landmass, cast off into the Hudson River. Manhattan is the epicentre of some of the most exciting recent developments, and on this one-day itinerary you’ll zoom in on them across a manageable chunk of Midtown and Downtown. Here’s everything you shouldn’t miss on an exploration of New York’s latest and greatest.

On the back of its November acquisition of GamePlanner.AI, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said his company can create a new AI interface, and that it will help transform Airbnb into a “cross-vertical company” like Amazon or Apple.

Sure, you could walk into any wine shop and walk out with a bottle of big-name Champagne. But to show that you really put some thought into the bubbly you are gifting to that special someone, why not choose something unique — and made in the United States? From California to Vermont (and everywhere in-between), wine makers are crafting surprising sparkling wines that are perfect for Valentine’s Day, or honestly every day. Here are a few of my favorites right now.

Chef Atul Kochhar, the first Indian chef to receive a Michelin star in the UK (for Tamarind), has invited some of the most respected chefs from Michelin-starred restaurants across the UK to cook with him in “a Michelin-starred Four-Hands experience” at his Mayfair restaurant, Kanishka. Kanishka opened in 2019, building on Chef Atul Kochhar’s success at making Indian fine dining popular at his Michelin-starred restaurants Benares and Tamarind. The energetic chef has also found time to appear on television programs like Masterchef and Great British Menu and to open seven other restaurants outside London, including last week, a ninety seat restaurant Essence at The Pantiles in Royal Tunbridge Wells.

Full disclosure: after a decade of being a travel writer there are still some things I need to work on. Like putting a spare pair of pants, or even just a toothbrush, in my carry-on baggage.

The Apple Vision Pro can help users explore new places virtually and relive travels from the past. 

Among big-name travel and transportation brands, Expedia Group, Airbnb, Uber and Disney have pulled their advertising off X, formerly known as Twitter.

The search for Christmas gifts is on. Whether you’re looking for stocking fillers or the main event, these gadgets are designed to make travel easier.