The ski season is now well and truly upon us as Brits head off in their droves to popular resorts in the Alps and further afield, and the ski and snowboard industries are getting ready for another busy year.

As a means of transporting customers into new and deeply engaging brand and product experiences, there?s simply no other creative technology like Virtual Reality.

When CodeGen first launched in 1999, we entered a travel industry that technology was already steering in a new direction. In the run up to the new millennium, web commerce and metasearch had encouraged an internet-investing frenzy and e-commerce was embedded within everyday life.

The world suddenly became a whole lot smaller.

The days of booking package holidays at a local high street branch are becoming a distant memory for the modern day traveller according to new research released by Zendesk, revealing that travellers have adapted to contemporary technology and now prefer to plan trips themselves online.

Travel, whether it?s for business or pleasure, is not as easy as it used to be. Queues, delays and added security can make for a frustrating journey, but technology is at hand to help ease your journey and also to assist you once you?re there. Martin Bailey, author of The Useful Book of Gadgets shares the best tech to travel with.

Prepaid cards that offer generous commission rates are a crucial part of an agents? business, facilitating an additional revenue stream and bridging profit margins. The value of prepaid cards in consumer travel alone is expected to reach ?36 billion by 2017, indicating significant income potential.