Galveston.com Launches All-New Calendar of Events

[November 17, 2008] - Galveston.com & Company is pleased to announce the launch of an all-new, state-of-the-art calendar of events on the official website of Galveston Island tourism, Galveston.com.

This exciting new calendar was created from scratch with Galveston.com site visitors in mind, including a host of features that will make planning a trip to the Island easier than ever before. Now, website visitors are only a click or two away from adding Galveston.com events to their own personal calendars (like Outlook or Google), emailing event information to themselves or others, and setting email and cell phone text message reminders on events. It's also possible to subscribe to the Galveston.com calendar, guaranteeing that if changes occur to an existing Island event, you'll be the first to know. The calendar also features RSS feeds, keyword searchability, event filtering, and a convenient form making event submission a snap.

According to Jim Cordell of Galveston.com & Company, “We really do believe this new calendar platform will revolutionize the way our 20,000+ daily Galveston.com visitors plan their trips to the Island."

Galveston.com will soon launch a 2-year website "re-invention" in early 2009, an upgrade that will include a variety of new features, interactivity, and functionality that was only imagined when the company first bowed in the fall of 1994. A new Galveston.com & Company logo was recently introduced, in anticipation of this event.

Rich with interactive polls, a robust message board, audio and video podcasts (the first tourism 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, Galveston.com is quite unlike any other destination portal in the United States.

In fact, in the last 2 years, Galveston.com & Company has captured two Travel Weekly Magellan Awards, two (one for Galveston.com; one for Second Life Galveston Island) American Business "Stevie" Awards, an International Summit Creative Award, an International Davey Award, an Interactive Media Award, and two W³ Awards.

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. Additional website ventures by Galveston.com & Company include Galveston.org, GalvestonCruises.com, HoustonAreaHotels.com, and Kemah.com. The company specializes in destination portals, as well as online lodging, cruise, parking, and transfer reservations via its proprietary DestinationNext reservation module. For more information, contact Galveston.com & Company at via phone (409)763-8676 or email at websites@galveston.com.