Travel Blog May Archive

Travel Insurance Can Save Your Life

By Brian White at 05/28/07 09:23

Travel insurance used to be the best kept secret of backpackers and corporate types alike, until the masses went and half-ruined it for the rest of it, but it's still half-fantastic and nothing you should even think about missing.

Check it out, if you're going overseas, specifically to a place where you don't consider the health care systems less than modern, this insurance can do more than save you money, it can save your life.

For the low price of maybe $10 to $50 per day, you can buy a policy that will afford you emergency airlift from anywhere in the world back to a first-world medical nation, and all for a couple-dozen bucks a day.

If you are traveling, don't short-change yourself. I cracked the bridge of my nose in Shanghai, China some years back, and had no way of fixing it. Luckily, I was able to go home purple-in-the-eyes and infected in the sinus area. Should have not been so cheap with myself, you know?

Cheap car rentals in Shenzhen Interview

What is the name of your Blog?

Cheap car rentals in Shenzhen

What is your name?

JIM

Where are you from? (include country, state and/or city)

Shenzhen guangdong china

What is your current age or age range?

27

What is the url of your blog?

Cheap car rentals in Shenzhen

Fiancee Visa Interview

Name of your website?

Fiancee Visa

Your name?

Brian

Your Location (city, etc)

bangkok

When did you start your website and why?

I started my website in year 2003 to provide best immigration services to Thai Girls for their K1 Fiancee Visa & k3 Spouse vis to US

Please give us a short summary of your website, business model, etc

We are Fiancee & Marriage Visa Lawyers Immigration attorney, specializing in K1 fiancee visa and K3 spousal visa for Thai Girls to US. Located in Bangkok, Thailand.

What has been the most difficult part of creating and running your website?

To search Backlinks for my website

What has been the easist part of operating your website?

Reading & Writing Emails

Who maintains your website and why?

Vips or Web Manager to provide best results

Tell us how your business has benefitted from your website?

Most of clients search for best lawyers to provide K1 visa and K3 Spouse visa to US specially for Thai girls, they find us on search engines and they read the testimonials. And finally they contact us for our services.

What are your views on ecommerce and the future of the internet?

Ecommerce and Internet are the best solution around the world to get and provide services to all.

What are your views on Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?

SEO is the best solution to providing best services (Websites with their products etc) around the world for particular keyword on searcg engines.

What are your views on Search Engines? Have they helped or hindered your website?

yes all search engines are good to promote websites, if you need the top search engine rank, you must submit website to search engines.

What method has been most successful for promoting your website?

BackLinks from excellent ranked pages and search engine submission

What method has been least successful for promoting your website?

Advertising

What is your website address?

Fiancee Visa

ACTIVE TOURS PAKISTAN Interview

Name of your website?

ACTIVE TOURS PAKISTAN

Your name?

Karim Uddin

Your Location (city, etc)

Islamabad Pakistan

When did you start your website and why?

I started, my web-site on october 2005 to promote tourism in our country, beacause pakistan is a land of rich culture and northern areas of pakistan is really fasinating landscape, likely mountain, waterfalls glaciers, beautiful valley at the botum of mountain, So here i am representing as ground agent to show and exchange our multi-cultural with our valuable clinets.

Please give us a short summary of your website, business model, etc

Discover Incredible Pakistan at ACTIVE TOURS PAKISTAN, one of leading tour operating compnies based in Islamabad, Pakistan. which offer and operate mountaineering expeditions, trekking, jeep safaries, mountain biking, cultural/historical tours, media teams, student tours, sport tours, overland trips to China, India & Iran.

What has been the most difficult part of creating and running your website?

Well, i am from the really remote area and only problem i faced to financiallly.

What has been the easist part of operating your website?

Ineternet is only source through wwhich we can present & show our country and create more interest for stranger travelers

What was your biggest mistake?

I think i am trusting at people with knowing someone

Who maintains your website and why?

I am maitianing my web-site

Tell us how your business has benefitted from your website?

Well, i am at the initail stage and hopefully i will get more and more business in time to come. and also through your kind supervison, i mean if you add my link i think this will be great chance to attract more clients.

What are your views on ecommerce and the future of the internet?

ABout ecommerce and the internet, i just want to say that it is tool that we been able to reduce distances and through it we been unite. And in future, i am sure we will be like in same home where we can talk live.

What are your views on Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?

Search egnie play a vital role to provide all basic information the form of web-sites and how to promote the business for the web-site users/holders.

What are your views on Search Engines? Have they helped or hindered your website?

I am 100% assure you all that search engines helps our web-site

What method has been most successful for promoting your website?

I think giving right and correct information, also ranking/hiting of the web at different engines from differnt countries.

What method has been least successful for promoting your website?

the method of sumit a link or link exchange

What would you like to see change with respect to the internet?

Sorry, hard to say

who written in his book Shangri La

Helton's book giving an evidance of Hunza Shangri La

What is your website address?

ACTIVE TOURS PAKISTAN

Safe Journeys Adventure Treks Interview

Name of your website?

Safe Journeys Adventure Treks

Your name?

richard struthers

Your Location (city, etc)

Edinburgh

When did you start your website and why?

This site was started 6 years ago, to give information on trekking in Nepal

Please give us a short summary of your website, business model, etc

Small group treks to Nepal, specialising in the Everest base Camp Trek

What has been the most difficult part of creating and running your website?

My website is a full time job, as we have to keep it updated, and full of relevent information, for our clients

What has been the easist part of operating your website?

Constat feed back from opur clients make it easier.

What was your biggest mistake?

Advertising in magazines ,instead of having a website

Who maintains your website and why?

Me. richard struthers

Tell us how your business has benefitted from your website?

Our business has increased ten fold, since we got our site high in search engines

What are your views on ecommerce and the future of the internet?

The only way to go

What are your views on Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?

Do it often

What are your views on Search Engines? Have they helped or hindered your website?

in general they have helped

What method has been most successful for promoting your website?

Listing in search engines

What method has been least successful for promoting your website?

Promoting in magazines

What would you like to see change with respect to the internet?

As long as it stays free, that is a good thing,for small companies

What is your website address?

Safe Journeys Adventure Treks

Dragon Car Hire Malaga Spain Interview

Name of your website?

Dragon Car Hire Malaga Spain

Your name?

Arupa

Your Location (city, etc)

Fuengirola

When did you start your website and why?

We started our website in 1997 because we felt a growing need for an online presence to help server our clients better who wished to book their car rentals in advance for Malaga Spain. After 10 years now, we realize that online booking of our cars constitutes almost 90% of all our car hire bookings and the website has grown over the years.

Please give us a short summary of your website, business model, etc

Dragoncars.com has been created primarily to cater to our regular and prospective clients looking for a car hire in Malaga Spain during their holiday here. We have been providing car hire services since 1979 and as of 2007, we have had repeat clients booking with us from the past 8 years. Since cars such as the cabrio convertible need to be booked well in advance, the website caters to our clients by providing an online booking form as well as an enquiry form. We have 4 main ways of contact at the website: 1. Automated enquiry form for getting an instant quote on the preferred car hire for the dates submitted 2. Personalised enquiry quote form responded to by our Support team via email 3. Contact Us form located in the Contact Us page 4. The Booking Form for regular clients wanting an immediate confirmed booking

We also provide our telephone, fax numbers as well as our office address on the website.

Majority of our client base is from the UK, therefore it becomes essential we have a website uptime of 100% with relevant information on our currently available car models for them.

What has been the most difficult part of creating and running your website?

The website was initially created by Tina, she's the owner of the company along with her husband and his brother. She had to learn html and graphics for this. Although we could have taken help from a website creation company, it was felt inhouse knowledge and skill sets always help server best. The 90s also did not have as much competition online as this era has, so from 2005 onwards we got a completely different layout to the website to compete better with all the car hire companies mushrooming online.

What has been the easist part of operating your website?

:) Tough question, lol. We hosted with a US company called Nova hosting and I guess the easiest part was maintaining the uptime because it was maintained by them. We knew and even now know after changing hosts, that whenever someone reaches our website directly or via search engines or otherwise, they will 99% of the time not get a 404 or that "this page is currently unavailable"

What was your biggest mistake?

I do not think there have been any big mistakes while creating the website. Just needed to be optimized later on.

Who maintains your website and why?

We have a SEO team maintaining the website at the moment, we feel it is required because all the other websites on the first page of the search engine along with our site for popular search terms are always trying to acquire more links, add more content to their site, some even resorting to paid links as we have seen. Therefore we must keep the ball rolling and maintain the website to compete with the ever growing competition. Malaga has now become a very busy airport and almsot everyone looking for a car hire nowadays does it online, there are of course a portion of our regular clients who choose to directly call us, but not maintaining search engine rankings would be a BIG mistake to lose out on business.

Tell us how your business has benefitted from your website?

We have had many more clients than the normal regular clients who had grown due to word of mouth publicity. If it were not for the website, we would have probably not grown so much in number of clientile. It is now one of the most important aspect of the business, the website.

What are your views on ecommerce and the future of the internet?

It is ever growing, we keep needing to learn more with each passing day in order to stay ahead online. For example, the recent introduction of social bookmarking sites, we had to learn who they were and submit our site to them. The future is about learning and staying ahead.

What are your views on Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?

Essential.. since it involves making the website better so that the rankings in search engines increase, that too commercial content and relevant content which prospective clients look for. As of now, more than half of our clientile reach us via the search engines, we know a drop from the first page rankings on certain keywords would probably reduce our business to half of what it is. We maintain it via SEO.

What are your views on Search Engines? Have they helped or hindered your website?

Helped very much, the website is currently catered to help them index us better so that more and more clients find us via them. That is why SEO is involved for our website.

What method has been most successful for promoting your website?

A lot of content creation and link building. But on page factor like correct html code and meta tag optimization including header tags has also been looked into.

What method has been least successful for promoting your website?

Havent really thought on this point, we have tried to implement everything that has been introduced along the way, from the introduction of the robots.txt file to the now google sitemap as well the url txt file for yahoo.. from beta to final versions of everything which would potentially increase our web presence, we've kind of tried it all. But yes, havent really found out if anything was not working for us. Sorry, couldnt really answer this question.

What would you like to see change with respect to the internet?

no paid links. healthy competition, if you are a local business compete with a well made website and dont go into shady means of beating the competition.

You can enter a question of your choice and the answer here:

Thank you :) nothing else to say.

What is your website address?

Dragon Car Hire Malaga Spain

car hire in cyprus Interview

Name of your website?

car hire in cyprus

Your name?

helena g

Your Location (city, etc)

paphos

When did you start your website and why?

2006 to rent cars online

Please give us a short summary of your website, business model, etc

Book online your car hire.

What has been the most difficult part of creating and running your website?

to receive active customers and be at top ten of google.

What has been the easist part of operating your website?

pictures

What was your biggest mistake?

to have only 1 database

Who maintains your website and why?

me it;s free

Tell us how your business has benefitted from your website?

customers income

What are your views on Search Engines? Have they helped or hindered your website?

very helpful

What method has been least successful for promoting your website?

google ads

What would you like to see change with respect to the internet?

more videos

What is your website address?

car hire in cyprus

Amritsar Travel Interview

Name of your website?

Amritsar Travel

Your name?

Sid Bains

Your Location (city, etc)

Solihull

When did you start your website and why?

We were innudated with enquires from our sister website www.amritsar.com - Amritsar Portal for a cheap and professional website for flights to Amritsar

Please give us a short summary of your website, business model, etc

Cheap Flights to Amritsar from reliable, scheduled airlines such as Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Air India and Jet Airways. Turkmenistan is an airlines which is the market leader with over 6 flights a week from the UK to Amritsar but you can't book it on the internet - hence why we set up Amritsar Travel.

What has been the most difficult part of creating and running your website?

Keeping up with all the enquiries! We are getting a lot of enquiries and we have automated it as much as possible but people still want to talk to some one for re-assurance

What has been the easist part of operating your website?

Linking with Amritsar Portal - www.amritsar.com helped to created credibility and website traffic.

What was your biggest mistake?

Trying to copy lastminute,com. For us to be successful we need to be distinctive, unique and not a me too, copy cat outfit.

Who maintains your website and why?

We do - easier to control, more dynamic, flexible and specific to ur needs.

Tell us how your business has benefitted from your website?

More traffic, better credibility, reputation and with the membership of ATOL and Travel.Travel, greater confidence for our members.

What are your views on ecommerce and the future of the internet?

It is the becoming the ONLY WAY of booking flight tickets - more convenient for our customers, more cost effective and a better service - everyone wins out.

What are your views on Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?

Critical - google generates so much traffic for us so SEO is so important.

What are your views on Search Engines? Have they helped or hindered your website?

Helped us big time - helped to promote our website but it is so disappointing that some other websites which dont even have a flight to amritsar gets listed by Google.

What method has been most successful for promoting your website?

Referral and to be honest - word of mouth and repeat passenger bookings.

What method has been least successful for promoting your website?

Google Ads = over priced and drive the wrong traffic.

What would you like to see change with respect to the internet?

More qualified and relevant directories for people to find specialist travel websites like Amritsar Travel.

What is your website address?

Amritsar Travel

Cheap car rental in shenzhen Interview

Name of your website?

Cheap car rental in shenzhen

Your name?

JIM

Your Location (city, etc)

shenzhen

When did you start your website and why?

shenzhen Car Rentals, established in 2001, is located Shenzhen, to welcome our guests upon their arrival in Shenzhen / Canton and to service all of the Guangdong province of China. To offer a safe and worry-free vacation to our clients on the roads of Guangdong.Our fleet of air-conditioned vehicles consists of a diverse range of popular rental vehicles

Please give us a short summary of your website, business model, etc

Shenzhen Car Rentals provides professional English speaking drivers (or drivers with English speaking guides)

What has been the most difficult part of creating and running your website?

shenzhen Car Rentals offer you an excellent product, at the very best price with excellent service for you and your clients' complete satisfaction.

What is your website address?

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Frank Hospitalities Interview

Name of your website?

Frank Hospitalities

Your name?

mash

Your Location (city, etc)

Delhi

When did you start your website and why?

2000

Please give us a short summary of your website, business model, etc

event planning service providers, hotel reservation in delhi, conference management in delhi, meetings arrangements, meetings arrangements in delhi, marriage ceremony arrangements delhi india, travel service providers india delhi, online india hotel reservation, international flights booking services, conference co-ordination in delhi india

What is your website address?

Frank Hospitalities