New Travel Industry Business Builder

TripDiary.com is launching a new promotional tool and communications channel for travel agencies, cruise and tour operators and resort property owners, enabling them to easily create travelogue-style online previews of their tours, properties and attractions.

Toronto, ON (PRWEB) September 26, 2006 -- TripDiary.com is launching a new promotional tool and communications channel for travel agencies, cruise and tour operators and resort property owners, enabling them to easily create travelogue-style online previews of their tours, properties and attractions.

"TripDiary can help travel industry marketing professionals with their number one challenge - attracting, retaining and upselling customers," said TripDiary.com co-founder Ian Donen. "They can leverage their existing web sites and digital marketing materials in minutes with blog-like guides that incorporate digital photos, video, voice narration and satellite maps."

TripDiary.com's "Travel Industry Associates Program" (http://www.tripdiary.com/associates) sets out three low-cost plans to suit the varying needs of travel marketers. Example travel industry trip diaries are available (http://www.tripdiary.com/examples), and specific functionality includes:

- fast, user-friendly uploading of individual or groups of digital photos

- property or tour locations can be specified by simply clicking on a map, with the ability to preset zoom levels and map types for viewers

- each location can have descriptive text, multiple automatically thumbnailed photos with captions, video and/or voice narration

- narration can be recorded directly from the web site

- can be used for creating a "blog" for posting news and announcements from your company

- web feeds keeping customers updated whenever you post new information.

"Travel industry marketers can use TripDiary regardless of their technical background, and no software needs to be downloaded," said Donen. "It's also a great communications channel because customers an easily provide comments, testimonials (including pictures and audio) that can be used to attract new business and upsell."

Review comments have been very positive in terms of TripDiary.com's usefulness and ease of use:

"TripDiary.com is a free new Web site that enables travelers to share photographs, videos, notes, comments and maps with friends and family. Users are able to show their exact locations — down to street corners — through a variety of map styles, and privacy settings are available." (Hilary Howard, New York Times Travel)

"Now, after 145 years the postcard's days are numbered, thanks to a new, free, and very cool Web 2.0 alternative. A site called TripDiary.com combines an easy blog service with Google Maps to create the ultimate postcard replacement. The company claims that it takes only 30 seconds to create a trip diary (it took me 12 seconds). After that, it's very easy to add photos and comments and -- the best part -- update a Google Maps object that pinpoints the location of said photos and comments. It's so easy that even an adult can do it." (Mike Elgan, Personaltechpipeline.com)

"It’s no surprise that a company like TripDiary would spring up and give people a really easy place to organize their photos and stories to share with anybody they like.The entire site is pretty straightforward. You basically just upload photos and enter captions. Your TripDiary can be shared exclusively or with anybody out there." (Aneil Weber, Postbubble.com)

For further information, please visit http://www.tripdiary.com.

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