National Geographic: "ExplorersWeb Best of Adventure 2005". ExplorersWeb has been awarded best of adventure by National Geographic and best of the web by Forbes magazine. This webportal has also been covered in NYT, WP, Financial Times, Forbes mag, CNN, UK Sunday Times, Sports Illustrated, various cable and tech news, and other media sources. ExplorersWeb covers expeditions at Everest/Himalaya and K2/Karakorum, in Polar areas and on Oceans, and it also provides useful information about Technology, Statistics, Medicine, Weather and more.

Everybody can do something to help people suffering from the massive tidal wave in Asia. We in Travel Explorations express our deepest sympathies to the victims, families, relatives and communities impacted by this tragedy. If you would like to donate to the relief effort, there are several organisations which offer both immediate and long term assistance as Care, Red Cross, Save the Children, UNICEF and others.

Turning visitors on companies` websites into customers has become the biggest challenge within web marketing. How can you generate more incomes from your website? Here are some more advise that can bring you further in your web marketing efforts.

Website it's not only about being seen. Turning visitors on companies` websites into customers has become the biggest challenge within web marketing. Many companies fail to get visitors return to their websites and book. Several websites should be evaluated and adjusted before companies start up expensive campaigns. It's totally wasted for companies investing their money in campaigns if they don't have a website which works properly. It is crucial to understand what work for websites where companies intend to sell products and services. That's the main difference between a failure and success in digital marketing.

The technological development on flash creates new opportunities for effective and creative marketing. This is great news for forward-thinking people in the travel business. By using flash on their videos on internet, through presentations and displaying on travel exhibitions, it could be real rewarding. You will attain attention, your audience will be inspired and at the same time it will look highly professional.

Here we give some advice how you can use flash as an interactive sales tool on several arenas and for different purposes. Could it be your way to get a breakthrough in the travel market?

The winners in the future are not they who offer the most exciting tours or the lowest prices, but the best sellers. We in Travel Explorations have analyzed trends in marketing during several months and have now summarized our results, combined with own examples and comments in this article.

Get big impact without spending big dollars.

Expand your market opportunities by taking advantage of new strategies, tactics and techniques from marketing trends.

We in Travel Explorations have analyzed trends in marketing during several months and have now summarized our results, combined with own examples and comments in this article.

These exhibitions are great arenas for opportunities in a small country, but a huge travel market.

For travel companies which like to be introduced in Nordic countries, especially Norway: join us on targeted campaigns during the big international Travel Exhibition in Norway and on other exhibitions:

- Reiseliv Lillestrøm - Oslo
- Reiselivsmessen Stavanger
- Reiselivsmessen Vestfold
- Villmarksmessen
- Winter Tourism Conference - Svalbard

According to updated stats from the Federation of Norwegian Commercial and Service Enterprises, HSH`s (Handels- og Servicenæringens Hovedorganisasjon) members in the Norwegian travel industry, it has been sold nearly 115,000 more tours to foreign countries than the first three quarters this year compared with the same period last year.

Ready for the Norway International Tourism and Travel Trade Fair - Reiseliv 2005 - 13 - 16 January? Attract more Norwegian customers to your country! If you like to improve your position in the big Norwegian travel market, we in Travel Explorations would like to give travel companies professional and practical assistance to succeed.

The Norwegian Travel Exhibition - Reiseliv 2004 - was a success for exhibitors with tour operators reporting sales that far outstripped expectations, according to the organiser. Plus it was not only special offers the public were after, but also exclusive travel packages.

Take a walk on the wild side. Svalbard in Norway one of the world`s last frontiers. In the northern part of the country there is plenty of opportunities for exciting adventures. Some of them are winter extreme sport, Northern Light tourism, dog sledging, and well constructed infrastructure for winter sport, snow- and ice festivals. There is a new enthusiasm for winter tourism now. A three days programme will be arranged from 26 - 28 January 2005 in Norway's arctic wilderness Svalbard. The main organiser is Winter Cities Europe (WCE).

This is the golden rule, but it`s dependent on several other things. Experts from the website MountEverest.net (Xexplorersweb) give here their best advice how to survive climbing the world`s highest mountain, Mount Everest.

Times goes better for airline companies. The number of people travelling by air increased by a fifth between January and May (2004), according to the global airline association IATA.

How to acquaint people with a different culture background, and how do you communicate with them?

If your aim is to explore, having an adventure and to make friendship with nomad tribes in Iran, this article could be useful for you.

Forum Barcelona 2004 is the place for experiencing, reflecting and exchanging ideas. 30 hectares with space are filled with ideas, distributed throughout parks, streets, auditorium and other places. As the arrangers hope this huge area will give opportunities to watch, listen, create, experiment, taste, discover and get excited.