SignPostX Travel Search Engine caters to Vacationing Consumers that want more from a Holiday

August 11, 2004 -- Today travelers are not as complacent about travel as in the past. They are proactive in their quest for travel information that meets their wants and needs. Those wants and needs have been changing drastically over the last few years. The traditional vacation to theme parks and lazing by the beach are still of interest, but the trend is for more interactive holidays and special travel needs.

SignPostX.com wants to meet those needs and special interests. It has several categories that pertain to these new trends. The Travel Search Engine has adventure, exotic, specialty, and sport vacation categories where the traveler can find the particular vacation niche that they are interested in. Adventure vacations include fly-in-fishing, backpacking, whitewater rafting, hunting and many more. Extreme adventure travel can also fit in there. Exotic vacations might include a trip to Antarctica, sailing on a yacht, barge, freighter or ocean rafting, and checking out the rainforests or caves of the world. Getting married on a tropical island is becoming very popular, as are holidays where you are actually immersed into another culture. Besides wedding and cultural, the specialty vacation category also includes historical, agriculture and Christian. Then there is the regular sport vacations of golfing, skiing, skateboarding, scuba diving, and mountain biking plus many more.

Another new trend is Eco-tourism, which has become the new catch phrase for everyone. Today many different types and definitions of eco-tourism exit, however The International Eco-tourism Society gives the following definition, which has been widely accepted: "responsible travel to natural areas that conserve the environment and improve the well-being of local people." SignPostX.com has an Eco-tourism category that includes eco-resorts, tours, lodges, vacations and holiday packages. Since the definition covers a large spectrum of interpretation, a traveler can go to a resort that only recycles basic items, to the resort that has its own organic garden and has a new waste water system that produces clean water for the picturesque lagoons. The vacationing consumer has to decide how close they want their vacationing spot to adhere to their own eco-tourism definition.

Another group of travelers that SignPostX.com is catering to is the Special Travel Needs group. The largest travel segment in terms of time and travel income are Baby Boomers. These seniors or seniors-to-be love to travel but have many special requests. This can range from wanting to bring their pet along on vacation, requiring handicap accessibility, or needing a partner to travel with. On the other end of the age spectrum, teens also have special travel needs, as do singles. What ever their need SignPostX.com travel search engine will have it at their finger tips.

Travel is not only making the tourist industry grow globally again, but travel is also the largest and fastest growing business on the Internet. Travelers with special desires and needs have the world in their homes through the Internet and they can search for what they want. SignPostX.com, the newest travel search engine, is there to meet those desires. Visitors have access to the world whether they love to play in the sun, go cage diving with Great White Sharks, paddling down the Amazon, scuba diving on the Barrier reef, or watch the sunset on a cruise, they can find it all at SignPostX.com . The travel portal to the world.

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