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.

eMarketer Interview with Sebastian Heinzel: Seeing Social Travel Sites Anew

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Posted by admin on October 31, 2008 – 7:18 pm
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AN INTERVIEW WITH:
Sebastian Heinzel
Co-Founder, CEO, tripwolf
July 31, 2008
Sebastian Heinzel and Alexander Trieb founded tripwolf, a social travel guide that caters to 20- and 30-something “flashpackers” from Europe and the US. Based in Vienna, with offices in New York City and Budapest, the site combines information from professional travel writers with user-generated content, including media from Flickr, Wikipedia and YouTube.

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tripwolf Users Expand Their Networks to Win Free FON Routers

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Posted by Maria on October 22, 2008 – 9:35 pm
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tripwolf, an online social travel guide, is hosting a competition with FON WiFi to award free FON routers to those who build the largest networks in tripwolf’s community. tripwolf will name two winners every two weeks from October 15 to November 25. The goal of the tripwolf-FON collaboration is to rally a community of traveling, Internet-users who will create a network of free Internet around the world.

tripwolf is a collaborative social network where members share travel experiences, give real-time advice and search for user-generated information on the best places to visit. The competition mirrors the natural community building experience of the tripwolf site—awarding one point for each friend and ten points for each new member referral.

“tripwolf members are on the Internet all the time, whether it’s using our Facebook application or asking their network which hotel is the best in Madrid,” said Sebastian Heinzel, tripwolf CEO. “We’re working with FON in order to develop a culture where people can arrive in any city and feel confident that free WiFi is available.”

tripwolf will announce the final winners on Tuesday, November 25. To enroll in the FON competition, visit www.tripwolf.com/en/page/foncompetition. For more information on tripwolf, visit www.tripwolf.com.

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About tripwolf
tripwolf gives travelers the opportunity to create—and print—a personalized travel guide for any destination. Travel information is a compilation of tips from members, network friends, destination “trip gurus” and MairDumont, Europe’s largest travel guide publisher. Users also can publish individualized content about their own travel experiences, including YouTube videos, Flickr photos and travel journals. 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 www.tripwolf.com.

About FON
FON is the world’s largest WiFi community. FON’s mission is to stimulate the growth of WiFi around the world by creating a global community of “Foneros”. FON’s La Fonera routers have been designed to enable Foneros to share their home Internet access in a completely secure manner. Founded in February 2006 in Madrid, Spain, FON investors include Google, Skype, Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital and British Telecom. Currently FON has over 250.000 hotspots worldwide and more than 900,000 registered members in Europe, Asia and America.
For more information, visit FON at www.fon.com.

Welcome to our press section

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Posted by admin on October 15, 2008 – 3:26 pm
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Press Info: New social travel guide tripwolf.com offers free guides

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Posted by admin on August 21, 2008 – 9:41 am
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New social travel guide tripwolf.com offers free guides to Europe and the rest of the world Start-up backed by Europe’s largest publisher of travel guides,
MairDumont

New York City, July 1, 2008. Today tripwolf.com (http://www.tripwolf.com) is released publically to the US market. tripwolf is a new social travel guide that covers the whole world, focusing mainly on Europe. tripwolf combines professional editorial content with user-generated content from globetrotters worldwide. tripwolf is backed by MairDumont, Europe’s largest publisher of travel guides including Baedeker, Dumont and Marco Polo. Read More »

Welcome to tripwolf SMNR

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Posted by admin on August 14, 2008 – 9:46 am
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