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Europe officially launches travel Website

Holiday In Wales The European Travel Commission has launched its new global online portal, blasting off into cyberspace after extensive planning and development.

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Cottage Holiday In Wales While the new portal will keep the same http://www.visiteurope.com/ URL, online travelers will find a whole new world of functions and capabilities.

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Catering Holiday Self Wales "We are delighted to introduce this new online resource now, when people are planning and booking their summer vacations, "said ETC chairman Conrad Van Tiggelen. "Like Europe itself, the portal packs a lot of rich and robust material into a compact space. We are also very pleased to partner with American Express Travel in launching the portal, one of the most trusted names in travel and a natural fit for the ETC in promoting Europe's never-ending journey."

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Family Holiday Wales "Our partnership with the ETC enables us to highlight for consumers all 'the more reasons to visit' Europe, and we are very pleased to be part of launching the ETC's new portal with its exciting new features."

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Adventure Holiday Wales First time visitors to Europe and seasoned travelers alike will open a new door at http://www.visiteurope.com/ that swings even wider in welcome to 34 diverse ETC member countries.

Holiday Park South Wales A unique access point to Europe, it will provide a travel planner, lifestyle content and comprehensive coverage of major events by country and category in an interactive database, as well as a flight connection search engine covering more than 500 airlines.

Cottage Holiday Wales Indeed, with the portal's flight search engine, travelers can learn how to use Amsterdam Schiphol or Frankfurt Airports, for example, to pack many kinds of European vacation into one trip. Savvy travelers know these airports as versatile hubs for hopping all over Europe. An art and music tour this June, for example, might start with important art exhibits such as Brueghel in Brussels, Rembrandt in Amsterdam and Picasso in Malaga, Spain, and continue to the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, Mozart in Austria, celebrating his 250th birthday all year long, and the Hultsfred Rock Festival in Sweden. The site also offers a weather channel, currency converter and links to the official websites of the ETC's 34 member countries.

Holiday In Wales Future plans for the portal include grouping countries around experiential themes, such as skiing in the Alps, following art and architecture from one country to another, fishing in Scandinavia, cruising the Danube. Like Europe itself, the possibilities are endless.

Holiday Wales The ETC is a marketing organization whose role is to promote Europe as a tourist destination and provide a range of information, research and electronic distribution services to its members. Members include Austria, Belgium, Britain, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and Ukraine.

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