About Europe for Visitors
ABOVE: Cheryl and Durant Imboden, publishers of
Europeforvisitors.com, mug for a self-portrait in Venice, Italy.
Mini-biographies:
Durant Imboden ·
Cheryl Imboden
Quick stats and facts:
- Average yearly circulation of 3.5 million visits from more than 200 countries. (See
Audience: Traffic and
Demographics.)
- 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).
 Our
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.
 Our 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.
More information:
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
 Society
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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"Best of the Web"
- Forbes and The Washington Post
Our most popular topics:
Need a car in Europe?
Auto Europe
guarantees the lowest rental
rates for standard cars, sports cars, SUVs, luxury cars,
chauffered sedans, and RVs. Its Web site also has driving information
for 38 countries.
If
you live outside the EU, a
tax-free
Renault or
Peugeot tourist lease can be cheaper than renting.
Minimum driver age is 18, there' s no upper age limit, and rates include
insurance. See:
Short-term car leasing.
Traveling by train?
Rail Europe
has schedules, maps, and guides for 50+ European railroads. (Residents
of North and Central America can buy tickets and rail passes
online.)
From Europe for Cruisers:
Travel and cruise news:
Europe for Visitors Blog
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