Wireless & tourism

In today's NBR: Wireless a key tourism feature

"According to chipmaker Intel, tourists are increasingly likely to pack notebooks as they head off to exotic locations, a development that's fuelled in part by the proliferation of digital cameras, email and instant messaging.

A new poll run by the company to ferret out the top 10 Asian wireless hotspots showed creative integration of wireless connectivity in some of the region's most attractive and/or busy locations - but it also demonstrated the increasing importance of public area wireless access for tourism."

Well, we already knew that internet service provision in NZ needed improvement, here's yet another reason why...