Mobile travel guide: tripwolf for the iPhone

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Posted by admin on June 10, 2009 – 12:20 am
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Avoid roaming charges when you travel: tripwolf.com starts a free world travel guide for the iPhone

Vienna, June 9, 2009: The online social travel guide tripwolf [http://www.tripwolf.com] launches the first iPhone application.

The tripwolf iPhone application [http://www.tripwolf.com/en/page/iphone] allows users to search and download over 400,000 destinations worldwide and combines travel information from professional travel guides such as “Marco Polo” and “Footprint” with the cumulative knowledge of over 18,000 tripwolf members. Read More »

The Online-Travel Guide tripwolf.com is all about the Dolce Vita

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Posted by admin on April 7, 2009 – 2:52 pm
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Vienna/Austria, April 7th 2009. A hotel in Rome, the best ice-cream in Naples or the hippest Club in Milan? That and more is now available on the new Italian version of the online Travel-Guide http://tripwolf.com/it. So far, tripwolf offers over 400.000 travel destinations worldwide and combines up-to-date infos with detailed descriptions for individual travelers- after versions in German, English and French the portal now offers it’s content also in Italian.
Around 600.000 international travel enthusiasts have been using the only nine month old portal to gather information on destinations so far. The info available consists of a combination of professional Travel-Guide content by connaisseurs such as MairDumont (Dumont and Marco Polo-Guides) or the british Footprint publishing with user generated content by travelers and locals in the respective countries. Trip-Gurus, designated travel-specialists by the tripwolf team, are also part of the online-portal and share their know-how with the travel-crowd.

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Online travel guide tripwolf now fully available in french

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Posted by admin on March 19, 2009 – 1:03 pm
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Vienna, March 19 2009. Starting today, Online travel guide tripwolf is also fully available in french at http://www.tripwolf.com/fr. Thus more than 400.000 descriptions of travel destinations are now available in french, after being online in german and english. Since tripwolf’s launch 8 months ago, more than 600.000 travel-enthusiasts not only gather information from high quality editorial travel guide content, which comes from leading partners such as MairDumont (Dumont- and Marco Polo travel guides) or british Footprint Publishing house, but also authentic and up-to-date information from both local travle experts (”trip gurus”) and reviews and additional pieces of information provided by the tripwolf users.

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Footprint Travel Guides and tripwolf Announce Partnership

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Posted by admin on March 12, 2009 – 6:41 pm
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Berlin, March 12th 2009. Today social travel guide tripwolf (http://www.tripwolf.com) announces a partnership with Footprint Books, the publishers of the longest running travel guides in the English market. The first act of the new partnership is integrating Footprint’s Peru Handbook into tripwolf’s web platform and mobile version.

“It is fantastic to see Peru content from our Footprint Handbooks on tripwolf.com and on the beta version of the tripwolf iPhone application”, says Footprint Marketing Manager, Liz Harper. “We looked at various potential partners to make Footprint content available through new channels and tripwolf has clearly convinced us with their innovative approach and unique offerings for users.”

With this partnership, tripwolf.com strengthens its strategy of combining professional editorial travel content with user-generated content from thousands of globetrotters worldwide. On tripwolf.com individual travellers can create their personalized travel guides, based on recommendations from expert “trip gurus,” friends and other travellers.

“Personally, Footprint Handbooks have been my favourite travel guides for years,” says tripwolf CEO Sebastian Heinzel. “On my trips to Peru, India and Vietnam I have been impressed by the breadth and depth of their coverage. I cannot imagine a better English language partner for tripwolf.”

For the German version of its platform, tripwolf entered into a partnership with the MairDumont Group, publishers of the German “Marco Polo” travel guides, last year. tripwolf versions in French, Italian and Spanish will be launched this spring.

Alternative Spring Break 2009

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Posted by admin on February 19, 2009 – 11:56 pm
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May not be MTV but still just as wild- Check out tripwolf’s not to miss places in Africa

New York–February 19, 2009–Spring break has college students booking airplane tickets to warm Caribbean beach destinations like Panama City, the Bahamas and Cancun, Mexico. As fun as relaxing on white sand is, the world offers too much to head to the same location year after year. So this year, plan an alternative spring break — and head over to Africa.

tripwolf, an online social travel guide, has compiled the top “not to miss” locations in Africa as voted by its users. The community spoke, and tripwolf listened.  Here is the best of Africa list they came up with:

1. Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa
2. Royal Palaces of Abomey, Benin
3. Masai Mara, Kenya
4. Stone Town of Zanzibar, Tanzania
5. Djemaa el Fna, Marrakech, Morocco
6. Cape Point, Cape Town, South Africa
7. Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania
8. Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
9. Clifton & Camps Bay Beaches, Cape Town, South Africa
10. Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, Cape Town, South Africa
Some sights, some beaches, some national parks, all alternative ways to make spring break 2009 a trip to remember.  You can find details for all the locations that made the list on the tripwolf site here: http://www.tripwolf.com/en/guide/list/2/Africa?list=nottomiss.

tripwolf Announces Top US Sunset Spots for this Valentine’s Day - With a few surprises in Michigan, Texas and Tennessee

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Posted by admin on January 29, 2009 – 4:39 pm
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January 29, 2009–New York–To celebrate Valentine’s Day this year, social travel guide tripwolf.com has released its top fifteen sunsets to catch in the US. After researching all of North America for romantic sunset spots, tripwolf selected five locations in Florida, four spots in Michigan, three beach-side sunsets in Hawaii, two in Texas and one rooftop view in Tennessee.

tripwolf.com’s Top 15 Romantic Sunsets include:

5 in Florida: Key West, Longboat Key, Siesta Key, Sanibel Island, and South Walton Beach;

4 in Michigan: Petoskey, Ludington, Traverse City, and Oval Beach in Saugatuk;

3 in Hawaii: Papohaku Beach on Molokai, Front Street in Lahaina on Maui, and Mauna Kea Resort in Kamuela on the Big Island;

2 in Texas: Wildcatter Ranch and Resort in Graham and the Congress Avenue Bridge in Austin;

1 in Tennessee: the rooftop view at the Madison Hotel in Memphis.

“Everyone appreciates the beauty of a sunset–be it on the beach or over a cityscape.” says Sebastian Heinzel, tripwolf CEO. “We want to break out of the usual ‘dinner and candy’ and provide ideas for an alternative romantic plan this Valentine’s Day.”

tripwolf users are encouraged to upload photos, share stories and add comments about their romantic Valentine’s Day plans to the site. Details on each of the 15 locations and more are located at http://www.tripwolf.com/en/page/valentine. For more information on tripwolf, visit www.tripwolf.com.

tripwolf Closes Second Funding Round — Despite difficult financial times, Austrian Web 2.0 start-up secures investment

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Posted by admin on January 24, 2009 – 12:32 am
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NEW YORK, NY.  January 22, 2009—Online travel guide tripwolf announces a second round of funding. The MairDumont Group, Europe’s largest publisher of travel information, has invested for the second time in the Vienna-based web 2.0 start-up. By strengthening its commitment to tripwolf, the MairDumont group aims to play a leading role in the digital market as well.

“Travel and mobility online are part of our core business,” says Stephanie Mair-Huydts, Publisher. “Despite the financial crisis, we want to expand our position in the online market. tripwolf is the perfect extension of our current offerings.”

Additionally, renowned German publisher Dieter von Holtzbrinck has signed on as a co-investor. Dieter is confident and enthusiastic about both the tripwolf concept as well as the competent and creative management team.

“We are proud to have the trust of such reputable companies and individuals,” says Sebastian Heinzel, CEO of tripwolf, who is excited by the willingness of investors from the print world to support innovative online business models. “We have big plans for 2009, including site launches in French, Spanish and Italian, and a tripwolf iPhone application.”

tripwolf, a next generation travel guide, launched in June 2008 in German and English. The platform combines professionally created content with user-generated content - reviews, tips, photos and travel blogs – from thousands of travelers all over the world. Currently, the tripwolf community has nearly 15,000 members, including one thousand “trip gurus“ who provide personal travel tips.

Dido and tripwolf Announce a Travel Photography Competition — Win an autographed Dido lithograph on tripwolf

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Posted by admin on December 17, 2008 – 3:26 pm
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Social travel guide tripwolf.com and RCA Label Group announce today the launch of an exclusive photo competition with international multi-million selling artist, Dido, for the grand prize of a signed lithograph of Dido’s newest album Safe Trip Home. The winner will also receive a CD of the album, as will the five runners up. To win, entrants simply post photographs that fall into one of three categories on the competition page, found at http://www.tripwolf.com/en/page/competition/dido.
Submission are now being accepted in the following categories:
* Last photo before heading home from traveling;
* Best travel photo; and,
* Best adventure photo.

“We are thrilled to be working with RCA Label Group to present our users with this wonderful opportunity, and to work with such an acclaimed artist as Dido,” says Sebastian Heinzel, tripwolf CEO. “There is nothing like traveling to make you appreciate home. So this album is especially significant to our community of globetrotters.”

The competition will run for a full month. A combination of tripwolf and RCA representatives will judge the submissions, and the winners will be announced shortly after the closing of the competition on January 15, 2009. Guidelines and rules can be found on the tripwolf competition page http://www.tripwolf.com/en/page/competition/dido.

tripwolf is a collaborative social network where members share travel experiences, give real-time advice and search for both user-generated and professional editorial travel content on the best places to visit.

TRIPWOLF ANNOUNCES TOP NORTH AMERICA DESTINATIONS TO CELEBRATE A CRAZY NEW YEAR’S EVE

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Posted by admin on December 5, 2008 – 3:22 pm
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Social travel guide tripwolf.com has released its top five crazy New Year’s Eve ideas. The site, which has over 13,000 international members, compiled the list after researching all of North America for the more creative ways to celebrate.
www.tripwolf.com’s Top Five alternative ways to spend New Year’s Eve include:
•    Midnight Skydiving at Skydive City (Zephyrhills, FL)
•    Polar Bear Swim at English Bay Beach (Vancouver, B.C. )
•    Midnight Yoga at Bikram Yoga LES (New York City, NY)
•    Sledding at Snow Mountain (Atlanta, Georgia)
•    9-Foot Lollypop Drop (Hummelstown, Pa) and other drops too!

“The best way to start into the new year is doing something you have never done before,” says Sebastian Heinzel, tripwolf CEO. “Our list is for explorers who want an adventure that deviates from the traditional New Year’s Eve party or ball drop.”
tripwolf users are encouraged to upload comments, photos and stories of their New Year’s Eve adventures to the site. Details on each of the five locations and more are located at http://www.tripwolf.com/en/page/2009. For more information on tripwolf, visit www.tripwolf.com.

tripwolf offers hotel price comparison to its travel community

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Posted by admin on November 17, 2008 – 6:04 pm
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ONLINE TRAVEL GUIDE TRIPWOLF NOW OFFERS HOTEL PRICE COMPARISON
tripwolf Partners with HotelsCombined.com to Save its Users Time and Money

NEW YORK. November 17, 2008—Users of social travel guide www.tripwolf.com can now find the lowest rates available for hotels in any destination on the planet. The newly integrated hotel search engine, powered by HotelsCombined.com, allows tripwolf users to find and compare hotel rates across 30 leading booking sites such as hotels.com and priceline.com.

“This is the perfect tool for travelers in the current economic climate,” says Sebastian Heinzel, tripwolf CEO. “With hotel price comparison right on tripwolf.com, travelers can still enjoy seeing the world.”

“We are pleased to announce our API partnership with tripwolf. Through our partnership, tripwolf is taking travel social networking to the next level by revolutionizing the way tripwolfers can research, plan and now find the best available hotel deals through our meta search capabilities” remarked Yury Shar, HotelsCombined.com Managing Director.

tripwolf’s travel community of 12,000 globetrotters already gives travelers valuable travel advice about how to stretch their money when on the road. tripwolf.com offers city guides, pictures, travel blogs and maps for more than 250,000 destinations, attractions, sights and points of interest.

Now, tripwolf has added hundreds of thousands of hotel deals for popular destinations such as London and exotic destinations such as El Salvador. In total, HotelsCombined.com database includes 900,000 hotel deals spanning the globe.

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About tripwolf
tripwolf gives travelers the opportunity to create—and print—a personalized travel guide for any destination. Travel information found on tripwolf.com is compiled from the travel community’s tips, network friends, maps, destination “trip gurus” and MairDumont, Europe’s largest travel guide publisher. Users also can publish content about their own travel experiences, including uploading pictures and keeping travel blogs. Additionally, tripwolf members can network with other travelers from around the world, as well as import their contacts from social networks such as Facebook. For more information on tripwolf, visit http://www.tripwolf.com/en/page/about.

About HotelsCombined.com
HotelsCombined.com has partnered with more than 30 of the most visited travel websites including Intercontinental.com, Booking.com and Hotels.com to build the single largest database of hotels in the world featuring over 200,000 hotels in 20,000 destinations. HotelsCombined.com searches the travel websites in real-time to show consumers availability and the optimal hotel deals. For more information visit http://www.HotelsCombined.com.