What People REALLY Look at in Australian Tourism

The usage statistics we've collected as a result of our DVD-ROM release (see post below from 22/11) have been compiled into a brief but very interesting report and released to the tourism industry. The information is purely quantitative, it tells us how many people looked at what regions and locations, but that in itself tells a story. One that's been picked up by quite a few newspapers around the country. To view the complete report, (PDF format) just click the link below. Distribution Report

PleaseTakeMeTo all over You Tube

Our regional videos have now been posted on You Tube for just on 12 months. In that time they’ve been viewed almost 200,000 times. That’s a lot of people from around the world beginning to get an idea of just what a magnificent place Australia really is.

We’re now adding more location videos and will eventually have more than 1200 accessible through You Tube.

PleaseTakeMeTo.com videos are also now appearing on an increasing number of

Major Site Upgrades

PleaseTakeMeTo.com has just been dramatically upgraded to make finding what you’re interested in faster and easier. In fact, one of our new navigation tools is a pull down menu entitled ‘I am interested in’ with a number of options to select from. We’ve also integrated Google maps into the site in a way that delivers much more than any other site we’ve seen (see below).

You can still take in the vast

Getting More From Google Maps

Google maps are becoming ubiquitous on line. And for good reason. But PleaseTakeMeTo.com has taken now them further and provided better value for the user than anyone else we’ve seen.

You can use a Google map in PleaseTakeMeTo.com to not only pinpoint locations on the macro and micro scale (all our advertisers have markers) and to check out if a ‘beachfront property’ really IS a beachfront property, but to

PleaseTakeMeTo.com Enables RoamFree

Operators who’ve signed up with RoamFree.com will soon be able to receive bookings through PleaseTakeMeTo.com.

Users of PleaseTakeMeTo.com will find accommodation venues that exactly suit them, then be able to check availability and make bookings instantly and seamlessly through the RoamFree system. This move is part of our ongoing efforts to provide the consumer with ever more options - and to keep them coming back for more.

Operator Insight - Rebecca Giglia, Bounce Walking Tours, Sydney

Our Operator Insight segment is designed to give people in the business a view on how other people in the business work; their inspiration, their challenges and their plans for the future - with an emphasis on marketing. That goes for tourism operators large and small, traditional and not so traditional. This time around we spoke to a very interesting smaller operator, Rebecca Giglia of Bounce Walking Tours, Sydney.

Next major distribution - Tasmania

Another 15,000 PleaseTakeMeTo.com DVD-ROMs will be hitting the streets through the Sunday Tasmanian on September 30th, 2007. This distribution will be supported by mainstream advertising on television, radio, in the Hobart Mercury and in point of sale. This follows on from the success of the Sunday Telegraph (N.S.W.) distribution. We hope to announce more newspaper based distributions of the disk in the coming weeks.

Tens of Thousands Discover Home with PleaseTakeMeTo.com

Our revolutionary web linked tourism DVD-ROM has engaged tens of thousands of Australians in the weeks following its release through The Sunday Telegraph.

The giveaway has been an overwhelming success. In the first week alone following the PleaseTakeMeTo.com DVD-ROM giveaway, our stats show that more than 20,000 unique users spent an average of 20 minutes exploring the disk’s wealth of video, photographs and information. Unique users from that distribution now