Israel Travel

The city of Tel Aviv has become a paradise for international business travelers seeking to stay in touch with their home offices while they visit the Holy Land. With the many hotspots and free Wi-Fi services offered at hotels, restaurants, fast food chains and cafés, business travelers can check e-mail almost everywhere, make free transatlantic VoIP calls using Skype, and browse the net to keep abreast of the latest news in their respective fields.

The rapid growth in the number of wireless Internet users around the world has created a need for many people to rely on Wi-Fi connections while traveling. The advantage of using Wi-Fi is that it gives business and leisure travelers added mobility and flexibility.

The ability to access the net from almost everywhere has become a necessity for business travelers who want to keep in touch with colleagues and clients regardless of their physical locations, and who want to check e-mail between meetings. Those equipped with smart-phones and other wireless handheld devices, such as Blackberry, can use them all around Israel without difficulty.

Unlike Europe and the United States where most places charge for internet use, almost all establishments in Israel's business capital offer Internet services free of charge. Take, for example, the Atlas Hotel chain. Atlas grants all its guests free, unlimited broadband access to the Web from the hotel lobby, meeting rooms or from private guest rooms using a Wi-Fi hot spot, which is an area that allows high-speed wireless Internet access.

According to a recent survey, there are more than 200 hotspots available for laptop users in the greater Tel Aviv area alone. The majority of these are offered by hotels, restaurants and coffee shops, but visitors to Israel can also access the net at gas stations, hospitals, parks, universities, shopping malls and other places of interest such as Rabin Square in downtown Tel Aviv.

The number of hot spots in Israel has been doubled in each of the previous few years and is expected to continue growing at that pace in the foreseeable future. Any businessman with a laptop computer can check e-mail almost anywhere without having to pay for it.

Here is a list of hotspots in Tel Aviv that offer free high-speed wireless Internet access:

Hotels
The Atlas Hotel Chain offers unlimited and free of charge Wi-Fi services in six of its hotels in Tel Aviv: Basel Hotel, Tal Hotel, Melody Hotel, City Hotel, Cinema Hotel and Center Hotel. The services is available in the main banquet halls, restaurants, poll area, bar and the in the lobby.

Coffee Bars
Arcaffè chain is not only bringing real Italian espresso bars to Tel Aviv, but also offering high quality wireless access in all its coffee bars around Tel Aviv, from Ramat Aviv Mall in the north of Tel Aviv to Rothschild Boulevard at the finance center of the city. Other large coffee chains – such as Aroma, Cup 'O' Joe, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf and Coffee To Go - offer Wi-Fi services for free. Such services are provided also by many other cafes such as Merelin Monroe Café, Noah Coffee, Coffee Print and others.

Restaurants
Leading American Fast Food Chains McDonald's and Burger King Offer free of charge wireless services in their branches in Tel Aviv. There is Wi-Fi spot in the brasseire restaurant, which is located on Iben Gavirol Street near Rabin Square. Kyoto Salsa Restaurant, and Messa, one of Tel Aviv's most elegant restaurants, are also offering fast internet access.

Public Places
At the trendy Tel Aviv Port there's no need to enter one of the many restaurants or bars in the area. This prime entertainment center features Wi-Fi Internet access, meaning web surfers and businessmen can take a seat on the boardwalk and connect to cyberspace.  Dizengoff Shopping Mall in central Tel Aviv and Ben Gurion InternationalAirport also feature Wi-Fi hotspots.

So don't think twice about taking a laptop on a business trip to Tel Aviv. One is immediately connected upon landing in Israel - not just to the warm, friendly people of the Holy Land, but to all people connected to the net. Home away from home, they call it in the hospitality industry.

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