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Travel's big cause of death: vehicles
The white tour bus, with 25 people onboard last August, was picking up speed as it headed down the hillside, barreling toward a 90-degree turn in the road more than a quarter-mile away.
"I thought, 'Are we going to die like that?' " said Chin, 52, an atmospheric scientist who lives in suburban Washington, D.C.
But in a dramatic twist of fate, a herd of yaks happened to be crossing the road at the time. The bus slammed into more than a dozen of the oxen, slowing the vehicle down, before it collided with a retention wall. Beyond the unfortunate yaks, there were no serious injuries. Chin was treated for minor cuts and bruises.
Months later, Chin considers herself incredibly lucky. But new data released last week highlights the perils of traffic safety for U.S. travelers abroad. Traffic crashes are the most common cause of non-natural deaths for American tourists, according to State Department data, more prominent than homicides, acts of terrorism or natural disasters.
Traffic crashes accounted for the deaths of 741 U.S. citizens traveling overseas from 2004-2006, or about one-third of the 2,364 deaths, according to an analysis of State Department data by the Make Roads Safe Campaign, an independent, nonprofit group funded by a charitable foundation in the United Kingdom dedicated to reducing global traffic deaths and injuries.
The group said the figures could be understated because some families may not report deaths to the State Department or some travelers may return for medical treatment and die in the United States. The report was issued last Wednesday as part of the first United Nations Global Road Safety Week.
Make Roads Safe: /www.make makeroadssafe.org/
Association for Safe International Road Travel : www.asirt.org/
Automobile use has expanded rapidly in many parts of the world where transportation was once confined to bicycles. China, for example, is now the second-largest vehicle market in the world and passenger car sales grew 37 percent there last year.
Traffic-safety experts say many American travelers overlook the dangers of road safety during their vacations and need to arrive at their destinations with more than just a packed suitcase, travel papers and vaccinations.
They should know about a country's road conditions, look into a travel company's safety record, avoid traveling at night and follow safety standards such as buckling up and not drinking and driving.
"Travelers indeed worry about malaria — all the diseases they can contract. They worry about terrorism, they worry about hooliganism, they worry about people taking their things," said Rochelle Sobel, president of the Association for Safe International Road Travel. "And they don't worry about the single greatest cause of death."
Sobel started her organization after her 25-year-old son, Aron, was killed in a bus crash in Turkey just two weeks before his medical-school graduation. Her association provides detailed reports on road conditions, dangerous highways and driver behavior for more than 150 countries.
Young adults can be particularly vulnerable. The World Health Organization reported last week that nearly 400,000 young people under 25 are killed in traffic crashes annually and car crashes are the leading cause of death worldwide for people ages 10 to 24.
Copyright © 2007 The Seattle Times Company
Thursday, April 26, 2007
Travelers Go and Tell, Tourism Sites Show and Sell
Web sites where consumers can read travel journals and reviews of hotels, cruise ships and attractions written by fellow travelers are rapidly gaining popularity. Among them are TripAdvisor.com , IGoUGo.com and TripPost.com.
One of the challenges now facing destination marketers is finding the best ways to mine these online consumer referrals.
"Ad speak and market speak are dead," said Dale Brill, CMO at Visit Florida, the Sunshine State's official tourism unit. "Consumers don't want to hear ad copy. They want to hear first-person from people who are out there."
Visit Florida will give social networking a try in October. The tourism board will unveil video blogs manned by 10 experts, each one covering specific travel interests. St. Petersburg Times outdoors reporter Terry Tomlin, for example, will host a blog covering Florida wildlife. A woman with the handle "Hip Chic" will gush about the Florida social scene and shopping.
Whether or not travelers will relate to Visit Florida as they do to TripAdvisor remains to be seen. "Many of those [consumer-driven] Web sites are seen as an objective third-party, giving other consumers unbiased recommendations," said Laura Ries, president at pr consultancy Ries & Ries, Norcross, Ga. "Certainly Florida should have a site that has info, but they can't expect people will see that as a third-party source."
Visit Florida will break a TV effort this fall, via Fahlgren, Columbus, Ohio, to drive Web traffic and encourage travelers to write blogs and submit their videos. In May, Florida's legislature will appropriate a budget for the state's tourism bureau. Ad spend was $15 million last year, a 67% boost over 2005, per Nielsen Monitor-Plus.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority is closely tracking how other destinations embrace social networking and will review their online strategies when the next fiscal year begins in July.
"One element I'm observing in the travel industry is that the actual referral and recommendation from consumer to consumer is very popular and has a lot of strength," said Terry Jicinsky, svp-marketing at LVCVA. "It really adds a degree of credibility to your product offerings. So if destinations can figure out a way to manage that, I think it is very intriguing and does provide a good opportunity."
Among other activations, LVCVA will enhance its Hispanic outreach by launching a Spanish language Web site.
The Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau plans to drill deeper into online networks for its fiscal 2008 strategy following an encouraging run with its "My Hawaii" promotion. HVCB asked locals to submit recommendations and photos of their favorite places, which became content on the Web site. Firefly, Honolulu, handles.
"People want to connect with people and get the local perspective on things," said Jay Talwar, svp-marketing at HVCB, which last week broke a campaign that touts the $1 billion worth of renovations being put into Waikiki. "They want that all to be authentic."
(Come as you are: For a PDF list of the top 25 ad spends among tourism and convention bureaus in 2006, click HERE.)
Inside America's Top 10 Bloggiest Neighborhoods
Since we've been tracking local bloggers in over 3,000 US neighborhoods for the past six months now, we thought it would be fun to run the numbers and finally answer the question that's been on everyone's mind: what exactly are America's bloggiest neighborhoods? The results below are based on a number of variables: total number of posts, total number of local bloggers, number of comments and Technorati ranking for the bloggers. If your neighborhood's not on the list, start a placeblog or let us know about a placeblog we're missing — we'll calculate this list again next year and let you know what's changed.
The rapidly gentrifying tree-lined blocks of 19th-century townhouses are also home to the Pratt Institute of Art.
Jonathan Butler, creator of Brownstoner, who quit his Wall Street job earlier this year to run his popular real estate and home renovation blog full-time.
Will the nearby mega-development Atlantic Yards destroy the neighborhood's quiet charm? Is the still-hot Brooklyn real estate market headed for a crash?
Emerging from a generation of economic decay, these centrally-located 19th-century Victorian row houses and their residents harbor the rich history of this "pre-Harlem center of African-American intellectual and cultural life".
An undisclosed Shaw resident behind Remaking le Slum Historique and The Shiloh Baptist Church blogs.
Will H Street's historical significance as the center of the 1968 MLK assassination riots become a fleeting memory in the wake of the multi-million dollar redevelopment plan for the area?
After the Adaptive Reuse Ordinance was passed in 1999, developers were able to swiftly convert Downtown LA's vacant commercial buildings into renovated lofts and luxury apartment complexes.
Eric Richardson, creator of blogdowntown and member of multiple neighborhood council committees.
The displacement of the homeless population, particularly in the Skid Row area.
Comprised of 13 villages that form a bedroom community of nearby Boston. Home to the various campuses of Boston College, Newton has graced the top of the FBI's annual "Safest City" study for the last five years.
Houses appear to be selling - does this mean that the Newton housing market is picking up? How is the increase of Route 9 traffic from Chestnut Hill Square going to affect the Parker Street area?
Located in one of the last remaining pockets of poverty in Chicago's North Side, it's home to a culturally diverse group of residents that have very mixed feelings about the rapid gentrification.
Don Gordon and Joe Moore's heated race for Alderman of the 49th Ward.
Previously known as the "Northwest (Industrial) Triangle", it was dubbed "The Pearl District" in the early nineties when a local compared the newly emerging artist lofts and galleries to pearls hidden within the crusty shells of this former warehouse district. The Pearl is now Portland's largest art district and has notoriously expensive real estate.
New neighborhood restaurant watch! Get Bento, Park Kitchen and Bay 13 are all on the radar this month.
An affordable alternative to its rival Boston suburbs, noted for its citizen involvement in community issues and local politics.
Lisa Williams, vocal advocate of citizen journalism, author of H2otown, and co-founder of the newly-launched Placeblogger.com
A lack of interest led to the cancellation of the Watertown High School's 2007 Girl's Softball season - will someone start a youth softball league to seed the passion of softball to a younger generation?
Residents of this legendary cultural epicenter saw gentrification catalyzed in the 1990s by new federal and city policies and the development of the $66 million Harlem USA retail complex on 125th St.
Will buildings such as the Corn Exchange continue to sit vacant and tempt vandals? Or will community leaders and real estate developers finally come to an agreement over the best way to revamp these landmarks while preserving Harlem's history?
While families lived on the hill, flatland manufacturing by firms like U.S. Steel, the Union Iron Works, the Western Sugar Refinery, Bethlehem Shipbuilding Co. and American Can Co., among others, ensured that the area remained largely industrial through most of the 20th century. But a combination of deindustrialization and the late-1990s Internet boom began driving the conversion of factories and warehouses into housing or offices.
Will the new Whole Foods, San Francisco's largest, be a foodie's dream come true or a commuter's traffic nightmare? Can the Good Life Grocery, a staple in Potrero Hill since 1974, survive the competition?
Originally an independent community that was annexed by Miami in 1925, The Grove is home to enough restaurants and open air malls to have earned it the nickname, "Miami's Food Court". An active boating contingent takes advantage of the southern border along Biscayne Bay.
Will city officials go through with the rezoning of Mercy Hospital to allow for the development of three new condominiums? Coconut Grove residents protest this "Mercy Land Rape" for fear that it will destroy their scenic vista of the historic Vizcaya house and gardens.
Travelers go and tell, tourism sites show and sell
Web sites where consumers can read travel journals and reviews of hotels, cruise ships and attractions written by fellow travelers are rapidly gaining popularity. One of the challenges now facing destination marketers is finding the best ways to mine these online consumer referrals.
The Internet has made the world a smaller place, and perhaps no category has felt that impact as much as the travel industry. Some 83% of people who travel are Web savvy compared with 71% of the general public, and by 2010, about nine in 10 travelers will conduct their search and trip planning via the Internet, per Forrester Research, Cambridge, Mass.
Web sites where consumers can read travel journals and reviews of hotels, cruise ships and attractions written by fellow travelers are rapidly gaining popularity. Among them are TripAdvisor.com, IGoUGo.com and TripPost.com .
One of the challenges now facing destination marketers is finding the best ways to mine these online consumer referrals.
"Ad speak and market speak are dead," said Dale Brill, CMO at Visit Florida, the Sunshine State's official tourism unit. "Consumers don't want to hear ad copy. They want to hear first-person from people who are out there."
Get the full story at Brandweek
TechCrunch reports "Yapta Will Be Awesome For Heavy Travelers"
Posted by The CrunchMan: 24 Apr 2007 06:09 AM CDT
I don't know what it is about Seattle and travel startups, but newcomer Yapta now joins Farecast and TripHub, two other startups we've been tracking from that cold, rainy place.
I saw a pre-launch demo of the company yesterday from co-founder and CEO Tom Romary. The site, which should launch around May 15, helps users find deals on flights and (later this year) hotels.
Yapta is very different from other travel sites. It is not hooked up directly to airlines' systems (as Expedia and Oribitz are), nor is it essentially a search engine for low fares like Farecast. Instead, they're using some of the ideas behind del.icio.us and bookmarking to create a potentially compelling new way for people to search for cheap flights.
The core of the Yapta service is a browser bookmarklet or addon that lets users "bookmark" fares that they find on major travel sites. At launch, ten airline and travel sites will be supported, many more will be added over time. See a flight you are interested in and bookmark it. The flight and fare information is then stored in your account at Yapta.
Find a number of different flight options at different sites, and then go back to Yapta to compare them. This is particularly useful when you fly Southwest or Jetblue, which do not provide flight information to other services. If the fare increases or decreases before you make a purchase, that will be reflected on the Yapta site.
If you make a purchase by clicking through to the airline or travel site from Yapta, they'll continue to monitor the price. If it falls, they'll ping you and suggest you contact the airline for a refund or flight coupon. All airlines offer these on price drops but few consumers follow up. Yapta will help by reminding you.
The company has quite a few sources of revenue. They collect affiliate fees from most airlines and sites if the user clicks through and purchases a previously bookmarked flight. There will be some advertising on the site, and Yapta will offer information on Travelzoo-like "deals" to users who opt in. Finally, for customers who are eligible to receive flight coupons for price drops, Yapta will offer to do all the work to get the coupon for a 10% fee (or a flat yearly subscription fee of $40).
In beta testing with 275 users over the last several months, Yapta found that 34% of purchased tickets became eligible for a refund. The average refund was 16% of the ticket price, or $85. During the beta period that worked out to a total of $28,900 in aggregate potential refunds, or about $100 per beta user. If Yapta can successfully tap into this refund pool and get a share, the numbers look good. More importantly, this is a great service for consumers, who rarely even bother to check for price drops. Users can also use just this feature of Yapta by entering in the flight information on the Yapta site - they are not required to use the Yapta service for research or buying beforehand. For a lot of users, just this one aspect of the service will be very compelling.
I know I'll be using it.
See Erick Schonfeld for more. He also saw the Yapta demo and wrote about it a couple of days ago.
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Fast-Food Cities
In 2006, 59% of fast-food users in Greenville, N.C., patronized a quick-service restaurant 12 or more times a month (nearly three times a week), making it the No. 1 market for frequent fast-food users in the U.S. Portland, Maine, ranked last, with only a 27% incidence of heavy QSR users.
Notably, three of the Top 10 markets are in the Carolinas and three are in Texas. The remaining leaders are located in the southeast United States and Oklahoma. Indeed, none are north of the Mason-Dixon line.
The average of all 61 markets studied was 42%. Here are the cities that ranked above 42%:
| City | % |
|---|---|
| Greenville NC | 59 |
| McAllen TX | 58 |
| Memphis TN | 55 |
| Oklahoma City OK | 55 |
| Charleston/ Huntington WV | 55 |
| Greensboro NC | 54 |
| Columbia SC | 54 |
| Birmingham AL | 52 |
| El Paso TX | 52 |
| San Antonio TX | 52 |
| Dallas TX | 51 |
| Charlotte NC | 50 |
| Knoxville TN | 50 |
| Louisville KY | 49 |
| Lexington KY | 49 |
| Houston TX | 49 |
| Indianapolis IN | 49 |
| Raleigh/Durham NC | 49 |
| Nashville TN | 48 |
| Atlanta | 48 |
| Columbus OH | 48 |
| Waco TX | 47 |
| Baton Rouge LA | 47 |
| Greenville/ Spartanburg SC | 47 |
| Kansas City MO | 47 |
| Los Angeles | 46 |
| New Orleans | 46 |
| St. Louis MO | 46 |
| Fresno/Visalia CA | 45 |
| Austin TX | 45 |
| Savannah GA | 44 |
| Jacksonville FL | 44 |
| Las Vegas | 44 |
| Chicago | 44 |
| Phoenix | 43 |
Turn Customers Into Guests Says Hotelier Tisch
The book salutes Urban Outfitters for harnessing "the power of welcome to attract customers." The retailer, for example, doesn't limit its offerings to clothes. The managers start with what interests their customers and assembles a collection of items that will appeal, such as furniture, jewelry, housewares and music.
To keep people interested, the look of a store is constantly tweaked with daily shipments of new merchandise and twice-monthly store redesigns. Other organizations might want to consider fresh Web site content every week, a regularly updated newsletter or even a redesign of their logo. Tisch and Weber also offer short profiles of Commerce Bank, In-N-Out Burger; and Duke University Medical Center.
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Facebook goes under the knife
Social-networking sites gets a face-lift, unveiling new features after soliciting feedback from tens of thousands of its users.
Story Copyright © 2007 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
Published: April 11, 2007, 6:10 AM PDT
Facebook, which has seen explosive growth relative to rival social networking sites since a membership crisis six months ago, is set to unveil new features on Wednesday that mark its progress from a dating site for college kids into a mainstream network tool.
The Palo Alto-based site founded three years ago by then Harvard undergraduate Mark Zuckerberg, 22, has been quietly introducing new features by soliciting feedback from tens of thousands of users, seeking to avoid abrupt product releases.
Facebook, the No. 2 U.S. social network after News Corp.'s MySpace.com, met with a sudden privacy backlash from its users last September after introducing a design that revealed more personal information about people than many wanted known.
But after a rapid response to online protests that involved hundreds of thousands of its members, Facebook subsequently saw its growth explode to 18 million active users from around 7.5 million active users before the membership crisis.
On Wednesday, Facebook is introducing new features designed to simplify how people navigate through individual member profiles to keep tabs on friends and associates. It will offer so-called portal pages that give people a bird's eye view of groups they belong to and of possible groups they might join.
"You can only see the networks you are in and the networks you would be able to join," Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, said in a phone interview.
Facebook counts more than 19 million registered users across 47,000 regional, work-related, college or high-school networks. The site's popularity is tied to the control users have over what other members see, which discourages members from cloaking their identify in the anonymity of many sites, so much so that many members post their mobile phone numbers.
Seeking to avert any new surprises for its members, Facebook has invited more than 100,000 users to comment on the site's redesigned features over the past several weeks.
The feedback led Facebook to make changes to the final product, including giving people the ability to control whether an event or group is publicized on the community portal pages that connect together member profiles in any Facebook sub-network.
"A lot of the changes are very subtle. We make small changes instead of huge things," Zuckerberg said.
Office workers and other older users have been allowed to join Facebook networks , not just college or high school students tied to particular schools or universities. More than 50 percent of people are outside of college, Zuckerberg said of the change.
Data from traffic measurement firm ComScore Networks confirms that Facebook's growth has surged since its stumble in September. Visitors to Facebook have jumped 75 percent since then to 24.8 million worldwide in February. Off a far larger base, MySpace grew 26 percent to 98.5 million visitors in the same period.
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Fwd: Your Dotherightthing Company Rankings
From: dotherightthing announcements
Date: Apr 10, 2007 7:20 AM
Subject: Your Dotherightthing Company Rankings
More customized updates are on their way... until then, we wanted to share your rankings of ten more companies, based on your stories and impact ratings.
Rankings, as of April 10th, 2007 12 AM PST
- Dunkin' Brands, Inc. 133
- Whole Foods Market 122
- Apple 105
- Google 101
- Starbucks 95
- Microsoft 88
- Wal-Mart 85
- Exxon Mobil 68
- Yahoo 54
- Disney 51
- Young's seafood 42
- GoDaddy 37
- Sony 32
(Note: only 13 companies have completed evaluations)
Not what you expected? Rankings are based on the stories and ratings you submitted to the site. If a company's social performance rating appears off, you can influence its rating by sharing additional information about the impacts of the company and rating existing stories that you find important.
Click here to read about how the rankings work
Companies with 15 days remaining until Dotherightthing Performance scores are revealed:
Ford Motor Company
News Corporation
General Motors
Virgin Group
Tesco
IKEA
Royal Dutch Shell
Best Buy
Virgin Group
Ford Motor Company
Kimberly-Clark
This important announcement was sent to all dotherightthing.com members, as part of our commitment to keeping you informed on major changes to the site (soon these will be much more customizable).
Monday, April 09, 2007
Google Blogs Alert for: Raw Energy
Willingness to lead versus unwillingness to be led
By Jack Krupansky(Jack Krupansky)
Alas, escaping from being led is not a great substitute for actually leading and I grossly underestimated the motivation, passion, discipline, and raw energy needed to actually lead rather than to simply avoid being led. ...
Entrepreneurial Engineering - http://entengr.blogspot.com/index.html
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
uniqueepitome .blogspot .com
As mentioned last year ( I'm really not ready to say that yet ), I'll be listing some of the great blogs that I've come to read through MyBlogLog. First time around, I only mentioned one blog. Mainly because Brian greeted me with open parenthesis and a link when I joined MyBlogLog. Since then, we've done two link exchanges and I've been steadily receiving about 10-15 hits per week from his blog alone. That's pretty impressive for this heavy turd of a blog. But then, it's a link with the word breasts in it, so I'm not sure how impressed I am with the pervs tainting my sphere of influence as MyBlogLog says. Anyhow, this time around your getting five blogs. Deal with it, enjoy it, I do.
1. Designers Who Blog. Authored by Catherine Cat Morley. I have a feeling this is one busy lady. Check out the blog, it's full of great design blogs from designers from every discipline. And it's updated almost daily. Soon she'll have her own social network of designers. Crazy man.
But a great read.
Linked to that is the infamous ( famous? ) NO SPEC blog. That's right, they don't speculate. Just kidding. The site is devoted to the accurate and demonstrable position of designers who refuse to do spec work.
For the most part I agree. It's guess work. It cheats clients of an effective and original design, while cheating the designers themselves of their own talents. It reduces the market value of design and it's integrity as a legitmate professional practice.
2. Adverteasment. Online television news. "When the Internet becomes TV, and the TV becomes the Internet, you will have here a compendium of what led up to that moment."
Authored by Andrew. He's male and addicted to stuff. No seriously, it says so in his profile. I think he's trying to figure out the difference between psychosis and paranoia, and how marketing can induce them. OK, I'm just kidding. "Cognitive Dissonance" & "Didactic Marketing," is what it says in his profile. Check it out. I know the answers he's looking for too, I'm not tell'in 'em tho.
3. Brett Petersel."Internet Rants & Raves." I like to drop by just for the random dish of topics. The site is very nicely designed as well. It's clean. 8)
I'm jealous too.
4. Five Blogs Before Lunch, Authored by Dave Ibsen. "The weblog companion of 5 meetings Before Lunch marketing consultancy." Now, I'm not sure what kind of readership they have outside of Mybloglog but, I really dig this blog. It always has fresh content and–well it's closely related to my professional interests. I usually find something no one else is writing. Which for me, is the best thing about blogging.
5. Finally-A Bowl of Stupid Yeah. I know, it's a fun name. Appropriate for some of us too. That's what drew me there in the first place–wait, what I meant was–ah never mind. This is a great blog. I stop by daily for my helping. It's Authored by Matthew, he's male and lives in Florida. That's all I know. I laugh out loud sometimes too.
There it is. Five more blogs from–yet another social networking blog. Which ironically, by defenition every blog is a social network. As long as your writing for something greater than yourself, it's a social network.
Sunday, April 01, 2007
Zagat to write hotel reviews for priceline.com
March 21, 2007
Zagat will create exclusive online hotel reviews for priceline.com customers to access for free. Zagat Survey information will be available on priceline.com for hotels, restaurants and attractions in the United States and select international locations.
Priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN) today announced an agreement with Zagat Survey, LLC, under which Zagat will create exclusive online hotel reviews for priceline.com customers to access for free.
Zagat Survey information will be available for hotels, restaurants and attractions in the United States and select international locations. The Zagat information, combined with traveler reviews provided by priceline.com customers, covers over 600 cities and thousands of hotels, restaurants and attractions.
"Zagat is the world's leading provider of reliable and trusted survey-based travel information and Priceline.com is pleased to be the only travel reservation site to feature free Zagat ratings and reviews," said Brett Keller, priceline.com's Chief Marketing Officer. "We believe that Zagat's survey-based hotel reviews, combined with priceline.com's proprietary hotel star rating system and our growing database of reviews written by priceline.com customers who also have stayed at these properties, make priceline.com a premier destination for shopping and comparing top-brand hotels and prices."
Mr. Keller added, "We are also pleased to include Zagat Survey's reviews in the new Priceline Destination Guides. In addition to Zagat, these guides to popular cities around the world include travel reviews from priceline.com customers. With this rich blending of information and opinions, you can plan an exciting trip that includes the best restaurants, sights and attractions that a city has to offer."
Under the exclusive online content agreement announced today, Zagat will provide priceline.com with:
Zagat Survey's independent hotel reviews that include numerical ratings for a hotel's rooms, service, dining and facilities, along with a commentary on the property. Zagat ratings already appear for many hotels, and that number is expected to grow in the future. The Zagat hotel reviews are offered in addition to the information provided by priceline.com's proprietary hotel star rating system, hotel photographs, maps and descriptions, and the hotel traveler reviews provided by priceline.com customers who have stayed at the properties. Zagat reviews are incorporated throughout priceline.com's hotel shopping service.
The Priceline Destination Guides, Powered By Zagat Survey. This handy online travel guide features a useful combination of commentary and reviews supplied by Zagat and priceline.com's own customers. They'll tell you what not to miss, and what to pass up. The guide dishes on an area's top eateries – all the way from unpretentious corner bistros and pizzerias to ultra-trendy restaurants. Want some place to work off your meal? The Priceline Guide reviews various types of attractions, including museums, nightclubs, sports venues, sightseeing spots, historical landmarks and more.
Coming Soon – Printable Zagat Travel Capsules. Once available, these city-specific guides will be electronically delivered free of charge to priceline.com customers who have booked trips to top travel destinations. The printable Travel Capsules will feature Zagat ratings and reviews for restaurants, hotels, nightlife, attractions and shopping.
