www.Flightlesstravel.com Launches New Website for Plane-less Travel

Feb. 10, 2010 - PRLog -- New Website, FlightlessTravel.com, Helps Travellers Plan Flightless Journeys

St. Andrews, Scotland – Feb. 10.  A new website has just been launched for individuals who love travel but feel the guilt of flying. The site focuses on travel by train, bus, boat and numerous other modes allowing travellers to plan anything from a short city break to a gap year to explore the world.

Visitors to www.Flightlesstravel.com can view rated journeys added onto the site by other users, to help them to create their own flightless travel itineraries. The new website helps travellers to get from here to there and everywhere in-between by any mode of transport to avoid flying.  The site has been designed with the developing world in mind where clear and reliable travel information is hard to come by.  Visitors are invited to input their own itineraries, ideas, and suggestions; rate routes; or refer to the site to plan their own flightless journeys that meet their own travel needs and interests. Additional information on carbon emissions, ethical travel and travel safety is also provided on the site.

The site was inspired by co-founders Tom and Lorraine McMillan’s 2008 flightless 85-day journey from Singapore to Scotland incorporating 22 buses, 14 trains, 11 boats, and an unknown number of tuk tuks (three-wheeled taxi). Travelling through the largest country in the world as well as the most populated, along with 11 other countries, they visited the beaches of Thailand, Angkor Wat, the Gobi desert, Siberia, The Great Wall of China and many more exotic and sometimes hard-to-reach locations.

When Tom is asked why he launched the new website, his answer is a simple one.  “I have always been worried about the environmental effect of flights since my student days, but it was only when Lorraine and I were trying to figure out a way to get back from working in New Zealand by land and sea that we realised how hard it is to find all the information we needed. Next time we do a big trip, we want it to be easier, so we decided to create a community for fellow flightless travellers where everything you need to know is in one place. We're not against flying per se, but flightlesstravel.com will hopefully make it easier for people to choose the wonderful alternatives that are available."

Their 2008 journey reinforced what had inspired their adventure in the first place, “…that where you're going is not as important as how you get there.”

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MEDIA, PLEASE NOTE:  Tom & Lorraine McMillan are available for interviews to discuss their own flightless travel experiences traveling the world; why they began the website; what they hope to accomplish with it; and other subjects. Please contact Gail Sorley directly to arrange an interview or request additional information.

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