NewOrleans.com

NewOrleans.com
NewOrleans.com LLC
Type Private company
Industry Travel Solutions
Ticketing Solutions
Online Commerce
Founded 1995
Headquarters New Orleans, LA, USA
Key people Bill Hammack, Chairman; Don Jones, Chief Executive Officer; Jimmy "Bo" White, President; Shane Brinkerhoff, Chief Technology Officer; Leigh Landeche, Vice President of Web Operations
Website www.neworleans.com

NewOrleans.com, LLC is a travel website focused on the details of traveling to and visiting New Orleans, Louisiana. The company is locally-owned and operated, with corporate offices on historic St. Charles Avenue.

The website offers New Orleans-centric travel products, including hotel rooms, hotel-plus-air packages, and swamp, plantation and city of New Orleans tours. In addition to its online travel and tour booking services, the website also has original feature travel content and visitor guides written by local experts.[1][2]

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History

NewOrleans.com launched in 1995, around the start of the commercial Internet boom.[3] Since its inception, the site has been a hospitality portal focused on providing information and services regarding touring New Orleans.[1]

In January 2011, NewOrleans.com announced a strategic partnership with VEGAS.com, recognized as the world’s largest city destination website[4][5] and named one of the "50 most popular travel Web sites" by the Chicago Tribune in 2005.[6] Incorporating VEGAS.com’s integrated travel shopping cart technology, the site re-launched in April 2011 offering booking and vacation planning services. With this new direction, NewOrleans.com combined the functionality of a city-specific online travel agency with a local web travel guide.[2][5][7] The site currently receives more than one million visitors per year.[4]

Hotel and tour booking services

NewOrleans.com allows visitors to book rooms at more than 75 New Orleans hotels, including historic New Orleans properties like The Roosevelt New Orleans Hotel, Hotel Monteleone, Le Pavillon Hotel, and Royal Sonesta New Orleans. The site also offers a variety of tours, including Mississippi riverboat tours, Cajun swamp tours, Louisiana plantation tours, and New Orleans cemetery tours.[2][4]

Travel guide

NewOrleans.com publishes original, locally-produced expert content, including articles about New Orleans restaurants, the world-class music scene, and internationally-renown festivals and events like New Orleans Mardi Gras and the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, along with user guides to attractions around the French Quarter and New Orleans, including the French Market, the National World War II Museum, and the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas.[1]

Technology

NewOrleans.com is powered by Cyllenius, the technology and solutions division of VEGAS.com. The website also maintains a bi-lingual contact center which provides 24-hour customer support and sales.[1][5]

Geodomain

Corresponding with the name of a geographic entity, the domain name NewOrleans.com is a geodomain. NewOrleans.com is a founding member of the GeoPublishers.com trade association, a non-profit organization of hundreds of top-level city, state, country, and related geographical domains.[8] Industry experts have long recognized the advantages of a top-level geodomain, including the branding and consumer recall that is inherent within the domain name, as well as its direct navigation characteristics – users simply add the suffix to the name of the geographical area to access the Internet site.[9][10]

References

  1. ^ a b c d NewOrleans.com Pivots, Launches Full-Service Vacation Booking Site – Silicon Bayou News
  2. ^ a b c Shaken and Stirred: Haunted Vacations Provide Thrills, Chills - Daily Herald (Chicago), Aug. 31, 2011
  3. ^ History of the Internet
  4. ^ a b c NewOrleans.com and VEGAS.com Partner to Design Travel Site - UpTake.com
  5. ^ a b c Big Changes Ahead for NewOrleans.com as Owners Announce New Partnership Deal With VEGAS.com – DN Journal
  6. ^ 50 Most Popular Travel Sites Have Hidden Gems - Chicago Tribune, September 11, 2005
  7. ^ NewOrleans.com Focusing on Tourism – Elliot’s Blog
  8. ^ GeoPublishers Conference off to a promising start - DomainArts.com
  9. ^ In Local Markets,The Rise of City.coms – Media Life Magazine
  10. ^ Geo Domains: No Longer the Internet's Best Kept Secret - Sedo

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