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VisitingNewEngland.com relaunches with exciting new features and a refreshed look Published: Jan. 6, 2010 (BOSTON, MASS.) -- We are pleased to let you know our Web Site, VisitingNewEngland.com, has re-launched with many new features, sure to benefit our readers. With original content still at the forefront of what we do, VisitingNewEngland.com has also upgraded its site with the following features: New hotel reservations interface (courtesy of Interactive Hotel Solutions), including · searching by hotel name · filtering by multiple chains · filtering by multiple amenities · searching nearby cities · searching for hotels near major points of interest · viewing all hotels on a map · filtering by price range · filtering by star rating range · filtering by guest rating range You also will have access to hotel links in New England's most popular cities and towns in the left-hand column of every page. If you don't see the city or town you are looking for, you can access them all at the hotel search engine at our New England Hotel Guide. The New England Hotel Guide has access to more than 3,000 hotels in over 300 New England towns and cities. You can also make reservations in any other part of the country (or world) on this page at the lowest available rate. You can also find weekly "best travel deals," at VisitingNewEngland.com including air, car rentals, restaurants, discount attractions passes, etc. We also are offering a free monthly New England travel newsletter, revealing the best travel deals and mention of the latest VisitingNewEngland.com articles, photos and travel tips. You can sign up on any page, in the right hand column. Greater opportunities exist to share and connect through social media, focusing on New England travel and vacation subject matters. We offer a New England Vacations New England Vacations Facebook Fan Page, as well as featuring a New England Info Twitter page to bring you all the latest New England travel news and perspectives. You can become a follower by clicking the links in the right-hand column on any VisitingNewEngland.com page. At the beginning and end of every article, we also have mechanisms where you can share that given VisitingNewEngland.com page with others through Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, Digg and other social media web sites. This allows for you to support our locally-owned and produced businesses by letting others know about VisitingNewEngland.com. We would be grateful, if you would consider supporting us this way. VisitingNewEngland.com is also dedicated to giving back to our community by donating a portion of our ad hotel reservation commissions and locally-called-in or emailed ads to a local homeless shelter. We hope to someday offer more commissions to the shelter through our other monetization routes, but, for now, we think this is a good start. We are also lowering our ad rates for local businesses, so that virtually everyone can afford advertising. We can offer an ad for $25.00 a page for one year because it simply allows more people to advertise (and yes, bringing us more ads). We never understood why some publications have to charge so much for advertisers. We always ask ourselves, "Why does it have to be this way, or that?" Why not conduct business another way that can better benefit local businesses?" If you know any local business that would like to advertise, please feel free to refer them to our advertising page. Thanks! On the content side, you will see more feature stories, some with social issues affecting New England. In the next month, we will be featuring articles on a homeless shelter that helps break the cycle of poverty for local families, and a local baker who will be introducing an entire gluten-free line of baked goods at a facility south of Boston. We also just debuted the "Shop Local, Buy Local New England!" blog, which informs readers of the many high quality, locally owned businesses in the New England states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. We are, ultimately, huge proponents of quality locally-owned businesses, part of which derives from warm memories of “back in the day” downtown shopping and the other part that knows that “small business” is a lifeline to economic prosperity in our country. Additionally, we will be featuring more New England calendar of events listings, starting February 2010, with the "This Just In!" Blog. "This Just In!" will be embedded into the VisitingNewEngland.com site, so there's no need to access a separate Web Site. We are also entertaining the thought of starting a New England Vacations talk radio show online, perhaps by September 2009 (this would take lots of preparation!). While we have much more work to do, we are extremely grateful for your support and interest in VisitingNewEngland.com. As our friends, families, neighbors and those interested in New England travel have found our information useful (nearly 700,000 hits in the past year), we are motivated to bring you a lot more. We are also grateful for our past and present advertisers, including the Rhode Island Tourism Division, Foxwoods, MGM Grand at Foxwoods, Mystic (CT) Country, TimeSharesOnly, the Wildflower Inn (Lyndonville VT), etc. We also owe a debt of gratitude to Web Sites like Wikipedia and TripAdvisor that have referenced some of our articles, as well as publications like Women's World Weekly that have mentioned us. Thanks so much, everyone -- we look forward to showing our gratitude by bringing VisitingNewEngland.com up to the next level, now and in the future -- to benefit you, our family, friends and business associates. Happy travels!! We'd be so grateful if could help us by spreading the word on VisitingNewEngland.com. By forwarding this message, letting people know on your favorite social media sites, or by telling them in person, anything you can do to help our independently-run business would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much! |
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