The Huffington Post Launches
HuffPost Travel
Online ‘Hub’ Features
News, Opinion, Advice,
Photos And Inspiration
From Around the World
STARWOOD HOTELS &
RESORTS IS LAUNCH SPONSOR
New York, NY, July 21, 2010 -- The
Huffington Post (“HuffPost”), a leading social news and opinion
site, today announces the launch of “HuffPost Travel” (www.huffingtonpost.com/travel/),
a new section featuring up-to-the-minute travel news, travel tips and
advice, deals, reviews of hotels, cruises, spas, and airlines,
compelling photographs, blog posts about travel, and more. HuffPost
Travel offers essays and photo diaries conveying the diversity and
joys of travel. The section is edited by Kate Auletta. Starwood Hotels &
Resorts is launch sponsor. Arianna Huffington, co-founder and
editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, made the announcement.
“I’m delighted that
we’re adding a lively travel section to the HuffPost mix,” said
Arianna Huffington. “Some of my happiest -- and most enriching --
moments have come through travel: my first trip out of Athens when I was
11 (to Paris); my first trip to America when I was 16; traveling around
India at 17, riding third-class, but getting a first-class education.
So we want HuffPost Travel to be both practical (hot deals,
travel tips, hotel reviews) and inspiring -- a reminder that travel can
be a great way to unplug and recharge, and also to learn and grow. And
our community will be a big part of the section, offering tips, sending
in photos, and posting reviews. HuffPost Travel is a great
addition to our site.”
HuffPost Travel
spotlights
travel coverage from around the world -- from urban jungles to desert
oases. The section has last-minute getaway ideas, holiday travel tips,
exotic travel ideas and ideas for exploring closer to home.
HuffPost
Travel
presents travel poetry and prose written through the ages, in addition
to spectacular images from around the world.
HuffPost Travel
taps into the wealth of knowledge and opinion of HuffPost’s loyal
community which is encouraged to contribute to the section, offering
tips and photos, and favorite destinations and hideaways. Bloggers
appearing on HuffPost Travel include: Scott Conant, Philippe
Cousteau, Kimberly Ovitz, Melissa Biggs-Bradley, Mario Batali, and Andre
Balasz.
Said Kate Auletta, “My
goal is to make HuffPost Travel a go-to resource for all things
travel. The site will be a marketplace of exciting ideas, travel essays,
useful information and arresting photography. I’m especially excited to
embark on this journey with the help of HuffPost’s loyal and
opinionated community.
Starwood Hotel &
Resorts’ sponsorship of the launch of HuffPost Travel includes
display ads and social sharing tools. The campaign also includes
sponsored slideshows and a branded Twitter hashtag appearing as part of
a customized social sharing tool on HuffPost.
Said of David Marr, SVP
Brand Management North America for Starwood Hotels & Resorts: “HuffPost’s
educated and savvy readers are an appealing group for Starwood Hotels &
Resorts, as our customers are sophisticated and have high expectations
when it comes to travel. We’re looking forward to engaging with
HuffPost readers, from inviting them to vote on our slideshows to
using HuffPost to insert the Starwood Hotel & Resorts brand into
the social stream -- from HuffPost Travel to Twitter and Facebook.”
About The Huffington Post:
The
Huffington Post (www.huffingtonpost.com)
is a leading social news and opinion site which in four and a half years
has become an influential and oft-quoted media brand --"The Internet
Newspaper." The site has coverage of politics, media, business,
entertainment, living, style, sustainable “green” living, world news,
technology, nonprofits, college life, books, religion, food, arts and
comedy, and is a top destination for news, blogs and original content.
The Huffington Post ("HuffPost") has over 30 million
unique visitors per month (source: Google Analytics) and is the
most-linked-to blog on the Internet, per Technorati. In 2008, the site
launched its first local version, HuffPost Chicago; HuffPost New York,
HuffPost Denver and HuffPost LA launched in 2009. The
Huffington Post has an active community, with over 2.5 million
comments made on the site each month. HuffPost Social News
launched in 2009 to leverage the power of social networking to allow
readers to create their own personalized social networking-like news
pages on HuffPost itself. The Huffington Post Twitter Edition
launched in 2010. HuffPost has 6,000 bloggers -- from politicians
and celebrities to academics and policy experts -- who contribute in
real-time on a wide-range of topics making news today. Among those who
have blogged on HuffPost are Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Larry
David, Nora Ephron, Larry Page, Madeleine Albright, Robert Redford, Neil
Young, Rahm Emanuel, Albert Brooks, Mia Farrow, Russ Feingold, Al
Franken, Ari Emanuel, Gary Hart, Edward Kennedy, Harry Shearer, John
Kerry, Bill Maher, Nancy Pelosi, Madonna, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ryan
Reynolds, Craig Newmark, Alec Baldwin, Donna Karan, Kenneth Cole and
Donatella Versace. A comprehensive list of the contributors to The
Huffington Post can be found in its blogger index:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/index/
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