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Press CenterVirtualTourist presents travel gadgets on the NBC TODAY SHOW, one of America's most watched television shows. Next up, VirtualTourist presents new travel gadgets with Kathie Lee Gifford on November 20, 2009. Stay tuned for more! For Press inquiries, please contact the VirtualTourist Team at: pr@virtualtourist.com RECENT KUDOS FOR VT: “VirtualTourist named a Magellan Gold Award winner from Travel Weekly magazine." - Judges included Peter Greenberg, Patricia Schultz (Author of 1,000 Places to See Before You Die), and more... “The most useful site for planning overseas trips - period: www.virtualtourist.com. I've used it for 10+ countries with stellar results." - Tim Ferris, Travel Guru and NY Times Best Selling Author VIRTUALTOURIST is a : TIMES of LONDON 'Best Travel Website' TRAVEL + LEISURE '35 Best Travel Site' YAHOO! 'Most Popular Destination Guide' NEWSWEEK 'Favorite Website' GUARDIAN (UK) 'Site That Changed Our World' TIME 'Recommended Travel Forum' AOL 'Editor's Pick' USA TODAY 'Hot Site' U.S. NEWS 'Best of the Web' Latest Release World’s Top 10 Chocolate Museums For those with a sweet tooth, there is nothing more divine than a great piece of chocolate. Check out our list for the best places to see that glorious candy on display. - October 20, 2009
Forbes.com,; November 4, 2009 "World's Most Unique Places to Visit" Looking for someplace really off the wall for your next vacation? Take a look at some of these really bizarre travel choices! ABCNews.com,; October 19, 2009 "World's Top 10 Chocolate Museums" Take a look at the way ABC jazzed up our release with a report about the chocolate show in Paris! Yum! ABCNews.com; August 7, 2009 “World's Top 10 Overlooked Stunning Buildings” While favorites like the Taj Mahal and the Eiffel Tower get frequent praise for their beauty, these overlooked stunners deserve recognition as well. Today.msnbc.msn.com; June 29, 2009 “World's Top 10 Most Legendary Bars” It airs when most people are having their orange juice, but even the Today Show website couldn't resist telling its audience about our bars list. L.A. Times Blog; May 29, 2009 “World’s Top 10 Best Ceilings” L.A. was buzzing with the news that its observatory was named as one of the world’s best ceilings. Take a look and see what other ceilings made the list. The Independent; April 17, 2009 “Top 10 Most Interesting Place Names” For a really funny and intriguing look at some very out-of-the-ordinary places, take a look at our list of Top 10 Most Interesting Place Names on The Independent.com. ABCNews.com; March 6, 2009 “Top 10 Most Mispronounced Places” Avoid making cultural faux-pas by taking a gander at our list of Top 10 Most Mispronounced Places on ABC.com. MercuryNews.com; February 17, 2009 “See the sights, and studios, in Los Angeles” For some great ideas about what to see in TinselTown, especially if you have kids, check out this article in the MercuryNews. Winston Salem Journal; January 25, 2009 “Cyber Trips - Arty Atlanta: Major exhibitions are good starting places” Who knew Atlanta was such a hot spot for art lovers? From King Tut to the Terra Cotta Army, there’s an endless number of great exhibits. Wall Street Journal; December 16, 2008 “Recession, It Seems, Can Fight City Hall; Relocation Is on Hold” See how VT was included in the controversy over Boston’s City Hall building. Boston Globe; November 21, 2008 “The not-so-ugly truth about City Hall” Not everyone agrees with our top pick for the world’s ugliest building. For a dissenting opinion and some interesting history, read this story! New York Times; May 25, 2008 “Where the Bargains Keep Rolling Along.” For anyone who’s ever thought that a bargain just couldn’t be found in big European cities, this article proves otherwise. East Valley Tribune; May 24, 2008 “Scottsdale on list of best U.S. vacation spots” With the dollar as weak as a wet noodle, travelers are looking for less expensive options that won’t break the bank, but will still keep everybody happy. Kansas City Star; April 21, 2008 “Buddies from Kansas test themselves in race across India” Sports writer Joe Posnanski devotes the front page of the sports section to Giampiero Ambrosi’s VirtualTourist-planned race through India. See why Ambrosi said, “We literally almost died like 20 times every day.” Seattle Times; March 30, 2008 “The best Travel stories carry no ethical baggage” See why Carol Pucci cites VirtualTourist as an “excellent source of travelers' reviews and blogs” Chicago Time Out; February 14-20, 2008 “Find a last-minute travel deal” Columnist John Dugan looks to VirtualTourist to help figure out how to get great travel deals. The Washington Post;; February 3, 2008 “54 Online Travel Sites to Bookmark Now” In a sea of user-generated travel and opinion sites, The Washington Post puts VT on its list of “54 Online Travel Sites to Bookmark Now” PC Magazine; September 19, 2007 “Connected Traveler: Advice from Fellow Travelers” VirtualTourist is featured as a recommended site for travelers ready to go beyond the guidebook to find relevant and more current travel information. New York Times; September 3, 2007 “First Order a Plane Ticket. Then Grumble About Delays.” New travel networking tools on other sites “have far to go before they challenge the category leaders, Yahoo Travel and VirtualTourist.com,” says E-commerce columnist Bob Tedeschi. Transitions Abroad; July/August 2007 “Best of the Web 2007” This publication for those studying, working and living abroad selects VirtualTourist as one of the best travel resources out there for its wealth of useful information and reviews. Florida Times-Union; July 11, 2007 “Best Bets on the Net” VirtualTourist is named a “best bet” for being a “top resource for those wanting to review and/or share real-life travel advice and experiences.” Kansas City Star; June 20, 2007 “Making it big on the Internet” General Manager and Kansas City native Giampiero Ambrosi has helped advance VirtualTourist.com from humble beginnings to its position as a travel-information leader. Associated Press; May 30, 2007 “On the Net: Web Sites to Travel By” VirtualTourist.com is one of the social-networking sites recommended in this article about utilizing the Internet for summer-vacation planning. ABC7 Television; May 9, 2007 “Secrets to Finding a Picture-Perfect Hotel Room” Want a “picture-perfect” getaway? ABC7’s consumer specialist Ric Romero recommends sites, including VirtualTourist, that feature reviews by real travelers with first-hand knowledge. The Seattle Times; April 27, 2007 “Euro-free Europe: Heading east for bargains, old-world charm” VirtualTourist offers “lots of lodging suggestions that I didn’t see in guidebooks,” according to columnist Carol Pucci. New York Times; April 16, 2007 “Information, please: The kindness of travel-minded strangers” Business travelers rely on social-networking sites like VirtualTourist for trustworthy trip advice and valuable information. The Ratings Guy; April 10, 2007 "Great Travel Websites Awards" VirtualTourist.com ranks among the top travel and leisure websites, for its "network of people sharing their knowledge and experience, based on their love of travel." Times of London; March 22, 2007 “People Power” The “fresh and informal” reviews by VirtualTourist’s international members help make the site one of the best for peer-to-peer information. The Guardian (UK); February 18, 2007 “50 Essential Travel Websites” The wealth of travel tips on VirtualTourist.com secured it a place on this list of “essential” sites. Times of London; January 18, 2007 “The 130 Best Travel Websites” VirtualTourist.com makes the “130 Best” list for its unique forums and deals pages, its international community and member meetings. PC Today; December 6, 2006 “Travel Tip of the Day” Its abundance of hard-to-find travel information and its handy do-it-yourself travel guides are just a couple of the features that make VirtualTourist an important resource for travelers. The Guardian (UK); November 5, 2006 “Want to go it alone but not sure how” In a Q&A column, VirtualTourist.com members help a first-time solo traveler plan a journey to South America. New York Times; September 27, 2006 “More Travelers, Still at Home, Meeting Online” Socializing isn’t limited to the online world on VirtualTourist.com. Members regularly meet in person, forming face-to-face friendships during travels and meetings around the world. The Guardian (UK); August 26, 2006 “The Sites That Changed Our World” VirtualTourist.com, with hundreds of thousands of tips by international travelers, is one of the sites that has “made travel agents of us all” in this past decade of internet travel. BBC; December 8, 2005 “This Week, Beat the January Blues” The author offers the “people’s website,” VirtualTourist.com, as one way to beat the winter blahs. The Seattle Times; April 22, 2005 “Looking for a hotel? See what others have to say” Honest opinions by real travelers – tips on VirtualTourist.com can help you prevent an accommodations disaster. Travel and Leisure; March 2005 “Notes from Underground: Which travel blogs are actually worth reading?” VirtualTourist.com ranks among Travel and Leisure’s best picks for practical travel information. The Wall Street Journal; March 21, 2005 “Notes from Nowhere: Travelers are going online to get the real skinny from those who have gone before them” On VirtualTourist.com, travelers appreciate the range of information, and constant updates from real people on the ground. BudgetTravelOnline.com; February 22, 2005 “Five DIY Travel Blog Websites” VirtualTourist is one of the “five best DIY sites,” for its customization options aplenty, space for content from photo albums to maps, and sheer variety of tips. The Washington Post; December 4, 2004 “In Blog We Trust?” Says the author about VirtualTourist.com, “It was only a few clicks from the interactive world map on the home page to a list of more than 1,000 ‘off the beaten track’ restaurants in greater London.” Travel and Leisure, October 2004 “The 35 Best Travel Sites” Bookmark VirtualTourist.com for its “astounding number of posts…on subjects ranging from diving in Oman to bird-watching in Mauritania.” Boston Globe; August 1, 2004 “No Solos if You Use the Net” Through VirtualTourist.com, an American solo traveler finds a local to show her around Edinburgh. Finding friends online has never been easier. Newsweek, April 2004 “Living Like Locals” VirtualTourist.com travelers connect with online buddies around the world for everything “from restaurant recommendations to a bed for the night.” USA Today; October 10, 2003 “Online haunts lead travelers to cross paths” Online VirtualTourist.com travelers find offline community, companionship and even romance. The Globe and Mail; May 2, 2003 “Travel Links: VirtualTourist.com” The author tours VirtualTourist.com, exploring the unique features that make up this site consisting of “a large community of people who have caught the travel bug.” San Francisco Chronicle; December 1, 2002 “Superior Sites on the Web for Deals, Dos and Don’ts” VirtualTourist.com is among the online travel resource sites for which the author is most grateful. Time; April 2, 2002 “Web Crawling” Time Magazine recommends VirtualTourist.com in trip planning. If you see VirtualTourist mentioned in your local paper, please drop a note to let us know: pr@virtualtourist.com
The World's Top 10 Most Legendary Bars From Jack London's favorite haunt to the scene of a famous mob murder, we've made our picks for the world's most legendary watering holes. - June 26, 2009 Top 10 Most Mispronounced Places Nothing can make a traveler feel more like a clueless tourist than mispronouncing the name of a local destination. Check out our picks for the 10 most mispronounced destinations around the world. - March 6, 2009 Top 10 Unusual Stores for Holiday Gifts Online shopping is great but sometimes there's just no substitute for the brick and mortar experience. Check out our picks for the 10 most unusual stores for holiday gifts. - December 19, 2008 Top 10 Ugliest Buildings and Monuments Around the World They say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but these buildings really put that to the test. Check out our picks for the 10 ugliest buildings and monuments around the world. - November 14, 2008 Top 10 Money-Saving Ideas for Travelers Times are tough, but that doesn't mean travel is out of the question. Take a look for great ideas about how to save as you see the world. - November 12, 2008 Top 10 Good Luck Monuments Around the World In these trying times, who couldn’t use a little luck? We’ll tell you the best places to rub, kiss, and pat for a little good fortune. - October 17, 2008 Top 10 Quirky Places to Dance Thanks to reality television, people are putting on their Capezios like never before. For some great suggestions about where to cut a rug, check out our list. - September 5, 2008 VirtualTourist.com Announces the Top Ten Biggest Mistakes Made by Travelers We’ve all done it—forgotten to renew our passports, mixed up time zones, or packed as if we were moving. To learn how to avoid other possible flubs, check out this list! - September 4, 2008 Top 10 Wild Rides for Travelers We're not quite sure how you get insurance on some of these modes of travel, but when a car or even a plane just won’t do, try these alternatives. - August 1, 2008 8 Top Burial Sites and Traditions For those looking to make the afterlife as interesting as real life, we suggest these burial sites and traditions. - July 11, 2008 VirtualTourist.com Announces the Top 10 Great American Spas It’s not easy spending hour after hour posting great tips and forum replies, so we decided to come up with a list of the Top 10 Great American Spas. We show you ten great places to get those knots and kinks worked out so you can come back and keep posting! - June 19, 2008 VirtualTourist.com Announces the Top 10 Most Unusual Places to Stay No, that’s not housekeeping at the door, that’s a giraffe. To find out what we’re talking about, check out our list of the Top 10 Most Unusual Places to Stay. - May 29, 2008 VirtualTourist.com Announces Top 10 Ways to Avoid the Euro If the exchange rate is putting a crimp in your travel plans this year, check out our list of places that will help you avoid breaking the bank. We've got some great ideas to help keep you traveling in spite of the economy. - May 8, 2008 VirtualTourist.com Reaches Millionth Member Mark Did you stay up to watch the counter change? If you did, you know that VirtualTourist has reached its millionth member! To hear more about it, and how you took us there, check out this press release. - April 9, 2008 USC Student Wins VirtualTourist.com's 1,000,000 Mile Giveaway Using Facebook Application Imagine if you had enough frequent flyer miles to go around the world five times! As the winner of our 1,000,000 Mile Giveaway, Michele Skaletzky can wonder no more. Read here to see where she’s planning to go! - January 31, 2008 VT Team Wins ''Race for the Clinically Insane'' in Land of Traffic Fatalities And you think you have a long commute: if you haven’t heard the news, our general manager, Giampiero Ambrosi, and his team recently took top honors in the third annual ''CEAT Classic Autorickshaw Rally''; an event described by organizers as a ''race for the clinically insane.'' Check out the details of G’s death-defying road trip. - January 23, 2008 VirtualTourist.com Announces The Top 10 Quirkiest Places to Spend Christmas Tired of carols? Can’t take one more mall? If you’re craving a non-traditional holiday, check out our list of the 10 Quirkiest Places to Spend Christmas. We promise you won’t be asked to sing a single note!”. - December 20, 2007 VirtualTourist.com Announces 10 Best Ways and Places to Spend Thanksgiving Seen It’s a Wonderful Life one too many times? Feel faint at the thought of floats? From a boat festival in Thailand to an avant-garde church in Dallas, VirtualTourist.com brings you “The 10 Best Ways and Places to Spend Thanksgiving”. - November 14, 2007 VirtualTourist.com to Support New OpenSocial APIs We recently announced that we will be supporting the new OpenSocial APIs launched this month by Google as a fundamental step toward making the web more social more quickly and easily. Check out our press release to see how it will benefit VirtualTourist.com members. - November 8, 2007 VirtualTourist.com Announces 10 Best Places to Celebrate Halloween Can’t wait to get your spook on? From Goblin Valley State Park to Salem, Massachusetts, VirtualTourist.com presents the 10 Best Places to Celebrate Halloween. Read it—if you dare! - October 18, 2007 VirtualTourist Gives Away 1,000,000 Miles Using Facebook Application Mapster How would YOU blow 1,000,000 miles? VirtualTourist has just launched the “1,000,000 Mile Giveaway,” the first sweepstakes that uses a Facebook app as a means of entry. The sweepstakes, in which one lucky winner will win one million frequent-flier miles, celebrates the recently released travel map Mapster. - September 27, 2007 Top 10 Up-and-Coming Travel Destinations Announced by VirtualTourist Check out VirtualTourist's latest list of up-and-coming hotspots, from Valley of Fire State Park near Las Vegas to Guatemala's Lake Atitlán, to research best picks for your fall vacation planning. - September 12, 2007 VirtualTourist Launches Next Generation Travel Map as a Facebook Application VirtualTourist’s interactive travel map has been launched as a Facebook application. Unique and user-friendly, it is the first internet travel map with the synchronization functionality to automatically update across numerous websites when edits are made by the user. - August 23, 2007 Ruffing It: VirtualTourist Reveals Top 10 Pet Friendly Hotels in Urban U.S. VirtualTourist’s list of best pet-friendly U.S. hotels features top-dog accommodations for you and your four-legged sidekick. From designer doggie beds to pet spa treatments, amenities in these hotels promise a doggone good time. - July 25, 2007 Top 10 Up-and-Coming Travel Destinations Announced by VirtualTourist From Washington's Olympic National Park to Mozambique's Tofo Beach, the spots announced by VirtualTourist to be this summer's top emerging travel destinations truly span the globe. - June 14, 2007 VirtualTourist.com's Next Social Extravaganza in Santorini, Greece; Member Meetings Reflect Change in Way People Travel An increasing number of today's travelers seek memorable social experiences on the road rather than just sightseeing opportunities. So it’s no surprise that the largest turnout yet is expected for an upcoming weekend-long VirtualTourist member meeting in Santorini, Greece. - May 10, 2007 Top 10 Up-and-Coming Travel Destinations Announced by VirtualTourist VirtualTourist announces this spring’s top emerging destinations for travelers around the globe, from Capitol Reef National Park, UT, to Mt. Shasta, CA, and Salamanca, Spain, to Sihanoukville, Cambodia. - April 18, 2007 VirtualTourist Announces 10 Wackiest Spring and Summer Festivals Covering the gamut from UFOs to cow-chip throws, VirtualTourist’s list of top 10 wacky spring and summer festivals provides travelers fun and unusual options for trip planning this year. - March 15, 2007 To Croatia, for Love? VirtualTourist.com Releases List of Top 10 Unique Romantic Destinations VirtualTourist, a leader in social-networking travel websites, offers up a list of the season’s most unique romantic getaways, from the paradisical Dubrovnik, Croatia, to Ushuaia, Argentina. - February 1, 2007 VirtualTourist CEO to Speak at EyeForTravel's Travel Distribution Summit North America The CEO and co-founder of VirtualTourist.com will speak at EyeforTravel’s Travel Distribution Summit in Chicago, IL, on the subject of user-generated content and social networking in the online travel space. - September 28, 2006 Fall 2006 Travel Hot Spots and Up-and-Coming Destinations Revealed by the Travel Experts at VirtualTourist.com From New York to Bangkok, Kihei to Reykjavik, VirtualTourist announces this fall’s 20 most popular travel destinations, plus the top 20 up-and-coming locales, based on travelers’ research patterns on VirtualTourist.com. - September 7, 2006 Finding Love on the Web: Online Travel Community VirtualTourist.com Announces Wedding between Two Members Who Met On Its Website VirtualTourist connects travelers in its online community; and through natural progression, these online connections sometimes evolve into real life romance and even marriage. This month, when two individuals who met on VirtualTourist.com walk down the aisle, they will join an ever-growing number of couples that credit VirtualTourist’s social networking with introducing them to their spouse. - September 5, 2006 VirtualTourist Reaches 2.5 Million Photos in Its Database of Travel Reviews and Tips VirtualTourist, an unbiased source of original, user-generated travel content, now features 2.5 million photographs in its database of worldwide travel information. - August 2, 2006 VirtualTourist Releases List of Top 10 Money Saving Tips for Travelers Helping travelers maximize their vacation budgets, the travel experts behind VirtualTourist.com have published a list of 10 tried and true money saving tips for travelers. - July 25, 2006 VirtualTourist.com Unveils Tool that Lets Travelers Build Custom Travel Guides Online travel planning just got easier with the launch of VirtualTourist’s Trip Planner, a tool that allows travelers to create custom travel guides to worldwide destinations. - June 21, 2006 VirtualTourist.com Reveals Summer Travel Hot Spots and Up-and-Coming Destinations From San Francisco to Barcelona, New Orleans to Tamarindo, VirtualTourist anticipates this summer’s 20 most popular travel destinations, plus the 20 most up-and-coming locales, based on travelers’ research patterns on VirtualTourist.com. - June 6, 2006 Online Travel Community Jet Sets to Melbourne, Australia for Big In-Person Meet A delegation of members from the popular Web-based travel community VirtualTourist.com move their online network offline this weekend when they meet in Melbourne for three days of sightseeing and festivities. - May 17, 2006 |
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