ALKHOBAR, 18 July 2006 — The temperatures are molten and with the recent upswing of violence in the Middle East many people’s vacation plans have been throw into disarray. If yours is one of those families trying to figure out a new getaway destination, take a look at the new Trip Planner from Yahoo! at http://travel.yahoo.com/trip.
The Trip Planner is an online travel research resource that helps users plan their trips, create their own customized printable travel guides, as well as share their travel experiences with friends, family and, if desired, other Yahoo! Travel users.
The shared Trip Plans have also been organized by Yahoo! Travel to create a growing interactive archive of personal travel experiences that can be used by others to plan their trips.
Trip Planner includes a range of features that allow travelers to document their personal travel experiences. These features provide users the ability to create photograph-rich travel journals, to plot their trip on an interactive map, as well as include notes, ratings and reviews regarding the destinations, hotels and points of interest they have visited.
Together, these features help travelers comprehensively record their travel experience and save it for personal archives or share it with others. Additionally, with more than 20,000 publicly viewable Trip Plans from around the world organized on an interactive map, Yahoo! Travel allows other users to research travel by learning from the trips of fellow travelers.
The Interactive Map to Search for Trip Plans at http://travel.yahoo.com/trip?action=explore is a new tool for travel inspiration, allowing users to visually explore Trip Plans across the globe on an interactive map. Key features include Top Trip Plans, as selected by the Yahoo! community, plotted on an easy-to-use interactive map. There is also dynamic pan and zoom map technology, enabling users to focus on and discover the Trip Plans most relevant to them.
For regional vacation travel, Bahrain is without a doubt one of the most popular destinations for Saudis and expatriates just taking a quick break on the weekend. If you do pop across to Bahrain, be sure to let your mobile phone roam on MTC-Vodaphone’s network so you stand a chance of winning one of two Lexus vehicles.
The first draw will be held on Sept. 16 where the prize being offered is a Lexus RX 350 and the second draw will be held on Dec. 31 offering a Lexus ES 350. The winners will be notified by phone on the number they have used to accumulate the raffle tickets. GCC and international mobile users who select the MTC-Vodafone network to roam, will automatically be granted a single raffle entry for the draw by accumulated usage of every 10 minutes of talk time (outgoing calls) or every 10 SMS messages sent. Visitors can check this information along with their ticket serial numbers by registering on MTC-Vodafone’s website at www.mtc-vodafone.com.bh.
And if you’re not going to be able to go on vacation right now, you can still have some fun at home — and perhaps win at trip, too.
BenQ-Siemens have become sponsors of Real Madrid, the FIFA-named “Best Club of the 20th Century.” The new BenQ-Siemens jersey will be the official gear of players including Ronaldo, Raul Gonzalez, Iker Casillas, Robinho and Sergio Ramos.
For the launch of the partnership, a website has been set up at www.BenQ-Siemens.com/realmadrid. The site includes a creative contest. Fans are encouraged to design their own Real Madrid football kit, take a digital photo and upload it to the site. All Real Madrid fans are able to cast votes for the most creative idea. Grand prize for the contest is a trip for two to Madrid to watch a Real Madrid match. So put your brain cells to good use and think Real!
