CHICAGO, Ill. — iExplore, the leading online resource for adventure and experiential travel, announced today that it surpassed the 50 million all-time visitor mark for the first time this month. iExplore.com launched in February 2000 with no traffic and has steadily grown to over 1.3 million visitors per month today. iExplore Founder and CEO, George [...]

WOODCLIFF LAKE, N.J. — Liberty Travel, one of the largest retail travel agencies in the U.S., has selected Perillo Tours (PerilloTours.com), America’s largest escorted tour operator to Italy as its most recent preferred partner for escorted tours. Over the past 64 years, Perillo Tours has brought more than a million Americans to Italy, earning [...]

CHICAGO, Ill. — iExplore announced this week their list of Top Ten Solo Travel Destinations as determined by their Adventure Travel Consultants. At #1 is Serengeti, Tanzania: A wide variety of tours and loads of other travelers make this once in a lifetime sight one of the easiest for solo travelers. At #2 is Sydney, [...]

NEW YORK, N.Y. — CheapOair Wins Hitwise U.S. Top 10 Award for the quarter ending July - September 2008. During this period, CheapOair ranked No. 10 based on market share of visits among all U.S. websites in the Hitwise Travel Agencies industry. The Hitwise U.S. Top 10 Awards Program celebrates the most successful U.S. websites [...]

NEW YORK, N.Y. — Today, Hari World Travels, Inc. (”Hariworld”) launched a new unrivaled web-based airline booking engine allowing travel professionals to book contracted and published air fares to worldwide destinations. The new booking engine provides travel professionals with access to more than 10 million fares to Europe, Asia, Africa, South America and beyond. The [...]

NEW YORK, N.Y. — Today, Fare Buzz has launched a new, dynamic, web-based Vacation Package Booking Tool allowing its members to book vacation packages at net rates to worldwide destinations. This new Vacation Package Program offers air and hotel packages with the option to add cars and other local activities. This new program is available [...]

CHICAGO, Ill. — Travel with a backrest or body pillow? Yes you can… with our Patent-Pending Curvy Transformational Pillow Covers…any bed pillows can be turned into a body pillow or backrest. The Curvy Pillow Company (curvypillows.com), a long established (since 1988) innovative designer of nature-inspired pillow products, now offers a way to turn ordinary, rectangular [...]

BOSTON, Mass. — Navigate Health International, an innovator in international medical assistance services, announces its first service line, Florence Medical Assistance. Florence Medical Assistance is a service providing coordinated access to medical care for internationals living in or visiting Florence, Italy, and the nearby Tuscan countryside. This service, with its high level of in-person client [...]

CHICAGO, Ill. — Joggers and walkers enjoy fresh air with confidence thanks to palm-size route maps. Athletic-Minded Traveler(R) this week announced that Hyatt Hotels & Resorts’ North American properties will provide jogging and fitness-walking guests with palm-size route cards designed by Athletic-Minded Traveler(R), a leading healthy-travel and lifestyle media firm. Hyatt is the first major [...]

CHICAGO, Ill. — iExplore (iExplore.com) announced today their list of Top Ten Hiking and Trekking Vacation Spots Worldwide as determined by their Adventure Travel Consultants. At #1: Annapurna Circuit, Nepal — The 186.5 mile, three week Annapurna circuit gets you up close to some of the highest mountains in the Himalayas, and is considered the [...]

NEW YORK, N.Y. — Buzz Rewards is an appreciation program whereby travel professionals accrue points for every air and hotel booking made with Fare Buzz. Each point translates into $1. Upon accruing 15 points in purchasing power, the member will automatically be sent a co-branded Buzz Rewards Card, pre-loaded with a $15.00 value from American [...]

MIAMI, Fla. — Off the Beaten Strada, a company that creates in-depth tours to Central Italy, announced today its new Touring Tuscany by Car packages by highlighting Seven Sure-bet Reasons You’ll Get More Euro for Your Dollar in Tucked-away Tuscany, as determined by the travel staff of Off the Beaten Strada, along with their Italy [...]

CHICAGO, Ill. — iExplore announced this week their list of Top Ten Summer World Travel Destinations for Cultural Exploration as determined by vacation purchases of its adventure and experiential travelers. 1. The Pyramids, Egypt: The largest man made structures in the world and are one of the most lasting symbols of ancient civilization. 2. Machu [...]

CHICAGO, Ill. — iExplore announced today their list of Top Ten Family Travel Vacation Experiences Worldwide as determined by the iExplore team of world travel experts. Top 10 Family Travel Vacations - Overall, include at #1: Fly fishing, Scotland: If your kids love to fish this is the ideal location where you can fish for [...]

CHICAGO, Ill. — iExplore, Inc. announced this week their list of Top Ten World Safari Experiences as determined by the iExplore team of world travel experts. Number 1: Kruger National Park, South Africa. This is the place to see the Big Five - elephant, white rhino, buffalo, lion and leopard. It is one of the [...]

NEW YORK, N.Y. — CheapOair is proud to announce a partnership with Hotels.com, a trusted name in travel for more than 15 years. Beginning today, travelers can book Hotels.com inventory directly through CheapOair.com and benefit from Hotels.com’s in-depth and current information about each property. “Our alliance with Hotels.com reinforces CheapOair’s commitment to delivering the most [...]

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Despite the seemingly never ending reports of record breaking gas prices, demand for RV rentals has never been higher. With the kids out of school for summer and air travel costing two to three times more than a year ago, many families are scrambling for cost effective vacation alternatives. Renting a [...]

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — With all eyes on rising fuel prices, Allstar Luxury Coaches introduces its new GAS PASS promotion. The price of gas is breaking records and is expected to keep rising, which can make for some pain at the pumps on a summer road trip. In an effort to ease some of that [...]

FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. — CruiseJungle Holdings, operator of several consumer travel web sites today announced the launch of a unique fund raising program that directly benefits veterans and their families. The program, Voyages for Veterans, is designed to raise funds for the well-respected Fisher House veteran’s organization. Fisher House is a 4 star, A+ rated [...]

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — As TV viewers saw on Oprah’s Big Give, it does not take a lot to make a difference in someone’s life. The Cultural Explorer, a San Francisco-based cultural and philanthropic tour company, shows travelers how easy it is to help others as they travel. Beginning travel philanthropists need to know where [...]

NEW YORK, N.Y. — Today, Fare Buzz launched a new, dynamic, web-based hotel booking engine - an industry first - allowing travel professionals to book hotels at net rates in over 100,000 hotel and resort properties. This innovative program offers quality-inspected properties in more than 200 countries, worldwide, with hotels ranging from budget to luxury [...]

SONOMA, Calif. — Discover the secrets of exceptional food and wine during an extravagant full-immersion culinary weekend, hosted by From Farm to Table, a gourmet travel company in Sonoma, Calif. Today, they announced the kick-off of a summer series of culinary and wine tours in a region that is world-renowned for its vineyards and artisan food producers.

WOODCLIFF LAKE, N.J. — Perillo Tours, America’s leader in tourism to Italy since 1945, today announced one of the most aggressive promotions in Italian tourism history - free roundtrip airfare from New York’s JFK to Rome, Bologna and Palermo aboard EuroFly airlines. The flights must be booked by June 1, 2008, in conjunction with select Perillo tours and specific departure dates.

ORLANDO, Fla. — “Da Coach” Mike Ditka, former NFL Coach of the 1985 Super Bowl champs, the Chicago Bears, welcomed guests recently as they arrived at Mike Ditka’s Lighthouse Key Resort & Spa to join him in celebrating the opening of Mike Ditka’s Runaway Beach Club Resort and Lighthouse Key Resort & Spa.

CHICAGO, Ill. and LONDON, England — Chicago-based iExplore formally announced its global expansion plans, with today’s launch of www.iExplore.co.uk, targeting adventure travelers in the U.K. It is the company’s first formal effort outside of the U.S. since the company launched in 1999. iExplore is hoping to become the #1 ranked website for adventure and experiential travel in the U.K. within the next couple years, replicating the position it has held in the U.S. since 2000.

DENVER, Colo. — Can’t get everyone together at the same time? Trying to juggle schedules to organize a family reunion? Help is on the way. Vacation Never Ends, LLC announces the launch of a new web site that brings together family and friends for easy trip and event planning.