Travelpro, Atlantic Luggage and Austin House Present the 2013 Fathers Day Gift Guide [PRESS RELEASE]
May 15, 2013 by Scott Applebee · Leave a Comment
The Perfect Travel Gift Ideas for Fathers Day
Boca Raton, Fla., – May 10, 2013 – Travelpro, Atlantic Luggage, and Austin House are proud to announce their 2013 Fathers Day Gift Guide. Make this an unforgettable Fathers Day with a gift from their expansive lines of luggage and travel accessories, designed to suit the needs of the business and leisure traveler.
The Travelpro Crew 9 Checkpoint Friendly Business Brief and Business Backpack are perfect for Dads who travel on business and want highly organized convenience. Both items feature multiple pockets, a padded laptop sleeve and a convenient business organizer to store all that a father needs for everyday use at the office or for business travel. Additionally, the Crew 9 Business Brief includes an adjustable, non-slip shoulder strap for maximum comfort when traveling. The Travelpro Platinum Magna Carry-on Rolling Garment Bag is also an excellent gift for Fathers Day. It is ideal for a two-three day business trip or a weekend getaway, featuring a deluxe wardrobe system with a padded foam bar that keeps clothes wrinkle-free during travel. This Platinum Magna Carry-on is part of Travelpro’s 2013 TGA Innovation Award winning Platinum Magna Collection. The award is an acknowledgment of the cutting edge consumer research that served as a foundation for the design of the line.
“This year’s Gift Guide provides high quality luggage along with practical, inexpensive travel accessories that are perfect gifts for fathers who travel for business or leisure,” said Scott Applebee, Vice President of Marketing for the Travelpro family of brands.
Make family travel effortless and stress free this Fathers Day with the Atlantic Compass Unite 21″ Expandable Spinner. Featuring the revolutionary Link2Go system, two pieces of luggage can connect back to back with Velcro straps so you can easily roll two pieces with one hand. The Link2Go feature is ideal for Dad when he is travelling with the family. Additionally, customers can receive a $15 mail-in rebate when purchasing two Atlantic Compass Unite Spinner models and a $30 mail-in rebate when purchasing three Atlantic Compass Unite Spinner models. The collection is available in stylish Cobalt Blue and Black fabric colors
Traveling can be hassle free with the Austin House Universal Adapter with Dual USB. This practical device is compatible with power outlets in over 175 different countries and lets you power or recharge devices such as cell phones, laptops, tablets, etc. Another great gift for Dad is the new Austin House Digital Stereo Earphones, featuring a lightweight ear bud design that blocks background noise while delivering great sound. Fathers can save up to 75% of their packing space by using the Austin Houses Compact Compression Bags. No vacuums are required, simply insert items into the bag, zip the lock and roll to force the air out the bag.
About Austin House
Austin House started in 1974 to make travel as safe, comfortable and hassle-free as possible. Today, the strength of Austin House is its vast selection of travel essentials and clever ideas, including safety locks, travel clocks, luggage straps, luggage tags, passport and document holders, personal security, comfort and care items, leather goods, adapters and converters and electronics accessories. A one-stop shop for travel accessories, Austin House is the essential resource for the serious traveler.
Visit the Austin House website for a full list of the latest products and retail locations.
About Atlantic Brand Luggage
Since 1919, the Atlantic brand has been synonymous with affordable, value-added and lightweight luggage. As a market leader in the lightweight luggage segment, including neatly designed uprights and spinners to trendy and smart garment bags and totes, all Atlantic branded luggage is of superior quality and durability. Ideal for family travel, Atlantic luggage is part of the Travelpro family of brands.
Please visit our website at AtlanticLuggage.com for a list of the latest products available for purchase and the nearest retail locations.
About Travelpro
For over twenty five years, Travelpro International has prided itself on design innovation and durability in crafting the highest quality luggage for travelers worldwide. Since transforming the ease of modern day travel with The Original Rollaboard wheeled luggage, Travelpro has been the brand of choice for flight crews and frequent travelers worldwide. Travelpro is dedicated to building a lifelong relationship with its customers by consistently understanding and exceeding their needs. The company offers a variety of innovative, high-quality luggage collections and computer briefs; each aimed at a specific user lifestyle and rigorously tested. Travelpro was the winner of the prestigious Product Innovation Award at the 2013 Travel Goods Association Show for the Platinum Magna Luggage Collection.
Please visit the Travelpro website for a full list of the latest products and retail locations. You can also find us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter at @TravelproIntl.
Packing for 60 Days in a Rollaboard
May 14, 2013 by Scott Applebee · Leave a Comment
What if we told you that you could pack for eight weeks in just one carry-on bag? Sounds crazy, right? We thought that idea was crazy too, until we saw the video below created by John Holloway, owner of a travel outfitters store and manager of PackingLight.com. In the eight-minute video — which is worth watching in its entirety — Holloway demonstrates how to pack an entire rack of clothes into a carry-on.
It’s called the bundle method, and it’s a little hard to explain, but the video explains it perfectly. The idea is that you’re creating a bundle of your clothes, softly folded together, and laid flat. Using a layering and folding (but not creasing) process, Holloway was able to pack an entire rack of clothes into one rollaboard bag, toiletries and all! And he swears that when you unpack at your hotel, your clothes will be unwrinkled. It may seem too good to be true, but Holloway makes it look effortless.
We first heard about Holloway’s packing method through Christopher Penn, an expert in technology, marketing, and social media, and a frequent traveler himself.
Penn shared a couple videos of Holloway’s on his blog and he shared that using the Holloway packing procedure, he was able to pack a week’s worth of clothes in a carry-on with almost no ironing needed when he arrived at his destination.
Packinglight.com is a great resource for more tips on — what else? — packing light. On the site you can shop for wrinkle-free clothes, purchase travel accessories, and gather even more traveling advice.
Next time you have to pack for an extended trip, watch Holloway’s video and follow the packing method. Then after you arrive at your hotel and unpack your bag, come back to this blog and let us know if it worked for you.
Do you have any other insight into packing light? Share your thoughts in the comments.
United Airlines Will Bring Your Bags to Your Hotel or Home
April 25, 2013 by Scott Applebee · Leave a Comment
There has been plenty of buzz this year about how airlines and airports are modernizing their service to customers by offering free wifi, customer service via social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and upscale shopping experiences. Now, United Airlines is partnering with BagsVIP to offer a luggage delivery service for domestic flights.
For a starting price of $30 per bag, United/BagsVIP will deliver your bags to a hotel, business, or residential address, seven days a week, including holidays. If your arrival destination is within 40 miles from the airport, the service says you will receive your bags within 4 hours of your flight arrival.
Luggage (Photo credit: JohnathanLobel)
Even though many of us don’t mind waiting around for a bag or two after a flight, United’s luggage delivery service could certainly come in handy for many of us. A business traveler on a tight schedule, a family with a lot of bags and kids to corral, or an elderly person traveling alone could all easily find value from this luggage delivery service.
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Atlantic Compass 2 25″ Bag Rated a “Best Buy” by Consumer Digest
April 17, 2013 by Scott Applebee · Leave a Comment
We were very excited when the prestigious Consumer Digest magazine designated our Atlantic Compass 2 25” bag as a “Best Buy” in the economy class.
Atlantic Compass 2 25 inch rolling suiter
A “Best Buy” product offers the best value for a given amount of money. In addition, the publication measures each product in a number of factors including ease-of-use, range of features, best styling, lowest maintenance need, best warranty, etc.
Here’s the writeup from their issue:
The Compass 2 25 is the least expensive 25-inch check-through model that we evaluated that has four wheels, which makes this model easier to maneuver than are models that have two wheels. Although this model’s polyester shell is typical among models that are in this price range, its capability to expand by 2-1/2 inches is better than that of any other economy wheeled check-through upright.
New Travelpro Platinum Magna Video
April 15, 2013 by Scott Applebee · Leave a Comment
We’re very proud to be able to show you the video for the new Travelpro Platinum Magna spinner bag collection. It contains several patent-pending new features and innovations, making this a smooth-rolling, comfortable-to-use, and lightweight bag.
You can find out more about our new Platinum Magna collection on our website.
Travelpro Teams Up With The Global Scavenger Hunt As An Official Travel Gear Supplier of The World’s Greatest Travelers (RELEASE)
April 3, 2013 by Scott Applebee · Leave a Comment
[Santa Monica, Calif.]—Adventure travel gear maker Travelpro, is teaming up with The Global Scavenger Hunt to outfit this year’s participants who will be competing in the 9th annual around-the-world travel adventure competition that will crown The World’s Greatest Travelers.
The Global Scavenger Hunt’s event will take place over 23 days between April 12th and May 4th, 2013. Teams of two will be competing in this annual travel adventure and cultural immersion that will travel from Los Angeles to Toronto—the long way! Intrepid Indiana Jone’s (and Jane’s) will be taking A Blind Date With The World, visiting Lost Cities, participating in exotic local customs, ferreting out bizarre clues, tasting uncommon delicacies, and riding every sort of four-legged beast available, while conducting cultural-oriented scavenges on four continents and at least 10 countries. The intrepid adventurers will not know any of their impending destinations and also be limited to public transportation in those exotic locales.
“When you read Travelpro’s mission statement and meet its employees, you immediately understand the depth of their passion for adventure travel. Their commitment to product excellence and empowering others to achieve their adventure travel dreams is also what The Global Scavenger Hunt’s travel adventure is all about: keep things simple and help others achieve things they would not normally do,” says William Chalmers, author and 1Event Director. “We are proud to welcome aboard Travelpro as one of the Official Suppliers of The World’s Greatest Travelers.”
For over twenty five years, Travelpro International has prided itself on design innovation and durability in crafting the highest quality luggage for travelers worldwide. Since transforming the ease of modern day travel with The Original Rollaboard wheeled luggage, Travelpro has been the brand of choice for flight crews and frequent travelers worldwide. Travelpro is dedicated to building a lifelong relationship with its customers by consistently understanding and exceeding their needs. The winners of The Global Scavenger Hunt travel adventure competition will have battle tested the limits of their Travelpro gear by traveling over 40,000 kilometers in mountains, deserts, urban and rural landscapes alike.
The travel adventure competition is also the platform for raising a $1 million goal for international humanitarian organizations including: KIVA, Partners in Health, Doctors Without Borders, CARE, UNICEF, and International Special Olympics among others.
Armchair travelers and adventurers alike can follow the around the world travel GlobalScavengerHunt.com competition by visiting the official daily blog starting April 12th.
Travelpro, Atlantic Luggage, Austin House’s 2013 Mother’s Day Gift Guide [RELEASE]
March 20, 2013 by Scott Applebee · Leave a Comment
Celebrate Mother’s Day with the Perfect Travel Gifts
Travelpro, Atlantic Luggage, and Austin House are proud to announce their “2013 Mother’s Day Gift Guide.” Make this an unforgettable Mother’s Day with a gift from their expansive lines of luggage and travel accessories, designed to suit the needs of the female traveler.
Surprise her with Travelpro’s new award-winning, Platinum Magna 21″ Expandable Spinner. Thanks to its five new patent-pending technologies, the Platinum Magna luggage collection won the prestigious New Product Innovation Award at the 2013 Travel Goods Association Show.
This groundbreaking collection of luxury 8-wheel Spinner and Rollaboard luggage is incredibly lightweight and elegant. Ideal for mothers who love to travel, the Platinum Magna’s Duraframe framing system lessens luggage weight significantly while providing strong protection from the impacts of travel. Additionally, it always rolls straight with the patent-pending MagnaTrac 8- wheel Spinner system that includes self-aligning magnetic wheels that eliminate “drifting” that is common when wheeling other Spinner luggage. Travelpro’s Platinum Magna Rolling Tote is also an excellent gift for Mother’s Day. It is perfect for an overnight business trip and features a built-in business organizer and padded laptop or tablet sleeve. Platinum Magna is available in sienna and black fabric colors.
“This year’s Gift Guide offers a variety of fashionable luggage and travel accessories that are ideal for traveling mothers and the budgets of their loved ones” said Scott Applebee, Vice President of Marketing for the Travelpro family of brands.
Make family traveling effortless and stress free this Mother’s Day with Atlantic Luggage’s Compass Unite 25″ Expandable Spinner. Featuring the revolutionary Link2Go system, two pieces of luggage can connect back to back with Velcro straps so you can easily roll two pieces with one hand.
Additionally, customers can receive a $15 mail-in rebate when purchasing two Atlantic Compass Unite Spinner models and a $30 mail-in rebate when purchasing three Atlantic Compass Unite Spinner models. The collection is available in beautiful cobalt blue and black.
For ladies with a flair for fashion and function, Atlantic Luggage offers the stylish Odyssey Lite Ladies tote. With its padded laptop or tablet sleeve and business organizer, it is an elegant and lightweight carry-on companion, perfect for short trips or even everyday use to the gym or office.
For adventurous mothers and grandmothers, the National Geographic Balboa 21″ Hardside Spinner Luggage Collection, features a variety of beautiful animal images from National Geographic’s award-winning image library. Lightweight and loaded with all the conveniences that modern travelers need, luggage will make every journey easier. In addition, every purchase made will help support vital National Geographic exploration, conservation, research and education programs.
Other interesting Mother’s Day gifts include attractive and cost effective travel accessories from Austin House. Traveling can be hassle free with the Austin House Travel Comfort Set, which includes an eye mask, inflatable pillow and soft 48″ x 32″ fleece blanket.
Austin House helps travelers save money by preventing airline overweight luggage fees with the convenient Digital Luggage Scale. Simply place the luggage onto the scale’s hook and use its ergonomic design to lift and measure up to 110 pounds of luggage weight. Fashionable luggage tags are also available in various fun designs, including the trendy Handbag, Shoe, Flip-flop, and Beach Hat designs. These colorful tags make it easy to spot mom’s luggage on the baggage carousel.
About Austin House
Austin House started in 1974 to make travel as safe, comfortable and hassle-free as possible. Today, the strength of Austin House is its vast selection of travel essentials and clever ideas, including safety locks, travel clocks, luggage straps, luggage tags, passport and document holders, personal security, comfort and care items, leather goods, adapters and converters and electronics accessories. A one-stop shop for travel accessories, Austin House is the essential resource for the serious traveler.
Please visit the Austin House website for a full list of the latest products and retail locations.
About Atlantic Brand Luggage
Since 1919, the Atlantic brand has been synonymous with affordable, value-added and lightweight luggage. As a market leader in the lightweight luggage segment, including neatly designed uprights and spinners to trendy and smart garment bags and totes, all Atlantic branded luggage is of superior quality and durability. Whether for business or pleasure, travel is easier with Atlantic luggage, now part of the Travelpro family of brands.
Please visit the Atlantic Luggage website for a list of the latest products available for purchase and the nearest retail locations.
About Travelpro
For over twenty five years, Travelpro International has prided itself on design innovation and durability in crafting the highest quality luggage for travelers worldwide. Since transforming the ease of modern day travel with The Original Rollaboard wheeled luggage, Travelpro has been the brand of choice for flight crews and frequent travelers worldwide. Travelpro is dedicated to building a lifelong relationship with its customers by consistently understanding and exceeding their needs. The company offers a variety of innovative, high-quality luggage collections and computer briefs; each aimed at a specific user lifestyle and rigorously tested. Travelpro was the winner of the prestigious Product Innovation Award at the 2013 Travel Goods Association Show for the Platinum Magna Luggage Collection.
You can visit the Travelpro website for a full list of the latest products and retail locations. Like us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter at @TravelproIntl.
Travelpro Receives First Place in Travel Goods Assocation Product Innovation Awards
March 1, 2013 by Scott Applebee · 2 Comments
We were very excited at Travelpro to receive some wonderful news at the Travel Goods Association trade show today: Our Platinum Magna 8-wheel Expandable Spinner received First Place in the TGA’s Product Innovation Awards.
The Platinum Magna Luggage collection at the 2013 Travel Goods Association show.
This year our designers incorporated four new patent-pending technologies on the the Platinum Magna 8-wheel Expandable Spinner: the MagnaTrac, the 8-wheel Spinner system, the Duraframe framing system, the PowerScope extension handle and the Contour handle grip. The entire Platinum 8 collection is backed by the Travelpro “Worry-Free” lifetime warranty. The end result is that the bag is easier to move, more comfortable to grip, and we’ve eliminated the drifting effect typically seen in other spinner-wheel bags
We were very pleased to bring home this award, because we incorporated many of the features based on the consumer feedback we have received for each of our collections. It’s comments, tweets, Facebook status updates, and even blog comments that have helped us continually strive to make the perfect bag.
This year, we took one step closer to it, and with your help, and thanks to the hard work and innovation of our design staff, we hope to do this again next year.
For more information on our different Travelpro bags and lines, be sure to visit the Travelpro website.
Confessions of an Airline Baggage “Thrower”
February 5, 2013 by Matt Sill · Leave a Comment
Airline baggage handlers get a bad rap sometimes. We never hear about the bags that make it safely to their destinations, 
unscathed, dry, and smelling like roses. We hear about the irreparably damaged guitars, the priceless belongings lost, and the rest of the horror stories in the life of travelers’ luggage.
But it’s a tough job, and somebody’s got to do it. Which is why we were happy to see an article from Fox News about what goes on behind those flapping plastic curtains at the airport. They interviewed a baggage handler for some real talk about what his everyday life looks like, and there were some surprising revelations.
The on-the-job environment is crazy: fast paced, loud, occasionally wet, snowy, freezing-cold or swelteringly hot, and often quite dangerous. Two words: jet engines. There are plenty of downsides to working as a baggage handler, but the biggest upside is, of course, the travel perks. Buddy passes and free standby flights are almost always part of the gig.
Now, on to your bags.
First of all: The logistics of flying are tough — there are so many moving parts in the process that it’s hard for everything to go smoothly — and as the handler says, airlines are only making money when they’re actually in the air.
If your connecting flight comes in late, for example, handlers have to rush to get your bag to the next leg. There isn’t much time to be delicate with bags and do their jobs with finesse.
Another eye-opener: It’s often not baggage handlers’ fault that bags are damaged. Loose pieces of material can get caught in conveyor belts and in turn damage straps, handles, zippers and more. And if you’ve bought a cheap bag with a handle that’s glued or sewn on — or if you’ve overloaded your checked bag — it can come right off.
Your bag may be lost or not make it to your destination for a lot of reasons, again — not always the handlers’ fault. If someone has marked the wrong airport code on your bag or it literally falls off the cart during an especially busy time, you may not see it for a while. And while handlers try to scan every bag that goes onto a plane, the scanners don’t always work the way they should.
We at Travelpro were happy to see that baggage handlers endorse four-wheel “spinner” bags — like our Crew 9 or Maxlite 2 Spinner bags — because they don’t have to throw them. They just glide right on.
What other airline employees’ jobs are you curious about? Would you love to be a fly on the wall somewhere in an airport? Tell us who and where in the comments.
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Travelpro Announces Partnership with Women’s Ski Jumping USA [PRESS RELEASE]
January 23, 2013 by Scott Applebee · 1 Comment
Travelpro, the inventor of Rollaboard luggage and a leader in innovative, high quality luggage design, is proud to announce its partnership with Women’s Ski Jumping USA (WSJ-USA) as the team’s national luggage sponsor throughout the 2013 World Cup season and the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.
“We are honored to be the luggage sponsor of the U.S. Women’s Ski Jumping Team during the 2013 World Cup and the 2014 Winter Olympics,” said Scott Applebee, Vice President of Marketing for Travelpro brand luggage. “It is an important part of our corporate social responsibility to support U.S.A. athletes during these global events.”
Travelpro provided the WSJ-USA team with (15) 30″ Rolling Duffels from its Maxlite 2 Collection. It will also provide two 2-piece luggage sets for WSJ-USA auctions and fundraisers. The Travelpro Maxlite 2 Collection offers lightweight durability, functionality and affordability for the frequent business and leisure traveler. The collection includes a wide array of innovative features that ease the hassles of travel.
Travelpro continues its history of philanthropical support to local, national and international charities and organizations with in-kind donations. Some of the charities include: Toys for Tots; Design Architecture Senior High; Airline Ambassadors International; St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital; American Cancer Society; Kids in Distress; American Red Cross; American Diabetes Association; Miami Children’s Hospital; Tri-County Humane Society; C.R.O.S Ministries; Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital; National Breast Cancer Research Center; Women in Distress of Broward County; Self Help Africa; Brooke Jackman Foundation; Variety, the Children’s Charity though Paramount Pictures and Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Recently, it also announced a unique partnership with National Geographic, one of the world’s largest scientific and educational nonprofit organizations, as its luggage and travel gear licensee for the National Geographic and National Geographic Explorer brands in North America. National Geographic’s net proceeds support vital exploration, conservation, research, and education programs.
For more information about Women’s Ski Jumping USA and to learn about these elite athletes, please visit www.wsjusa.com or follow them on their Facebook page
About Travelpro
For twenty five years, Travelpro International has prided itself on design innovation and durability in crafting the highest quality luggage for travelers worldwide. Since transforming the ease of modern day travel with The Original Rollaboard wheeled luggage, Travelpro has been the brand of choice for flight crews and frequent travelers worldwide. Travelpro is dedicated to building a lifelong relationship with its customers by consistently understanding and exceeding their needs.
The company offers a variety of innovative, high-quality luggage collections and computer briefs; each aimed at a specific user lifestyle and rigorously tested. Travelpro was the winner of the 2009 and 2010 Leading Edge Award from Executive Travel Magazine for “The Best Carryon Case.” Travelpro is celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the invention of the Rollaboard throughout 2012.
Please visit the Travelpro website for a full list of the latest products and retail locations.
