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Bold text Orlandoescape.com

Orlandoescape.com is a privately held online travel publication based in Orlando Florida.

Bold text History: Orlandoescape.com website was launched in 2000 by hospitality professional Sunil Govind, who continues to serve as Orlandoescape.com's president.

Initially, postings on the Orlandoescape.com website focused on the Top 20 travel deals in and around Orlando, and over the years the website's offerings have expanded to include a variety of vacation package deals1, blog postings with travel ideas, plus listings of the top deals in Orlando hotels, vacation homes, dining, shopping, entertainment, golf packages, tour packages, theme park tickets, and other travel related deals. Orlandoescape.com also posts related videos on its YouTube channel.

Bold text Concept: Orlandoescape.com is a unique and refined marketing site designed to serve as a conduit for feeding targeted traffic right into hotel business website. Orlandoescape.com presents these hotel sites to thousands of travel planners. The Orlandoescape.com site does not collect any commissions and does not request inventory in order to sell for the hotel. They deliver all of the customers directly to the hotel business website to view their products and execute on their customers’ websites for a nominal per year fee. In December 20112 the website was revamped to list the latest travel deals in a variety of hospitality categories. Orlandoescape.com also maintains an extensive listing of Orlando area hotels, which are categorized by region, including:

•	International Drive Hotels •	Universal Studios Hotels •	SeaWorld Hotels •	Lake Buena Vista Hotels •	Hotels near Disney World •	Orlando Airport Hotels •	Bonnet Creek Hotels •	Marriott Village Lake Buena Vista

In 2010 the website reported 6.8 million page views, up from 5.7 million page views the year before..

Bold text Competitors:

Expedia.com Hotels.com Orbitz.com Bookit.com Travelocity.com Priceline.com

Bold text Social Media: http://twitter.com/hotelwire http://facebook.com/orlandohotels http://facebook.com/thingstodoinorlando

Bold text References:

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