MSNBC on the Internet Launches New Weekly Travel Section
Will Include an Interactive Travel Toolkit Produced with Microsoft Expedia Easing Travel
Decisions to Help Research, Book and Buy Travel
NEW YORK, April 7 /PRNewswire/ -- MSNBC on the Internet ( www.msnbc.com ) has launched a new Travel section, redesigned to
help make travel planning easy. The new Travel section, produced with Microsoft Expedia.com, helps take the guesswork out of traveling.
MSNBC Travel delivers online tools for researching and planning business and leisure trips -- you can even purchase your tickets online.
The new site, sponsored by Continental Airlines, is located in the Living*Travel section and is refreshed each Tuesday morning.
Business travelers will find MSNBC Travel an especially useful resource: By using the interactive Travel Toolkit, users will be able to make
reservations, access travel news updates and weather, as well as explore background information on destinations. MSNBC travel stories
fully leverage the power of the Internet, including audio, video, interactive quizzes and wizards for booking travel. The new section also
includes destination audio reports and video clips, a travel bulletin board, travel chats, consumer travel tips, and a weekly report compiled
for the frequent business traveler. In addition, NBC's ''Today'' show Travel Editor Peter Greenberg contributes his weekly ''Travel
Detective'' column.
''This new Travel section is a great asset for business travelers who make their own arrangements,'' said Merrill Brown, editor in chief,
MSNBC on the Internet. ''The information and resources provide one-stop-shopping, as well as additional information helping with the
decision-making process when booking a trip.''
Reports include ''Wired Hotels,'' a look at the best wired hotels in America; ''Spring Travel Planner,'' a comprehensive package to help
plan springtime trips to Manhattan, the Southwest and Europe that includes stories, quizzes and slideshows; ''News Story: El Nino,
Drought and the Big Island of Hawaii: What Does it Mean for the Traveler?'' and ''Stupid Pet Trips.'' MSNBC Travel plans to showcase
destinations such as Florida, Alaska, New Zealand, Indonesia and Hawaii.
MSNBC is a partnership between NBC (NYSE: GE - news), a leading provider of news and information, and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT -
news), the leader in personal computer software and a major provider of Internet online services. Built on the worldwide resources of NBC
News, MSNBC is a 24-hour cable news network and an Internet news service at www.msnbc.com.
CONTACT: Debby Fry Wilson, MSNBC on the Internet, or debbyfry.wilson@msnbc.com, 425-703-7059; or Lloyd Trufelman,
lloydt@tryloncommunications.com, or Loren Pomerantz, lorenp@tryloncommunications.com of Trylon Communications, 212-818-9151,
for MSNBC on the Internet |
