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Quick stats and facts:

  • Five-year traffic: 17.6 million visits and 64+ million editorial page views, mostly on "evergreen" destination articles and cruise reviews.

  • More than 6,000 pages of editorial content about European travel.

  • Our audience consists of readers who are deciding where to go and how to spend their money in Europe.
  • Our annual research budget is well into the five figures.
  • We're one of the few non-corporate publishers that are represented by Travora Media (the travel industry's leading vertical ad network, which also represents Lonely Planet, Rough Guides, Rand McNally, and other big-name travel publishers).

photoOur travel Web sites began as The Baby Boomer's Venice in early 1996, followed by Venice for Visitors and Switzerland for Visitors when The Mining Co. (later to become About.com) was launched in 1997. These topics soon expanded into Europe for Visitors and Switzerland/Austria for Visitors, and one of us (Durant Imboden) also found time to write a guidebook, Buying Travel Services on the Internet, for McGraw-Hill.

photoOur relationship with About.com ended in fall, 2001. Since then, we've acquired our own domains and placed our copyrighted material on six tightly integrated sites: Europe for Visitors, Venice for Visitors, Paris for Visitors, Rome for Visitors, Switzerland and Austria for Visitors, and Europe for Cruisers.

These editorial "content sites" provide more than 6,000 pages of original articles, annotated links to other Web sites, and additional travel-planning resources that are specifically geared to European travel and cruising--primarily in Western and Atlantic Europe, which are the areas of Europe that we know best.

To serve our readers, we travel extensively and have an annual travel budget in the five figures. We also work closely with European tourist offices and other organizations to deliver in-depth coverage of destinations, cruises, and other travel experiences in Europe.

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Contact Us
We're happy to discuss editorial issues by e-mail.

Press Clippings
See what Forbes, The Washington Post, Time, PC World, USA Today, The New York Times, and other publications have written about us.

Advertising
Promote your business or destination with display ads or keyword-targeted text ads.

PR Opportunities
Here's what PR professionals need to know about reaching our travel audience. (Also see our travel vendor and reader testimonials.)

Europe for Visitors Blog
Our EFVblog offers European travel news, views, and tips.  If you're headed for Venice, see our Venice Travel Blog and Maggie in Venice dog blog.

Privacy Policy
In a nutshell: We don't know who you are unless you e-mail us, and if we do know, we won't share that information with anyone else.

Booking Partners
Hotels, car rentals and leases, sightseeing tours, etc.

Other Disclosures
A few words about press trips and review products.

Organizational affiliation

SATW logoSociety of American Travel Writers
Durant Imboden belongs to the Editors Council of SATW, an organization for U.S. and Canadian travel writers and photographers.

Personal plugs

Maggie: A Beardie Rescue Dog
Learn about Maggie, an adopted Bearded Collie, and how you can save a dog through a canine rescue organization or--if necessary--give your own dog up for adoption. Also see our Maggie in Venice dog blog.

Travelwritten.com
Durant Imboden edits this Web site and blog, which is subtitled "A travel writer's guide to self-publishing on the Web."

Uptown Minneapolis
OK, it isn't about Europe, but can't a proud mama and papa plug their son and daughter's first book? Also see Thatcher Imboden's OurUptown.com and Cedar Imboden Phillips's Minnesota State Flair blog.

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Short-term car leases:
cheaper than renting!

Do you live outside the EU? Save on car rental with a tax-free Peugeot 'Buy Back' or Renault Eurodrive tourist lease. Minimum driver age is 18, there's no upper age limit, and rates include full insurance.

For details, see our article on Short-Term Car Leasing.