App to help travelers speak foreign languages

Natalie Morales, anchor: This morning on day trips, surf the Web to help plan your next trip. With all applications and websites out there, finding the best airline deals or find a good deal on a hotel can be overwhelming. Travel Interests then did all the hard work for us. In their annual guide digital toolbox, they will direct you to the 80 favorites. Nilou Motamed is director of the feature to leisure travel. Nilou, good morning.

Ms. Motamed NILOU (Assistant Travel Leisure Magazine): Hi, Natalie.

MORALES: So that's a lot of research. How did everything work Leisure Travel bottom 80 favorite websites and applications?

Ms. Motamed: You know, our team of new consumer has not slept for about three months. They were – they were all testing of these applications, so that we would not have to. Whether you're looking to book a cheap ticket if you want to save money, save time, what are the applications to use. Because, honestly, there are so many out there, how do you know which one is best? Especially when you're spending money on them.

MORALES: Right. Not all recommendations made by the way, are on the Web. They may – or applications, as you mentioned.

Ms. Motamed: Some of them are applications, some of them are websites. Then – and some are both. So there are little icons that – to make it easier.

LEGAL: Making life easier. So we'll cut to the chase. Simplify your life, for example, if you want to book a plane ticket. When you buy the ticket, as you know, can really be a difference in where – if you end up going or not. And to help make your decision in how you pay for it, you recommend bing.com.

Ms. Motamed: Bing.com is great because they are a predictor of rates. Now many of us sitting there in front of the Internet and say, "When should I buy? Should I buy now? Is it going down? Is it going up? "And there's this moment of anguish. Well, with this rate predictor, which uses algorithms and historical data, there is much less of this anxiety, I really like. So I go to Bing absolutely right to understand – I mean, now that people are looking for in their vacation trips. It's kind of hard to believe that we went directly from summer all the way to vacation. But if you want to decide where – how, when to book – that the holiday travel, Bing is the way to go.

MORALES: Well, it's a fantastic application. Good to know. Now if you compare to know which airline is cheapest, for example, or you know, to get to your destination faster, Recreation Hipmunk Travel is the first choice. I've never heard of Hipmunk. Tell me about it.

Ms. Motamed: Hipmunk is a new one.

MORALES: Yeah.

Ms. Motamed: So we found something we really like with Hipmunk, which is that it is very intuitive and the design is very minimal, so it is very natural to look at and understand what you want. If you are looking for based on time, if you are looking for based on money, you can do. There is also a fun class, which is agony.

MORALES: Agony?

Ms. Motamed: Agony is what you want the least. What is the stops, quantity, cost and amount of time it will take you. So you want to …

MORALES: Less agony.

Ms. Motamed: Less agony, best when we travel.

MORALES: All right. More travel, less agony. OK, now there are many applications and many websites out there that help you track your airline or find out how your flight is made. But FlightTrack helps you if you are, for example, trying to see if your flight is delayed.

Ms. Motamed: Well, flight delays make us all crazy. Especially if you have a connection, especially if you are looking for someone at the airport. FlightTrack and is our absolute favorite of all the different applications, $ 4.99 well spent on this application in the iTunes Store. What's great is not only is it – is it useful, it has information on when your flight is leaving, if your incoming flight is delayed, where your luggage will be landing when you land. But he – I mean, it is very beautiful, so satellite imagery, if you're on the plane and can actually see the progress of the flight.

MORALES: Progression of your flight?

Ms. Motamed: And if for some reason, you have a delay, they are actually – directly by the application, you can call the airline to see what other airlines – other flights, because you see the flight right there and you can say, "I want the flight."

MORALES: All right.

Ms. Motamed: So you would beat the lines.

MORALES: You just saved me on my next delay. Thank you.

Ms. Motamed: $ 4.99 ….

MORALES: Yes. OK, and then we all know Priceline, of course. And it is still the most recommended when it comes to booking a hotel room by Leisure Travel.

Ms. Motamed: Who knew 13 years ago, when Priceline began, no one would beat them at their own game? It is always our number one tender favorite site Leisure Travel. You go online, you decide you want to go, the quality of the hotel you want, and you put in a bid, and either it is accepted, or if it does not get accepted, you must wait 24 hours before you can bid again. Of course, there is now a thriving industry in Web sites that tell you how to use Priceline.

MORALES: Right.

Ms. Motamed: So one of them is called, BestBetterBidder dot – BetterBidding.com. So you can go there for advice.

MORALES: To say that three times fast.

Ms. Motamed: I know. For advice. But, incredibly, you can get up to 40 percent off lower rates on the Internet if you – if you book through Priceline. So it's worth.

MORALES: Wow. Hey, good. Very good.

Ms. Motamed: What is worth learning to use it.

MORALES: It's worth learning how to use it. All right. Next is – now it's one you all need to know. Once you arrive at your destination, you want to find the best places to eat. So you have an application for the best food in your destination. How does it work?

Ms. Motamed: Yes, food is called spotting. And the reason we love the power is Spotting we all wish we had a friend in the destination that could give us their favorites.

MORALES: Right.

Ms. Motamed: And that's the equivalent of that. And what is cool about this app is that it is location based, meaning that wherever your phone, wherever you are, that's where it will serve you the best dishes and the best good food around you. Now they are obsessive foodies who take pictures of the food they like, recommend restaurants they like, and therefore – if you are not sure yet whether you can trust those people, because you do not know, the likes of Mario Batali, Anthony Bourdain are also guides on the Web – on this app. Then you'll get …

MORALES: So you get it directly from gourmets.

Ms. Motamed: Exactly.

MORALES: Men who know, and women too. Now the next is, if you then want to pay for your meal, and I think that is – I think all of us cringe. How do we have the edge, especially in other countries? You do not really know what the going rate is. Well, Globetrotter is, in fact – I think, in fact, what is the name of …

Ms. Motamed: Globetipping.

MORALES: Globetipping, in fact, is the Web site and application.

Ms. Motamed: They try to be cute, but perhaps almost too cute to a certain – so if you can …

MORALES: Yeah. Globetipping. No, it’s good, it’s good. We like it.

Ms. Motamed: So this app is 99 cents, which is great is when you are jet lag and get off the plane and you take a taxi in Paris, and you do not know how to tip . You can either end up feeling guilty that you are on tilt or shift more …

MORALES: Or tipping over, which I did several times.

Ms. Motamed: Or more tipping, which makes you crazy. And so it is fantastic in that it has advice for about 200 different countries. And I love it also because it has a tip calculator, so if you're home and you're having dinner with a bunch of friends, and you do not want to deal with math, this calculator tip can even help you at home. So you do not need to be abroad to use this feature.

MORALES: And you do not need to be a math genius, we love. Nilou Motamed, thank you.

Ms. Motamed: Thank you.

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