- City Discovery
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City Discovery Type Private Industry Travel Founded 2003 Headquarters 13 North Saint Clair Street, Toledo, 43604, USA Products Sightseeing tours, Travel Experiences and Ground transportation Employees 30 (2009) Website www.City-Discovery.com City Discovery is an online travel company that specializes in the ecommerce sale of sightseeing tours, travel experiences and ground transportation worldwide. City Discovery sells directly to consumers through City-Discovery.com and a network of over 7,500 travel agencies and affiliates. City Discovery is available in 13 languages and has offices in USA, France, Italy, Greece and the Philippines.[1]
Features
City Discovery sells over 5,000 travel activities in 300 destinations and offer features such as traveler reviews, wishlist, suggested itineraries and gift certificates.[2]
City Discovery has launched in November 2009 a Mobile website. Accessible from mobile phones with internet browsing capability, mobile.city-discovery.com is tailored for devices like Apple’s iPhone and RIM’s Blackberry.[3]
City Discovery claims to be one of the first in the travel industry to use Short Message Service to confirm bookings and remind customers about their booking details.[4]
They also present online videos of some of the products.[5]
City Discovery started by launching French, Italian, Spanish and German website versions to reach out European customers[6] then added Scandinavian languages (Dansk, Svenska, norsk and suomi) and Asian languages (Korean, Japanese and Chinese Mandarin). [7]
Notes
- ^ http://www.city-discovery.com/aboutUs.php
- ^ http://www.ibtimes.com/prnews/20091210/gift-of-travel-over-5000-travel-experiences-with-city-discovery-gift-certificate.htm
- ^ http://www.breakingtravelnews.com/news/article/mobile.city-discovery.com-delivers-travel-services-to-smart-phone-users/
- ^ http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/mobilecity-discoverycom-delivers-travel-services-to-smart-phone-users,1055797.shtml
- ^ http://www.pr.com/press-release/192090
- ^ http://bx.businessweek.com/business-stress-management/discover-cities-in-a-stress-free-way-with-city-discoverycom/3645593677157331297-cb0b6911da140a4f4db2b9002a0b31f1/
- ^ http://blog.city-discovery.com/word-up-we-are-multilingual/
External links
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