NewOrleans.com, LLC is a travel website focused on the details of traveling to and visiting New Orleans, Louisiana. The company is locally-owned and operated, with corporate offices on historic St. Charles Avenue. 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 boom. Since its inception, the site has been a hospitality portal focused on providing information and services regarding touring New Orleans. and named one of the "50 most popular travel Web sites" by the Chicago Tribune in 2005. Incorporating VEGAS.com’s integrated travel shopping cart technology, 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. 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. Industry experts have long recognized the advantages of a top-level geodomain, including the branding and consumer recall that is inherent within the domain name, as well as its direct navigation characteristics - users simply add the suffix to the name of the geographical area to access the Internet site.
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