Travel Site Partnership Puts Convenience in Adventure

YowTRIP has launched its newest service in partnership with AdventureCentral, YowADVENTURES lets you book your adventure and find like-minded travelers to go with or hosts to stay with.

BOULDER, Colo.—May 21, 2008—Ever thought about climbing Mount Kilimanjaro? Horseback riding in Patagonia? Whitewater rafting down the Rio Grande? But got discouraged by the daunting task of putting the trip together? Now these and hundreds of other adventures are available at the click of your mouse.

YowADVENTURES is the newest service offered by YowTRIP.com, a free social platform that connects world travelers. In a partnership that combines YowTRIP's innovative travel plan matching capabilities with the adventure package offerings of Adventure Central, the Denver-based leading provider of travel distribution and online booking services for the adventure and experiential travel industry, YowADVENTURES lets you book your adventure and find like-minded travelers to go with or hosts to stay with.

The union is a seemingly natural marriage of missions, with Adventure Central working to connect the world to great adventures, and YowTRIP striving to connect world travelers. YowTRIP founder Felipe Coimbra says that's not the only reason the partnership is a perfect match for his service.

"Since its launch last September, YowTRIP has remained true to its mission of building a streamlined platform on which travelers and their connections are the focal point, not advertisements," adds Coimbra. "YowADVENTURES is a way to simultaneously generate revenue and enhance our service."

In providing the means for world travel buffs to meet and travel together, YowTRIP stands out from the crowded online travel market.

"YowTRIP is not a site for simply sharing photos or reading hotel and restaurant reviews," says Coimbra. "Every service we add is designed to encourage and enable travelers to actually meet each other, in the real world."

Other enhancements to recently hit YowTRIP include YowGROUPS, whereby users can create a group to travel with, and YowEXPERTS, which allows people with significant knowledge of a destination to offer tips and advice about traveling there. Travelers can also add blogs, photos and videos to their YowTRIP profile as they travel, and share their upcoming trips via a widget on their own website.

As a new distribution partner of Adventure Central's, YowTRIP joins the company of well-known travel booking services CheapTickets.com and Orbitz.com.

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About YowTRIP

YowTRIP is a social platform that connects you with other world travelers in your town or wherever you're traveling. Our goal is to promote cultural exchange by connecting world travelers and enabling them to share their travel experiences on this online community.

About Adventure Central

Denver-based Adventure Central is an online adventure travel distribution company. Adventure Central connects the world to great adventures by automating the distribution of trip inventory from supplier partners such as A Day Away Kayak Tours and American Adventure Expeditions and bringing new cost and time efficiencies to the market. Adventure Central's private-label offerings distributed through AdventureCentral.com and leading third-party Internet partners like Orbitz (OWW) and CheapTickets give consumers access to one of the largest selection of adventure and experiential inventory at competitive rates available online.

For more information on Adventure Central, call 303.292.5522 or visit www.adventurecentral.com.

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