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July 9, 2008 -- Marriott Hotels Sees Over 10,000 Visitors a Month to Custom Trip Planner

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 07/09/2008

Contact:
Mark Schroeder, CEO
Home&Abroad
Phone: 303-544-0073
Fax: 303-546-0352
Mark@homeandabroad.com
www.homeandabroad.com

MARRIOTT HOTELS SEES OVER 10,000 VISITORS A MONTH TO CUSTOM TRIP PLANNER
Thousands of Marriott customers get added value from a customizable trip planning tool.

BOULDER, Colorado (07/09/2008) -- Travel planning website Home&Abroad's trip planning tool has found success on the Marriott website. The well-known hotel chain added the trip planner application to their high-traffic website in July, 2007, and has since seen the number of site visitors increase rapidly. The first month that the trip planner was launched on Marriott's website, they received 7,629 unique visitors. Each month since December, 2007, over 10,000 visitors have browsed Marriott's trip planner.

Recently, Marriott has seen record numbers of visitors to their website's trip planner, with 11,212 visitors in May, 2008, and 12,276 visitors in June, 2008. Not only does the site attract a high volume of visitors, but also boasts a wide variety of users from across the globe. For example, June, 2008, brought in visitors from over 3,000 cities and 110 countries around the world.

Home&Abroad's trip planner is an easy-to-use application that can be added to any website. Clients benefit because they can offer their website users an added-value tool, and visitors benefit from utilizing Home&Abroad's feature-rich database of destination information to create a personalized itinerary for the destination of their choice. The trip planner offers quality content for over 100 destinations around the world, color and theme-customization options, and easy uploading capabilities for photos and business logos, enabling any travel-oriented business to create a trip planner that incorporates their branding and that integrates seamlessly into the look and feel of their website.

About Home&Abroad: Home&Abroad is a travel technology company based in Boulder, Colorado. Their flagship consumer site, http://www.homeandabroad.com, was rated one of the top 25 travel-related websites by Travel & Leisure magazine in 2007 and has been featured by CNN, CTV (Canada's largest private television network), and many other media outlets.
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For more information about how you can add Home&Abroad's trip planner to your website, please contact Mark Schroeder directly at 303-544-0073 or mark@homeandabroad.com.