New travel information forum for Cosmopolitan Travelers from travel lifestylist Susan Michelle.

PRLog (Press Release) - Jun 25, 2007 -
Los Angeles, CA--For Immediate Release:

Travel Lifestylist Susan Michelle has announced the creation of a new user-generated travel information arm of her main travel lifestyle website, http://www.compasstravel.info. The intention of the new bulletin board-style forum is to be a casual online gathering place for niche-centric Cosmopolitan Travelers. “Susan's Travel Salon,” located at http://www.compasstravel.info/forums, has taken the concept of the old-fashioned French salon, where similarly-minded artists and intellectuals gathered to discuss the goings-on of the day, and modernized it for today's chic, web-dependent traveler.

According to Ms. Michelle, Susan's Travel Salon is not about gathering tips from travelers from all walks of life, since most people's travel styles today are as individual as their everyday lifestyle. “Most travelers want travel tips that are apropos to their own travel sensibilities,” she says, “…not tips from people with travel standards that may vary widely from their own; this is the problem with large, all-inclusive-type travel information websites, I think. Niche information sites are far more useful to the discerning traveler.  And since I can't possibly cover it all myself, this is a way for my readers to also contribute, connect, and help each other.”  

Susan Michelle's type of traveler is what she calls the “Cosmopolitan Traveler”: someone who aspires to the jetsetting life, but lives on a budget.  Anti-tourist, fashion-forward, information-overloaded, urban-living, adventure-seeking, culture-loving professionals who are past their backpacking years, but not yet arrived at a true luxury lifestyle.  ”Impoverished jetsetters,” she also calls them, “…who are always on the go.  For them, “traveling” is not just about two weeks of vacation a year, but a lifestyle lived every day.  And lived to the best of their abilities.”

In keeping with Ms. Michelle's back-to-basics, retro sensibilities, her Travel Salon is simpler than the high-tech social networking sites that are popular right now.  Social networking is certainly part of the experience at http://www.compasstravel.info/forums, but, ultimately, it's about information.  Users can join, then post their question or find a relevant travel tip quickly and easily, without having to set up a highly-stylized profile first. Visitors can choose to create a simple profile, or not, or post vacation stories or a picture, or just hang out.    

Members of the traveling public are encouraged to register with the site and begin posting their own tips or questions starting this month.  It's never too soon to start pointing each other in the right direction.

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