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Making travel guides available online and on mobiles

October 13th 2009. Today renowned travel guide publisher Footprint (www.footprintbooks.com) and tripwolf (www.tripwolf.com), one of the world’s leading online travel guides, announce a far-reaching cooperation at the Frankfurt Book Fair. tripwolf will digitise over 60 Footprint guidebooks extracting extensive destination insight and over 150,000 points of interest (incl attractions, sights, hotels and restaurants). This information will be made available to users on both Footprint and tripwolf websites, as well as via mobile applications created by both companies.

Following a trial partnership, Footprint Managing Director Andy Riddle says “We’ve been really impressed with the way in which tripwolf have adapted content from our Peru Handbook into a well considered iPhone application which is intuitive to the way in which people travel. We are very excited about developing other digital products across all of the destinations we cover. Combining Footprint’s depth and breadth of content with tripwolfs innovative digital approach is a real win-win for travellers.”

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The online travel guide tripwolf.com presents a new trip planner that tracks the summer trips of the rich and powerful.

Vienna, September 8, 2009. The online travel guide tripwolf (http://www.tripwolf.com) celebrates a total makeover and presents a convenient new trip planner. With just a few clicks, users can create the trips of their dreams. For the launch or tripwolf 2.0, the tripwolf team has put together the summer itineraries of prominent politicians - with a little twist. Find out where Silvio Berlusconi, Nicolas Sarkozy or The Obamas spent their time off in summer 2009 (http://www.devel.tripwolf.com/en/trips/location/1)!

With over 2 million monthly visits, the tripwolf community is already one of the biggest and most comprehensive travel sites in the online world - and it’s just celebrating its first birthday. With the new trip planner every user can now put together a unique trip and immediately print a personalized travel guide - for free and without registration!

When creating a trip, users can choose from more than 500,000 destinations, points of interests, and hotels worldwide. The information about these locations comes from renowned travel guide publishers and from the community of more than 40,000 well-traveled tripwolf members worldwide. The tripwolf team has built hundreds of ready-made trips - find everything from walking trips through Paris’ artist district, Montmartre (http://www.devel.tripwolf.com/en/trips/location/1077), to trekking tours in the Peruvian Andes (http://www.devel.tripwolf.com/en/trips/location/616).

„With the new trip planner tripwolf has become an incredibly useful travel tool,” Sebastian Heinzel, CEO of tripwolf, states proudly. „On top of that, we have improved tripwolf in every aspect - the site is now faster and more informative and looks better, ” he adds. „We have fulfilled many wishes of our community. The cub has turned into a grown wolf!”

About tripwolf
tripwolf.com is a social travel guide available in five languages - English, German, French, Spanish and Italian. What makes tripwolf special is the content mix: professional editorial from print travel guides like “Marco Polo” and “Footprint” paired with user generated content by travelers from all over the world. Users can add personal blog posts, ratings and photos to about 500.000 different locations worldwide and can download and print personalized travel guides. With the tripwolf iPhone application they can also access the travel information on the road - online or offline. The tripwolf company is based in Vienna, Austria.

Contact:

Adena Harford

tel: +1 207 332 7338

a.harford@tripwolf.com

http://www.tripwolf.com

www.twitter.com/tripwolf

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.