Price Navigation + Stay Local = Easy Vacation Planning
BestTravelDeals.net Unveils New Tools To Help Travelers Navigate By Price And By Proximity to Home or Other Location
Schenectady, NY (PRWEB) June 24, 2009 -- Most online travel sites are designed for destination navigation - making it relatively easy to find a hotel or airline tickets if you know where you want to go. But with today's uncertain economy, many travelers don't know where they want to go. According to Forrester Research 20% of leisure travelers look for travel bargains on the Web without a destination in mind. And a Travel Industry Association survey showed 39 million Americans have not yet made their summer travel plans. Price tops the list for choosing where to go. Destination is a secondary factor in the decision making process. Additionally, more Americans are planning long weekends closer to home rather than traveling long distances.
Based on the Travel Industry Association's findings, BestTravelDeals.net has come up with two intuitive travel tools to help travelers enjoy a vacation despite the sharp downturn in the economy.
BestTravelDeals unveiled "Price Navigation" this week. The new tool allows travelers to navigate based on how much money they're willing to spend on vacation. Users get to choose from a list of price ranges and voila! All the bargains in that price range will pop up.
"BestTravelDeals.net is one of the few travel sites that are meeting the challenges of budget conscious travelers in planning and booking a vacation within a specific budget rather than by destination," said Mary Song, founder of BestTravelDeals.net. "Recent Travel Industry Association survey results revealed that overall price, not destination, was the number one factor in choosing where to go on vacation. Most travel sites only offer destination navigation making it challenging to discover travel deals within a certain budget," Song stated.
And for the traveler who prefers to stay close to home, BestTravelDeals.net has introduced "Stay Local ." This tool will automatically detect the user's current location and zero-in on the best travel bargains within a 100, 200 or 300-mile radius.
The site will also give travelers the power to look for travel deals in a specific geographic region around the globe. Users can change their current location to any location in the world to see deals within a 100, 200 or 300-mile radius of their destination. In addition, travelers can choose to go global where the site will search the entire world for travel deals.
"Challenging times are full of opportunity. To stay ahead of the pack we have rapidly responded to solve the needs of travelers. "Stay Local" will help those travelers who prefer to stay closer to home and navigate by price will help those travelers who need to stay within a certain budget. By staying local, travelers can save money while helping their local region and maybe even save jobs that are dependent on tourism. With all the great travel deals out there almost everyone can afford some type of getaway and we want to make it easier for people to find those deals that satisfy a budgetary need" Song concluded.
About BestTravelDeals.net
Propel Media, Inc., launched BestTravelDeals.net in early June 2009 to allow the entire travel community to discover and share travel deals and help the average consumer still enjoy a vacation despite the downturn in the economy. The site's biggest value comes from the fact that it offers small travel providers the ability to share deals with travel consumers at no cost. Among it's offerings are last minute hotel deals, airfare deals, cruises, restaurants, things to do, and more.
About Propel Media.com
Propel Media specializes in helping businesses achieve online success through social media marketing, paid online marketing, online brand building and search engine optimization. Appearing first and prominently in search engine results and generating the right web traffic are critical factors to a successful online business.
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