World's most comprehensive online travel resource: Professional Travel Guide.com launched

Nov 02, 07 | 8:57 am

Travelers rejoice! With the launch of ProfessionalTravelGuide.com, travelers will get unfettered free access to industry insider information that was only available to travel professionals until now. ProfessionalTravelGuide.com is the world's most comprehensive online trip planning resource with a database of more than 159,000 hotels, 7,000 destinations, and 10,000 professional hotel reviews worldwide.

Legendary hotelier Horst Schulze, former President of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company and current CEO of Capella and Solis Hotels and Resorts, said: "ProfessionalTravelGuide.com promises to become the "go-to" site for high-end leisure and business travelers. The extensiveness and quality of its content is unmatched in our industry. Plus, the endorsement of travel agents is exactly what advertisers in our business are looking for. We also like the website's direct to vendor model. I'm tremendously impressed, which is why this is the first time Capella and Solis Hotels and Resorts are advertising on any online travel website."

ProfessionalTravelGuide.com will offer the most extensive collection of professional hotel reviews, restaurants, breaking travel news, images, videos and destination guides ever assembled on the Internet. It will be the world's most comprehensive online trip planning resource featuring a database of more than 159,000 hotels. 10,000 hotel reviews and more than 7,000 destinations are continuously updated by 200 professional journalists based around the world. For the first time, travelers will get unfettered, unbiased free access to industry insider information that previously was only available to travel professionals.

Peter Nicas, ProfessionalTravelGuide.com's CEO, said: "ProfessionalTravelGuide.com is completely different from any other travel website. Our goal is simply to provide the best and most comprehensive travel information available anywhere. We are not interested in handling transactions. We also don't offer user-generated reviews. Our content is proprietary and derived from recognized and trusted industry experts on whom travel professionals have relied for decades. Once consumers have made their travel selections, they are free to contact the travel vendor or agent of their choice.

"We are excited to make the indispensible travel information contained on ProfessionalTravelGuide.com available for free to travelers everywhere," he continued. "The professional and objective nature of the content combined with its completeness is our trademark and a major source of pride to us."

ProfessionalTravelGuide.com is written by professional travel journalists and draws its content from the travel industry's leading databases, such as Star Service hotel reviews, Weissmann Professional Destination Reports, Hotel & Travel Index (HTI), and Official Meeting Facilities Guide (OMFG). ProfessionalTravelGuide.com's editorial team includes 30 industry experts and a network of more than 200 global travel correspondents. Previously, the website content has been available only on a fee basis to industry professionals.

ProfessionalTravelGuide.com's features include:

• The world's largest and most complete hotel database, the same database that has been the primary information resource for travel professionals for decades is now free and instantly available to consumers. Over 300 fields of information including virtual tours and in-depth descriptions of on-site amenities are offered on more than 159,000 hotels worldwide.

• 10,000 in-depth, professional, unbiased hotel reviews and 6,500 in-depth, professional restaurant reviews, constantly updated by a staff of more than 200 global, professional travel writers and editors, located throughout the world.

• Free in-depth guides to 7,000 worldwide destinations, including complete sightseeing overviews, nightlife, event calendars, and nearby shopping areas, etc. Like the hotel reviews, the destination guides are constantly updated

• Interactive three-dimensional maps that enable leisure or business travelers to find the perfect lodging for their destination. Using the latest web-technology, they can actually see hotels, restaurants and sightseeing attractions, and their relative locations.

• Personalized eGuidebooks: Travelers will never again need to buy another travel book! Rather than purchasing and lugging around heavy, generic, mostly out-of-date guide books, users can easily design their own personalized travel itinerary and guide book for their upcoming trip. As travel enthusiasts navigate through ProfessionalTravelGuide.com, they can designate hotels, restaurants, and points of interest with an intuitive eGuidebook tool, creating customized guidebooks for one or multiple locations. Travelers can print out or download their eGuidebook for their trip or access it online via mobile devices.

• Not sure where to go or stay? ProfessionalTravelGuide.com's writers and editors offer users travel suggestions with its daily Featured Hotels, Featured Destination, and Editor's Choice sections. The Editor's Choice section will cover such topics as the staff's Top Reviewed Hotels, Destinations or Cruises to their favorites in categories ranging from adventure travel to the world's best zoos.

• Rounding out ProfessionalTravelGuide.com's offerings are several features indispensable to sophisticated travelers: Real-time health and travel security, using the resources of the world's most up-to-date travel security rating system; International business etiquette tips, covering everything from how to present a business card in Japan to how to conduct a meeting in Germany; and an array of additional Travel tools, including weather, currency exchange, and passport/visa rules.

About ProfessionalTravelGuide.com
ProfessionalTravelGuide.com is the most comprehensive, unbiased travel resource on the Internet. Designed for leisure and business travelers who value credible and objective travel information above all else, the website comprises the most extensive collection of professional hotel reviews, breaking travel news, images, videos, and destination guides ever assembled on the Internet. The site features the world's largest travel database including more than 159,000 hotels, 7,000+ destination travel guides; 10,000+ professional hotel reviews; 250,000+ associated high resolution images; streaming videos; real-time health and travel security alerts; international business etiquette; and personalized eGuideBooks™. ProfessionalTravelGuide.com is written by professional travel journalists and draws its content from the travel industry's leading databases, such as Star Service hotel reviews, Weissmann Professional Destination Reports, Hotel & Travel Index (HTI), and Official Meeting Facilities Guide (OMFG).