After the positive experience of Paesionline.com, we realized that the use of an English name would be easier to find in the infinite universe of the World Wide Web.
We have therefore chosen to change Paesionline.com into Placesonline.com. It will be a portal for every kind of tourism, which will include not only Italy but all the main international tourist destinations, with particular emphasis on the United States and the United Kingdom.
The Placesonline home page offers four main channels from which it is possible to reach all the services offered by the portal: travel guides, travel & holidays, community and videos.
Travel guide offers a comprehensive guide to more than 200 nations in the world. Travel & holidays enables reservations of those indispensable services such as hotels, hostels, airline tickets and car rental. And you can build up your own holiday one click at a time.
Community guarantees constant interaction between the user and the editorial staff that will supply the most up to date information. In this connection the writers’ service, that has already been amply tested in the Italian version, is particularly interesting. The video section has been set up in collaboration with the major Italian and foreign television production companies, and offers a wide range of documentaries.
With regard to the Writers’ Program, we would like to remind you that it is a service aimed at all those travelers who have a passion for writing and who wish to share their travel experiences with the internet public. You can write about the history and the customs of the places that you have visited. More importantly, it can provide every possible kind of useful information for the traveler, with indications of places to see, how to behave and what to avoid. It will contain a vast range of practical input and experience and will be very interesting and useful to all users.
The Writers’ Program is also accessible from the home page of the new Placesonline.com portal, or directly from http://www.placesonline.com/
Placesonline offers two important free services to tour operators. These are YSA (Your Smart Activity) and Placesonline Business.
YSA permits the promotion of receiver structures on the portal via a display service into which a description of the structure can be inserted together with photographs and direct contact addresses. The structure is then inserted and promoted in the correct locality.
Placesonline Business offers tourism companies the possibility of free promotion of their services such as itineraries and guided tours, rental of cars or boats, etc. Again, in this case, after registration, a display allows the user to insert all the presentation information necessary, including photographic material and other services for tourists.
Placesonline.com aims, therefore, to furnish the most complete and modern services to as many users as possible. Just like its “big brother” in the Italian language, Paesionline.it, Placesonline.com will be the main reference point for English speaking tourism.
