.travel participated at the United Motorcoach Association's (UMA) Expo in Orlando, January 21-25. As an exhibitor, .travel was amongst 180 other travel related companies such as the American Bus Association, National Tour Association and the Mississippi Division of Tourism.

"I am pleased to have .travel take part in our expo this year," responded Victor Parra, President and CEO of the United Motorcoach Association. ".travel is a useful tool that all members of the travel and hospitality industry need to maximize their presence on the Internet".

This year's event was held at the Orange County Convention Center with over 1,000 travel industry professionals. The 4-day event highlighted educational seminars and training in fields such as Operations, Finance and Marketing Techniques.

Los Angeles, CA

DOMAINfest, the domain name industry's premier conference, will be held January 28-30 at the Renaissance Hollywood hotel in Hollywood, California. With the goal to promote and support the advancement of the domain industry, DOMAINfest brings Internet professionals and the domain industry together to learn, network, and do business.

The .travel team led by CEO, Edward A. Cespedes, is pleased to be attending the event as a Silver sponsor and looks forward to the networking opportunities and educational workshops.

As mentioned in recent articles, for the first time, premium .travel names such as City.travel, Europe.travel, Fly.travel, Free.travel, Information.travel, Kids.travel, and Pictures.travel will be auctioned at Moniker's™ live and extended online auctions at DOMAINfest Global™ on January 29, 2009.

For more information about the DOMAINfest auction, click here. To register for the DOMAINfest conference and auction, click here...

Adventure in Green with GreenSpot.travel

'Green travel' is a term that a fast-growing number of travelers are identifying with as their preferred style of seeing the world. Often seen as a very broad term, the phrase encompasses several positive ideas. "Our selection of .travel as an integrated component of our name and brand, combined with today's very identifiable meaning of the word 'green', allows travelers to easily relate our purpose and offering to the type of eco-friendly trip they're looking for, and greatly eases our ability to be seen in the green travel space online," says Richard G. Edwards, co-founder of GreenSpot.travel.

GreenSpot.travel's mission is to promote green travel throughout the world, with a focus on Costa Rica and the rest of Central America. Condé Nast Traveler magazine has cited GreenSpot.travel as one of the Top Travel Specialists in the world over the last several years for their expertise in sustainable travel and quality upscale trips to Central America. Edwards, co-founder of GreenSpot.travel with his wife Irene Edwards, says that the name itself is "a conversation starter that quickly leads to an opportunity for us to explain what we do with the interesting .travel twist". He is emphatic, though, that "the clearest advantage is in the online marketing opportunities created by having .travel in our name. We have an immediate affiliation with the travel industry, which allows us to focus on different aspects of our marketing message, knowing that our link to travel is in the URL". He believes the benefits of .travel's identification with solid travel industry members will grow as more and more respected industry organizations, tourism boards, agencies and other companies continue to adopt the .travel name.

Edwards explains that since the recent re-launch of the GreenSpot.travel site, the site has experienced a rapid rise in visits. "We now have a focus on providing information to travelers on green innovations and news and are pleased to see encouraging growth in numbers of visitors to the site, thanks to the relevancy of green travel in today's marketplace." says Edwards. Content from the site and company spokespeople on green travel-related issues has been featured recently on CNN.com, Condé Nast Traveler, TravelMole, Organic Spa magazine, National Geographic Adventure and a number of large newspapers around the U.S., and the staff members are regularly consulted by travel writers for information on the green travel wave. The GreenSpot.travel team expects to be "a top traffic site in the green travel space within a year", by continuing to reach out to the increasing number of travelers, travel writers and armchair travelers looking to make a positive impact on local environments and communities with their vacations and buying decisions. The online marketing advantages generated by having .travel in their name will help the organization accomplish their goal.

GreenSpot.travel designs green adventure and luxury trips to Costa Rica, Panama, El Salvador and Nicaragua and selects lodging and suppliers for their ecological sustainability and contribution to conservation and local communities.

If you are interested in learning more about Greenspot travel, please visit www.GreenSpot.travel

If you are looking to promote your travel business and achieve increased traffic and success, please visit www.travel.travel and register your .travel domain name(s).

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