No Need to Phone Home While Traveling. Keep in Touch with Family and Friends Via the Web.
MyTripJournal lets you create your own travel website so that you can record your journey and keep in touch with family and friends. Designed to be used by anyone, the system lets you store and display your photos and text and plot your journey with built-in maps.
Vancouver, Canada (PRWEB) May 21, 2005 -- Mom and Dad want to know that you
are safe...friends want to hear who you've met and what you've done...the kids
want to know that you are healthy...co-workers want to vicariously experience
your adventures... These are just a few of the reasons why Dan and Faye Parlow —
together with software developers Dave Vincent and Paul Melhus — created the
increasingly popular service called MyTripJournal.com. Whereas once upon a time,
you did and then you told; now it is possible to do and tell at the same time!
With the help of MyTripJournal.com, travelers can share their experiences with
everyone as they go!
With just a few clicks, anyone can create their own
travel website, allowing them to:
- plot their journey on maps with the
IntelliMap System
- store & display photos, stories and experiences
-
exchange messages with friends and family
- control who views the ad-free
personal travel website
- download a permanent archive at the end of the
trip.
Whether the trip is a few weeks in Europe following graduation, an
extended sabbatical from work, that retiree's trip of a lifetime, or a new job
assignment away from home, MyTripJournal.com eliminates the need to be making
regular calls back home. It also eliminates sending separate emails to a myriad
of family members and friends, all of who wanted you to "keep in touch."
"MyTripJournal.com offers a secure and stable platform for travelers to
store their photos and journals," stresses co-founder Faye Parlow. "It invites
friends and family to read when and wherever it is convenient for them do so.
Travelers can post as many photos as they want without worrying about crashing
anyone's computer. Readers can go back to previous journal entries and photos as
often as they like. And the mapping function is an excellent way to provide
geographical context for friends and family."
Lonely PlanetTM, the
world's leading independent travel company, recently added MyTripJournal.com to
their travel services. "This innovative product allows travelers to record their
adventures online. Interested friends, family and colleagues can participate in
the journeys, and the traveler has a permanent interactive record of the trip,"
said Julie Yamato, Travel Services Manager for LonelyPlanet.com. "Working with
MyTripJournal to distribute Personal Travel Websites helps us serve the
communication needs of our travelers and those who want to follow virtually in
the footsteps of the travelers." Other MyTripJournal.com partners include
Adventure Center, STATravelUSA, TravelCUTS, GAPAdventures, Good Sam Club, BCAA
(part of AAA - British Columbia), AMA (part of AAA - Alberta), and Connections
(Belgium).
Anyone can create their own 45 day MyTripJournal website for
free in less than five minutes (no credit card required) with no obligation. For
longer-term websites with additional features, charges are modest. In general,
these are less than the cost of regular phone calls home. (See chart below or
MyTripJournal.com for details.) So, although cell phones have made staying in
touch much easier from almost anywhere, one call cannot connect travelers to
everyone instantly in the way the Web now can. And calls certainly can't retain
all those photos to produce an instant "scrapbook" after you return home. If ET
found himself away from home today, I bet he would be using MyTripJournal.com,
instead of worrying about phoning home.
Check out these examples of
MyTripJournal.com users*:
• Honeymooners - http://www.mytripjournal.com/honeytrip
• Retired people on
road trips - http://www.mytripjournal.com/haletrip
• Military - http://www.mytripjournal.com/JackieBosnia2004-05
• French,
German and Spanish-speaking travelers - http://www.mytripjournal.com/Virg_VinZ
• Young backpackers
- http://www.mytripjournal.com/behle - http://www.mytripjournal.com/whitney
• People with
overseas job postings - http://www.mytripjournal.com/michaelinchina (English teacher)
• People on sabbatical - - http://www.mytripjournal.com/Emmeblad
• Round the world -
http://www.mytripjournal.com/Armstrong
*The above are
public sites. Travelers can choose to password protect their
sites.
Cost?
STANDARD Personal Website:
60 day - $19
6 month -
$39
1 year - $59
PREMIUM Personal Website:
60 day - $29
6 month
- $59
1 year - $89
Upgrade from Standard to Premium at any time. Just pay
the difference on the remaining time. Extend your website at anytime. 30 day,
money back guarantee.
For Further Information, Please Contact:
Dan
Parlow
Co-Founder, MyTripJournal.com
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Phone:
+1.604.728.5500
Email: e-mail protected from spam bots
Kate
Bandos
KSB Promotions, Visibility Specialists
Ada, MI
Phone:
800-304-3269
Email: e-mail protected from spam bots
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Source : http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/5/prweb242840.htm