www.Flightlesstravel.com promotes slow travel in June 13 UPI business story

June 14, 2010 - PRLog -- Flightless travel, also known as low-carbon or slow travel, keeps plane flights to a minimum or eliminates them from the itinerary altogether, so you travel by slower methods. Travelers reduce stress and enjoy their travel journey experiences more as a result.

The www.FlightlessTravel.com low-carbon travel resource website site recently saw a 700% increase in visitors as travelers stranded by British Air strikes and volcanic ash airport shutdowns searched for alternative, planeless ways of traveling around or getting back home.

Tom and Lorraine McMillan, the co-founders of the site, are articulate, knowledgeable people with a passion for environmental protection (Tom's an environmental scientist) and enhancing any travel experience you undertake. They took five months in 2008 to travel from New Zealand to the UK via the slow travel way, and as a result founded Flightlesstravel.com.  Visitors can review itineraries and tips posted on the site by other travelers, and add in their own experiences and suggestions for unique and creative itineraries and ways of traveling around in a plane-minimal, low-carbon way.

Full UPI story  (June 13, 4:16 am, by Marcella S. Kreiter), is located at www.UPI.com, under "Business", and then "Consumer Corner", and gives an idea of Tom and Lorraine McMillan as interview subjects. Interview requests, please, to Gail Sorley, Sorley Strategies Public Relations email at Sorleystrategies@aol.com, UK telephone 44-(0-)1333-310063.

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Gail Sorley Public Relations has experience and expertise in helping travel-related companies to promote themselves, their products, and their services to the general traveling public. All sizes of companies are worked with, and new businesses are a specialty as they need to get into the marketplace and make a big impact fast. Current and past clients have included Samsonite Luggage, Opera on Original Site, Christian Tours, and Love Holidays/Uniworld tour operators.