Facilitating planning of a travel trip through in-depth and unbiased information, MYTravelGuide has worked on over 450,000 restaurants, 90,000 attractions, 60,000 hotels and 30,000 cities in the initial launch phase of its web site called www.MYTravelGui

Published: 23 May 2005

Facilitating planning of a travel trip through in-depth and unbiased information, MYTravelGuide has worked on over 450,000 restaurants, 90,000 attractions, 60,000 hotels and 30,000 cities in the initial launch phase of its web site called www.MYTravelGui

MYTravelGuide, a part of priceline.com and an Internet-based travel research service, claims that in its first few months, the new MYTravelGuide has grown to more than 100,000 visitors a day. The research-related sections on the site include hotels, flights, cars, cruises, vacations, restaurants and attractions.

MYTravelGuide focuses on an information-rich, unbiased environment where travelers and travel pros can share their knowledge and experience, according to Matt Solomon, general manager of web property, MyTravelGuide.com. “The end result is a better-informed consumer who is about to take a much more enjoyable and rewarding trip,” said Solomon.

Apart from database of travel intelligence, MYTravelGuide can connect visitors directly to multiple online travel reservation services. The company is also planning to add new collaborative features and functionality that will enhance the overall trip planning process.

“MyTravelGuide combines guest reviews and ratings with industry leading content from proven travel experts like Mobil Travel Guide and WCities. In addition, MyTravelGuide is international in scope with reviews and information coming from tourists who live in the US, the UK, France, Germany, and other countries throughout the world,” says the company.

The company says travel booking engines on the Web typically are limited to facilitating a transaction, where as MYTravelGuide is full of valuable intelligence on all aspects of a trip, including thousands of hotel and restaurant reviews and descriptions from tourists and travel pros, city guides, destination-specific articles, maps and links to Internet-based travel reservation services.