Yell.com Launches World Travel Guides - 8 August 2001
Yell.com has joined up with Columbus Publishing to launch a series of world travel guides for www.yell.com/travel. The comprehensive guides provide Yell.com users with in-depth information on around 250 countries from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.The new service includes maps and information on health, money, accommodation and transport, as well as invaluable advice on passport and visa requirements. Profiles for each country on business, political and social areas are also available.
The guides form part of the overall Yell.com travel section (www.yell.com/travel), which enables users to plan their trips, book insurance, car hire, hotels and flights and find last minute holiday deals. Other services include a five-day world-wide weather forecast, currency converter, a brochure ordering service and travel shop.
Nick Harknett, General Manager of Yell.com, comments: "The new travel guides provide Yell.com users with impartial and up-to-date information for business and leisure travel. The arrangement with Columbus Publishing gives us the opportunity to further enhance our offering, ensuring that Yell.com/travel is the perfect destination for any travel related advice."
Tom Pitman, New Media Director of Columbus, said: "We are delighted to be chosen by Yell.com to produce their destination guides and believe that the combination of our unrivalled travel content and Yell.com’s unmatched listing service provides their users with a unique and very useful product for planning their trip."
