NewOrleans.com, LLC is a travel website

Travel website

A travel website is a website on the world wide web, that is dedicated to travel. The site may be focused on travel reviews, the booking of travel, or a combination of both. Approximately seventy million consumers researched travel plans online in July 2006...

 focused on the details of traveling to and visiting New Orleans, Louisiana

New Orleans, Louisiana

New Orleans is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana. The New Orleans metropolitan area has a population of 1,235,650 as of 2009, the 46th largest in the USA. The New Orleans – Metairie – Bogalusa combined statistical area has a population...

. The company is locally-owned and operated, with corporate offices on historic St. Charles Avenue

St. Charles Avenue

St. Charles Avenue is a thoroughfare in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A. and the home of the St. Charles Streetcar Line. It is also famous for the hundreds of mansions that adorn the tree-lined boulevard for much of the Uptown section of the route. The southern live oak trees, particularly found in...

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The website offers New Orleans-centric travel products, including hotel rooms, hotel-plus-air packages, and swamp, plantation and city of New Orleans tours. In addition to its online travel and tour booking services, the website also has original feature travel content and visitor guides written by local experts.

History

NewOrleans.com launched in 1995, around the start of the commercial Internet

Internet

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 boom. Since its inception, the site has been a hospitality portal

Web portal

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 focused on providing information and services regarding touring New Orleans.

In January 2011, NewOrleans.com announced a strategic partnership

Strategic partnership

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 with VEGAS.com

VEGAS.com

VEGAS.com, LLC is a city specific travel website that focuses on information about Las Vegas, Nevada. The site is the 'largest online booker for entertainment, hotels, restaurants, tours, golf and other services' for Las Vegas...

, recognized as the world’s largest city destination website and named one of the "50 most popular travel Web sites" by the Chicago Tribune

Chicago Tribune

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 in 2005. Incorporating VEGAS.com’s integrated travel shopping cart technology

Shopping cart software

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, the site re-launched in April 2011 offering booking and vacation planning services. With this new direction, NewOrleans.com combined the functionality of a city-specific online travel agency with a local web travel guide. The site currently receives more than one million visitors per year.

Hotel and tour booking services

NewOrleans.com allows visitors to book rooms at more than 75 New Orleans hotels, including historic New Orleans properties like The Roosevelt New Orleans Hotel, Hotel Monteleone

Hotel Monteleone

Hotel Monteleone is a family-owned and operated hotel located at 214 Royal Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans. The hotel includes the only high-rise building in the interior French Quarter and is well known for its Carousel Piano Bar & Lounge, a rotating bar.Built in 1886 in the Beaux-Arts...

, Le Pavillon Hotel

Le Pavillon Hotel

The Le Pavillon Hotel is a luxury hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was originally named the Denechaud, then for generations was the De Soto Hotel.Le Pavillon was placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the U.S. Department of the Interior in 1991....

, and Royal Sonesta New Orleans. The site also offers a variety of tours, including Mississippi riverboat

Riverboat

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 tours, Cajun

Cajun

Cajuns are an ethnic group mainly living in the U.S. state of Louisiana, consisting of the descendants of Acadian exiles...

 swamp

Swamp

A swamp is a wetland with some flooding of large areas of land by shallow bodies of water. A swamp generally has a large number of hammocks, or dry-land protrusions, covered by aquatic vegetation, or vegetation that tolerates periodical inundation. The two main types of swamp are "true" or swamp...

 tours, Louisiana plantation

Plantation

A plantation is a long artificially established forest, farm or estate, where crops are grown for sale, often in distant markets rather than for local on-site consumption...

 tours, and New Orleans cemetery

Cemetery

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 tours.

Travel guide

NewOrleans.com publishes original, locally-produced expert content, including articles about New Orleans restaurants, the world-class music scene

Music of New Orleans

The music of New Orleans assumes various styles of music which have often borrowed from earlier traditions. New Orleans, Louisiana is especially known for its strong association with jazz music, universally considered to be the birthplace of the genre. The earliest form was dixieland, which has...

, and internationally-renown festivals and events like New Orleans Mardi Gras

New Orleans Mardi Gras

Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Louisiana, is a Carnival celebration well-known throughout the world.The New Orleans Carnival season, with roots in preparing for the start of the Christian season of Lent, starts after Twelfth Night, on Epiphany . It is a season of parades, balls , and king cake parties...

 and the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, along with user guides to attractions around the French Quarter

French Quarter

The French Quarter, also known as Vieux Carré, is the oldest neighborhood in the city of New Orleans. When New Orleans was founded in 1718 by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, the city was originally centered on the French Quarter, or the Vieux Carré as it was known then...

 and New Orleans, including the French Market

French Market

The French Market is a market and series of commercial buildings in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.It stretches just inland from the Mississippi River in the section of the French Quarter downriver from Jackson Square, with the famous Café du Monde at the upriver end, down to the...

, the National World War II Museum

National World War II Museum

The National World War II Museum, formerly known as the National D-Day Museum, is a museum located in the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana, at the corner of Andrew Higgins Boulevard and Magazine Street. It focuses on the contribution made by the United States to victory by the...

, and the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas.

Technology

NewOrleans.com is powered by Cyllenius, the technology and solutions division of VEGAS.com. The website also maintains a bi-lingual contact center which provides 24-hour customer support and sales.

Geodomain

Corresponding with the name of a geographic entity, the domain name

Domain name

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 NewOrleans.com is a geodomain

Geodomain

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. NewOrleans.com is a founding member of the GeoPublishers.com trade association, a non-profit organization

Non-profit organization

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 of hundreds of top-level city, state, country, and related geographical domains. Industry experts have long recognized the advantages of a top-level geodomain, including the branding

Brand management

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 and consumer recall that is inherent within the domain name, as well as its direct navigation characteristics – users simply add the suffix

Suffix

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to the name of the geographical area to access the Internet site.

External links

• NewOrleans.com
• NolaNiteLife.com (affiliate of NewOrleans.com)
• Dining.NewOrleans.com (sub-site of NewOrleans.com)