Contact: Media Relations 866-864-6444 July 2007 City Concierge® Expands Resort Services to Lake Tahoe Lake Tahoe, CA, – With the success and growth of business in Mammoth Lakes, City Concierge, Inc. an independent central resort reservation and information service has expanded their operation to Lake Tahoe. Also added to the Eastern Sierra growth is the ability to book reservations in Bishop, California, and Yosemite National Park. The service includes the ability to find resort information for all 14 ski areas including the top three resorts, Squaw Valley and Northstar in the Northern Lake Tahoe region, and Heavenly Valley in South Lake Tahoe. Online information for the other family resorts includes Sugar Bowl, Boreal, Soda Springs and Tahoe Donner in the Donner Summit region, Alpine Meadows and Homewood in North Tahoe, Diamond Peak and Mt. Rose in Incline Village, and Kirkwood and Sierra at Tahoe in the South Tahoe area. Along with ski resort information and reservations for vacation properties, homes, condos and hotels, City Concierge® provides a collection of dining guides, real estate, retail, and community information. Maps and real time weather from the National Weather service rounds out the offering. Highlighting the Lake Tahoe launch is the ability to book vacation rentals all around the lake, with complete descriptions, photos and pricing and real-time availability in a centralized reservation format. Lake Tahoe is divided into four 4 quadrants, east and west, and north and south, each controlled by a different visitors bureau, from different counties, offering different or overlapping services, causing confusion among customers. City Concierge® unifies the business community by working together, and impacts consumer visitation by simplifying vacation planning. “Uniting the businesses to work as a single entity makes the business community stronger, with more power to reach a buying consumer with less cost for promotion.” says Jefferson Lanz, Managing Director and President of City Concierge, Inc. According to the California Travel and Tourism Commission, May 2007, “by the end of this year, more than half of all travel in the U.S. will be purchased online. 34 million Americans have made the Internet the number one way they buy their leisure travel. Online travel sales are expected to top US$136 billion”. California is the most visited state in the US, and Californian’s make up 83% of the tourism based economy for California. Arizona and Nevada have the largest population coming to California, and City Concierge being based in Los Angeles, is leveraging its Southern California customer base to spread to increase visitation to the central Gold Coast, and Northern California regions. ABOUT CITY CONCIERGE® As the only Internet-based full resort information and reservation service, City Concierge® delivers a central collection of tourism-based services, businesses, and information partnerships that offers vacation information, central guest services, and reservation travel services for individuals, groups, and corporate travel. Developing powerful marketing solutions for the resort industry, City Concierge® works with local businesses to help them reach larger audiences through strategic marketing programs and advertising. City Concierge (www.cityconcierge.com) was founded in August 2002. |
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