Tag: tourism

Fujitsu Launches Hands-Free Translation System

The Japanese information technology (IT) and communications company Fujitsu recently launched a new speech translation system, notable for the fact that it’s a hands-free...

Latvia’s linguistic journey

Tourism is popular the world over, and Latvia is no exception. Once, at a resort in Whistler, British Columbia, I was surprised to meet a trainer with AirBaltic, the flag-carrying airline of Latvia. The trainer told me that when AirBaltic started flying in 1995, its flight attendants only knew Latvian and Russian.

What the localization of travel websites can tell us about the...

We took a look at a variety of tourism websites to try to get a good feel for the market. We could not consider every tourism website out there, so these are the results for the sample we selected. The results of the study are as follows....

Pura vida, the translation industry way

You may have noticed that MultiLingual published an issue on travel and tourism yesterday. We can learn a lot from travel. In February of...

Travel, tourism, Cuba and the New Year

In 2017 we have a host of new localization subjects to explore. One is travel and tourism. I’ve traveled all over, but after spending...