Travel + Leisure Names Cruise Critic Top Travel Web Site

Cruise Critic was selected in the vacation planning category, for its outstanding news and cruise reviews coverage in Travel + Leisure Magazines 2007 "25 Best Travel Web Sites."

Pennington, NJ (PRWEB) September 6, 2007 --- Cruise Critic, the worlds leading resource for cruise news and reviews, was named one of Travel + Leisure Magazines 2007 "25 Best Travel Web Sites." Cruise Critic (http://www.cruisecritic.com/) is the only cruise Web site to have won the nomination for two consecutive years. Cruise Critic was selected in the vacation planning category, for its outstanding news and cruise reviews (http://www.cruisecritic.com/reviews/) coverage. This years "25 Best Travel Web Sites" list appears in Travel + Leisure's September 2007 issue, now on newsstands.

Travel + Leisure said about Cruise Critic "Research almost anything about 60 different cruise lines and gather advice on everything ship-related - from buying travel insurance to using onboard slot machines."

"The recognition by Travel + Leisure of Cruise Critic as a top Web site for planning trips is gratifying," says Carolyn Spencer Brown, editor of cruisecritic.com, "particularly because cruises come in so many styles and price ranges. Matching the right cruise to each vacationer requires a bit of homework and we're happy to provide a one-stop-shop for research."

Carolyn Spencer Brown, Editor of Cruise Critic is available for interviews at editor(at)cruisecritic.com.

About Cruise Critic

With approximately five million visitors per year, Cruise Critic is a critically acclaimed interactive community comprised of avid and first-time cruisers who enjoy the fun of planning, researching and sharing their passion for cruising. No other single resource covers the world of cruising as thoroughly as Cruise Critic. Cruise Critic's world-renowned editorial staff offers objective cruise reviews, features, ports of call profiles and destination stories. The Cruise Critic message boards are the most active in the world. Since its launch in 1995, Cruise Critic has been recognized as the most influential cruise site on the Web, and an innovator of consumer-oriented cruise travel news.

Cruise Critic is published by The Independent Traveler, Inc., a subsidiary of TripAdvisor, LLC, which is an operating company of Expedia, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXPE). TripAdvisor® Media Network, operated by TripAdvisor, LLC, attracts nearly 30 million monthly visitors (source: comScore Media Metrix, Digital Calculator Report, July 2007) across eight popular travel brands, TripAdvisor® sites, bookingbuddy.com , cruisecritic.com, independenttraveler.com, seatguru.com®, smartertravel.com, travel-library.com and travelpod.com. TripAdvisor-branded sites make up the largest travel community in the world, with more than 25 million monthly visitors.

Contact:

Carolyn Brown, Editor

editor @ cruisecritic.com

609-730-9155 X17

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