FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: iExplore.com Surpasses 50 Million Visitors in All-Time Traffic CHICAGO, Ill., Nov. 17, 2008 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- iExplore (www.iExplore.com), the leading online resource for adventure and experiential travel, announced today that it surpassed the 50 million all-time visitor mark for the first time this month. iExplore.com launched in February 2000 with no traffic and has steadily grown to over 1.3 million visitors per month today. iExplore Founder and CEO, George Deeb, said "This is not only a testament to the iExplore team for building a website and booking service that encourages engagement by a growing base of impassioned adventure travelers, but it also a credit to the iExplore users themselves, who have honored iExplore with their continued loyalty and trust while making their adventure travel plans over the last eight years. We could not have achieved this level of success without them." Founded in 1999, iExplore (www.iExplore.com) is the leading online resource for adventure and experiential travel, with a one-stop offering of travel content, community and commerce, and serves as a high-end tour operator of made-to-order, privately-guided tours under the iExplore Exclusives brand. iExplore has been named the "Best Adventure Travel Website" by Forbes Magazine, Travel & Leisure Magazine, Yahoo, Google and Time Magazine, and powers adventure trips for many leading travel sites including Lonely Planet, Travel Channel, Travelocity, Fodors and Frommers. iExplore is a wholly-owned division of UK-based TUI Travel PLC, the largest seller of international leisure travel in the world. Note to editors: Deeb available for interview. Photos available. iExplore, Inc., 954 W. Washington, Suite 3W, Chicago, IL 60607. *(LOGO 72dpi: Send2Press.com/mediaboom/08-0714-iExplore_72dpi.jpg) All trademarks are property of their respective owners. Send2Press(R) is the originating wire service for this story, Copr. 2008. NEWS SOURCE: iExplore, Inc. # # # // RELEASE END // MEDIA ONLY CONTACT(S): [ contact info below not for publication online or in print ] George Deeb Founder and CEO iExplore, Inc. +1-312-492-9443 x102 pressrelease @ iexplore.com //Note to Editors: Additional iExplore news and RSS feed: http://profiles.send2press.com/iExplore.shtml ......... Plain Text Copy, and Story Permalink: http://www.Send2Press.com/mediadrome/2008-11-1117-005P.txt Release PDF: http://www.Send2Press.com/mediadrome/news_2008-11-1117-005P.pdf Get our full-text news via RSS: http://www.Send2Press.com/RSS2/rss.xml ......... Text provided by news source (and/or the source's authorized agency), who is solely responsible for accuracy and legality of content transmitted. ......... This news story from Send2Press Newswire may be redistributed and re-posted in part or in whole by members of the media. Copr. (c) Send2Press, a unit of Neotrope(R). For news aggregation sites, blogs, and bureaus, you must retain Send2Press as the original wire service source. You may capture and self-host images linked to in above release, but do NOT stream from our server. ......... The original version of this release was issued on behalf of the above organization (the "news source"), by Send2Press(R) Newswire, a service of Neotrope(R). http://www.Send2Press.com. ......... NOVEMBER 2008 Press Release / B-NAB IL AG1/3 PRT / IND: TRAV WEB BUS / agency = / ytv = / pre =