Galveston.com Launches New Web Features for On-the-Go Customers

GALVESTON, TEXAS; Feb. 19, 2007 - Visitors to Galveston Island, Texas can now access essential information, including continuously-updated AccuWeather, lodging, cuisine, nightlife, and shopping - when they need it and wherever they are - through any web-enabled mobile device simply by clicking to galveston.com.

Thanks to a recently installed technology upgrade, Galveston.com visitors can tap into the most popular areas of galveston.com in a streamlined format optimized for mobile devices, such as Blackberry®, Treo™ or web-enabled cell phones.

“This technology upgrade places GALVESTON.COM & COMPANY at the cutting-edge of communications technology, and offers potential Galveston Island visitors an unmatched level of information,” said Galveston.com & Company Vice-President and Chief Creative Officer Jim Cordell.

GALVESTON.COM customers now have the power to scan up-to-the-minute tourism information, find out the best places to shop in Galveston, choose a restaurant or bar to visit while on the Island, or pinpoint a particular hotel, condo, or bed & breakfast to visit while in town - all while using their portable phone or other mobile device.

“Through this state-of-the-art enhancement, we are offering Galveston visitors and potential visitors the resources they need - at their fingertips - to make informed decisions and identify their best travel options,” said Cordell.

For maximum convenience, visitors can continue to use the same URL for the website that they already know—www.galveston.com. The system automatically provides optimized on-the-go content when a customer logs on using a mobile device.

Galveston.com completed a 3-year redesign of its internet version in March 2006, and features a host of features, interactivity, and functionality that was only imagined when the company first bowed in the fall of 1994.

Rich with interactive polls, a robust message board, audio and video podcasts (the first Convention & Visitors Bureau-related website in the world to offer such), RSS feeds, the Galveston.com NewsWire offering news from sources worldwide, tourism-related member pages for local businesses, continuously-updated AccuWeather, city-wide megapixel webcams,  personalized itinerary builder, “one-click” expandable navigation, and complete interactive reservations for lodging, cruises, cruise parking, and airport transfers, the full web version of Galveston.com is quite unlike any other destination portal in the United States.

For more information, contact Galveston.com & Company at via phone (409)763-8676 or email at websites@galveston.com.

About Galveston.com &  Company

Galveston.com & Company, Inc. is a destination marketing corporation based in Galveston, Texas. The company specializes in destination portals, as well as online lodging, cruise, parking, and transfer reservations via its proprietary DestinationNext reservation module. Galveston.com is winner of the 2006 Stevie Award for Best Overall Website Design; 2006 Interactive Media Award for Outstanding Achievement in Website Development; two Silver 2006 W3 Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Website Development in both Travel and Tourism; and two Silver 2006 International Davey Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Website Development in both Travel and Tourism.