Leading design and innovation company, Seymourpowell, recently introduced Aircruise, an innovative development in transportation design. This giant, vertical airship is powered by natural energy and designed to carry travellers in style and luxury. Although only a conceptual proposal, the transportation design team at Seymourpowell developed detailed and achievable technical specification for the craft.

Seymourpowell’s Aircruise concept is a new innovative design for a hotel in the sky, allowing for low passenger numbers with huge internal spaces. The Aircruise would offer room for living, dining and relaxing, as well as inspiring public spaces with glass viewing floors and look out points. The conceptual design proposes a bar/lounge zone, four duplex apartments, a penthouse and five smaller apartments.

“We got thinking about proposals based on time being the real luxury in the future, and how you might travel if you had a lot of time. After considering ideas including aircraft interiors and cruise ships, the team settled on developing a new type of airship,” explained Nick Talbot, design director at Seymourpowell.

Aircruise presents an alternative take on the future, suggesting ‘slow is the new fast’, as the giant airship would be able to cruise up to speeds of 100-150km/h. This would allow it to fly from London to New York in 37 hours, or London to Shanghai in 90 hours. Talbot explained, “In a world where speed is an almost universal obsession, the idea of making a leisurely journey in comfort is a welcome contrast.”

Seymourpowell’s innovative design is 265m tall and would be able to reach heights of up to 12,000 feet by the use of hydrogen fuel cells, contained in four “flexible envelopes”. The onboard services would be powered by solar panels as well as being silent and pollution free, which obviously has environmental benefits compared to other forms of transportation.

To learn more about the Aircruise, and other design and innovation projects by Seymourpowell can be found at www.seymourpowell.com

To view and download Seymourpowell’s Transportation Design pamphlet click on the link below:

Seymourpowell Transportation Design

Contact:

Tim Duncan
PR Global, Seymourpowell
Email: tim.duncan@seymourpowell.com
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7386 2369

Leading Icelandic destination management company and travel agency, Iceland Travel, have recently launched their brand new website, offering a wide range of high quality travel services within Iceland, for companies across the world.

The new website features bold headlines and extensive information regarding all the company’s travel services and organised tours, alongside key information focused on Iceland.

Conferences, events, meetings and cruises are amongst the services provided for businesses by Iceland Travel. Their reputation of being the longest running conference organiser in Iceland has been proven by the company’s attention to detail and highly skilled staff. Also founding members of Cruise Iceland, Iceland Travel offer high quality ships all at competitive prices.

Iceland Travel specialises in company incentives and corporate team building exercises within the incredible surroundings of Iceland. Iceland Travel both designs and customises special programs that can include luxury spa accommodation, horse trekking and glacier walks – The company’s previous clients include Coca-Cola, Kodak and American Express.

Iceland Travel is a member of many domestic and international associations; such as, the Icelandic Travel Industry Association, the Iceland Convention and Incentive Bureau, the United States Tour Operators Association (USTOA) and the Japan Association of Travel Agents (JATA).

To view the Iceland Travel website and the services they offer visit www.icelandtravel.is