New Internet travel site promises free, user-friendly planning experience

MJ Guides promotes local businesses and economy, while launching new free customized travel guide and service

MJGuides.com, one of the fastest growing internet travel sites, has officially launched its new internet based travel planning tool, Custom Travel Guides. This new service allows business and leisure travelers to browse listings for their destination, and as they find one that they like literally pull it into a personal travel guide. When they are done browsing the flight, hotel, restaurant, transportation, shopping, attraction, nightlife and entertainment options they simply click a button and their personalized travel guide containing their flight information, and business selections will appear. Each guide will also include the weather for their trip, airport maps and more.

Best of all this service is absolutely free, and allows users to save their travel guide so it can be viewed, or printed out, at any time. The guide can also be accessed from any phone or handheld PDA that has web access.

Currently, MJ Guides offers the service for approximately 600 locations across the United States, and has plans to establish guides for Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean and Europe. Whether it’s a one day business trip or a 10 day family vacation the guides can be built directly on the company’s website www.mjguides.com , absolutely free.

In honor of the launch of its custom travel guides, MJ Guides is also offering free listings to the first 250,000 businesses that want to be included in these guides. The company is promoting this option as its 250,000 listings in 250 days campaign, where any business owner or General Manager can go to the site and add their business(es) directly to the databases. Providing these listings at no cost is expected to help small and large businesses reach out to these much needed customers prior to their arrival.

At the time of this release, MJ Guides had already received 49,026 new listings, putting it well ahead of its 250-day goal. In addition, MJ Guides has also established an aggressive recruiting campaign to establish local Sales Contractors in each of its 600 markets. These contractors will have the ability to create their own work schedules, and MJ Guides hopes that this flexibility will make jobs available to those that may not qualify for other jobs in this tight market because they are stay-at-home parents that can only work during school hours, unemployed individuals that need to earn extra money to get by, students and more. Applicants can apply for roles by going to the company’s website, www.mjguides.com and clicking on the careers link at the top of the home page.

Finally, as MJ Guides establishes strong local ties within each community, it intends to launch individual sites for each area. These sites will drive even more tourism dollars to the area, while promoting local businesses. The first of these sites, www.besthawaiisite.com, was launched on Jan. 15 and is dedicated to promoting Hawaii by linking users directly to MJ Guides Hawaiian listings, as well as allowing them to plan the perfect Hawaiian getaway. In the first weeks the site has received over 800 HI business listings and created numerous custom travel guides. MJ Guides hopes that these specific sites will generate even more interest in local tourism and more importantly help boost these local economies.