| Vienna/Austria, 2. April 2009. A hotel in Rome, the best | | | | Tripwolf is an online travel guide of the next generation. |
| ice-cream in Naples or the hippest Club in Milan? That | | | | It was first launched in June 2008 in English and |
| and more is now available on the new Italian version of | | | | German, in March 2009 the French version followed. |
| the online Travel-Guide So far, tripwolf offers over | | | | The platform combines professionally edited content |
| 400.000 travel destinations worldwide and combines | | | | from traditional print travel guides with user-generated |
| up-to-date infos with detailed descriptions for individual | | | | content, added by thousands of members from all |
| travelers- after versions in German, English and French | | | | over the world. Users can upload photos, write blogs |
| the portal now offers it’s content also in Italian. | | | | and evaluate the info made available by the platform. |
| Around 600.000 international travel enthusiasts have | | | | At present, the tripwolf community holds around 15.000 |
| been using the only nine month old portal to gather | | | | members, of which 1000 are “Trip-Gurus”, |
| information on destinations so far. The info available | | | | designated to provide Users with in-depth info on |
| consists of a combination of professional Travel-Guide | | | | certain cities, areas or countries. |
| content by connaisseurs such as MairDumont (Dumont | | | | Please find more info and photos on the tripwolf Social |
| and Marco Polo-Guides) or the british Footprint | | | | Media Release on |
| publishing with user generated content by travelers | | | | About tripwolftripwolf ( is a Social Travel Guide that |
| and locals in the respective countries. Trip-Gurus, | | | | combines editorial with user generated content by |
| designated travel-specialists by the tripwolf team, are | | | | globetrotters from all over the world. So far, travelers |
| also part of the online-portal and share their know-how | | | | can find about 400.000 destinations and points of |
| with the travel-crowd. | | | | interest, from which they can chose and build their |
| “Italy is a country that offers many amazing | | | | personalized travel itinerary. The Online Community |
| destinations and secret spots”, says Sebastian | | | | Tripwolf, whose headquarters are located in Vienna, |
| Heinzel, CEO of tripwolf. “We made an extra effort | | | | Austria, was founded by travel-enthusiasts Sebastian |
| to launch tripwolf.com/it as fast as possible because | | | | Heinzel and Alexander Trieb. The portal launched in |
| we didn’t want to keep all that info on one of | | | | June 2008 in Englisch and German, the French Version |
| Europe’s most wanted travel-destinations from | | | | in March 2009. |
| users and travelers.” | | | | |
