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The tourist data of the last years testify of the new must in tourism: keep in touch with nature and look for psycho-physical wellness. More and more people choose to spend their free time in the green, listening to the stillness of the open spaces searching simplicity and emotions, tied to the pleasure of senses. Among all the green tourism offers, the farm holiday, the national Parks stays and the cycle tourism proposals stand out.
More and more people need to spend their free time in a natural context and to feel in harmony with the environment around. People look for wellness, both physical and psychological. Nature, quiet, stillness and wonderful landscapes are the new travel proposal from Italy. More and more cycling lovers decide to plan their holidays with their bicycle.
This new trend, coming from Northern Europe, has already suggested some special facilities to offer to cycle-tourists; many Italian hotels, in collaboration with local tourist agencies, have been equipped just in order to satisfy this new trend’s demand. On this wave, during the last years some hotels’ group are born with the goal to put into the tourism market a specific offer aimed to this target.
In the 2000 the Group Italy Bike Hotels has been constituted. It coordinates marketing activities and promotes the initiatives of 42 hotels from ten regions of Italy.
When a cycle tourist looks for a valid travelling proposal, entrusting the Italy Bike Hotels Group, he will find some guaranteed bicycle facilities: free cycle tourism info, cycle-maps of the holiday area, cycle-guides on demand, bicycles warehouse, bicycles rental, breakfasts, lunches and snacks with menu adapted to sportsmen, medical and mechanical assistance and specialistic laundry for sportswear.
The cycle tourist can daily create its own route or choose among those studied and collected into the free cycling-map. He can also choose among six various regional tours when he prefers a moving holiday. Italy, from the Alps to the Puglia, is improving its special offers…come and discover its beauties and news!
BBPlanetis an on-line booking site for touristic accommodations addressed to both landlords and users looking for B&B, Hotels, Holiday House, Farmhouses where to spend their holidays.
The site, on-line from 2004 and already very well established, has a plain and elegant layout, clearly carried out by specialists of the sector, and has a list of 11.500 offers – translated into 6 languages – among Bed & Breakfast,Holiday houses, Hotel and Farmhouses all over Italy. Owners of Bed & Breakfast, Holiday Houses and Hotel are offered the possibility to freely publish online their accommodation, with photos and descriptions. Moreover, it provides with an “on demand” booking service, through which the tourist can directly ask the owner of the estate about price and availability. You can complete the purchase paying online by either credit card or bank transfer directly to the bank designated by the landord, with none of your personal data being acknowledgeable to either BBPlanet or the landlord.
The tourist can count on a very large list of accommodations (about 11.500) and a fine and intuitive searching system in order to choose the best one. Each lodging has a dedicated web page divided into the following sections: “Details” – photos and exhaustive descriptions about the location and the structure, bedrooms’ arrangement, breakfast, spoken languages, room services, etc. all that a traveler wants to know about an accommodation. Including the price list. If the structure offers apartments, then, all of them are thoroughly described. “Availability” – a form where the user can directly ask the landlord about availability of both sleeping beds and dates, and the best price possible. “Map” – a map by Google Maps shows the exact position of the accommodation, in both “Map” and “Satellite” mode. “Users’ Feedback” – feedbacks and comments, with scores for several parameters of valuation, left by the previous guests.
Use impressions: BBPlanet searching system is artfully realized. Simple, intuitive and complete from all view points. Excellent is the section dedicated to the guests’ feedbacks that represents a good way to have an idea of the accommodation we are going to book besides the landlords’ assertions. Excellent is the payment system that guarantees our bank data privacy, preserving it from both BBPlanet and landlords.
Useful the report that gives us account of all our requests and bookings.
Final Evaluation The system is excellent from all points of view. It is hard to find a fault in BBPlanet. There is plenty of Accommodations, Hotels, Bed & Breakfast, Holiday House and Farmhouses with accurate information and a simply excellent research system. A site that is worth the “Top Rate” evaluation and that whoever is looking for an accommodation in Italy MUST refer to.
OnionMap.com was first created in 2003 by an avid traveler and spatial analyst named Young Kim in South Korea. After years of research and development, co-founder Xochitl Hwang adopted this concept and has been involved in global marketing and sales ever since
Over the years, Onionmap.com has established partnerships with Yahoo! Korea, Asiana Airlines, and emerging city tourism bureaus. Onionmap.com’s vision is to radically change the internet with a website that features three-dimensional (3D) replicas of world famous cities where user-generated content will combine real-time interaction with Internet services and informational web sites.
Currently, Onionmap.com offers a visually superior, user-friendly 3D platform of over 33 major cities around the world. Its advanced 3D mapping technology and design functionality provides optimized realistic platform for User Created Content (UCC) and allows immediate integration of outside website information that will guarantee the flexibility to expand to virtually unlimited online transactions.
Onionmap.com’s goal is to contain and provide extensive real time information about the city’s unique place of interests, restaurants, hotels, events, etc., while allowing users to make reservations and directly create content of their own through Onionmap.com’s blogs (a.k.a PLOGS) feature, which is also connected with the social network features called MapID. OnionMap.com’s combine features will build a complete and new portal site. It will set the trend and replace current models of conventional search engines providing more enjoyable and rich experience and create a strong online community with a local focus. It will capitalize on the unparalleled advantage of being the first-mover in creating a visual ‘information ecosystem’ in a manner similar to the different layers of an onion. You can search and find the most current and exact information, as you peel off the layers in onionmap.com.