When April Fool’s Day jokes go wrong – Tripping upsets Golden Gate Bridge officials

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Some have wondered if 2013 was one of the dullest years ever for April Fool’s Day pranks – the novelty wearing off a bit and various public holidays meaning fewer people were around to read them.

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VeryFirstTo launches world’s most expensive vacation package

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VeryFirstTo, a UK luxury products and experiences company, is selling what it calls the world’s most expensive package holiday: a two-year tour of 962 UNESCO World Heritage sites in 157 countries.

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Why has no one done this before? The airplane graveyard as playground [VIDEO]

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What do you get when you combine an airplane graveyard with 40 freestyle runners and parcour-partakers? Perhaps the best travel video ever to be unaffiliated with anyone in the travel industry…

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Speaking of travel tech, could AirGo improve airplane seating?

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It’s not often that the ideas of a undergraduate engineering student at University of Malaysia get featured by ABC News, The Economist, and the Christian Science Monitor.

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Cruel trick in an airport using hidden cameras becomes YouTube hit [VIDEO]

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So we’ve had KLM Surprise at airports, where the Dutch airline doorstepped customers to give them a gift after mining their social media activity.

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Searching on websites – some very uncomfortable truths [VIDEO]

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Is anyone perfect (especially when it comes to travel content) when returning search results to users? Probably not.

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Get inspired by this month’s best travel videos, as picked by Vimeo

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Chicago, Guangzhou, the USA, Hong Kong, Iceland, and International Banana Museum are all stars in the latest crop of top-rated, critically acclaimed short digital films.

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The big secret behind viral videos on YouTube

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Marketers and social media gurus would love to know how to make their wonderfully crafted video clips “go viral”. Finally, here is the answer.

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Expedia tries to sell a $250M-per-night cruise trip [IMAGE]

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No offence to Celebrity Cruises, but if a cruise trip was going to almost $250 million a night presumably passengers would want more than, well, a cabin on the Celebrity Constellation.

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Hello Kitty takes tourists around Tokyo with colorful digital gusto

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Visit Japan, also known as the Japan Toursim Agency, has capitalized on this worldwide obsession in a digitally native way – a Hello Kitty iPhone app. Yes, Hello Kitty is now available for your next visit to Japan!

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