Viscape Reinvents Vacation Home Industry as First Site to Combine Vacation Home Search, Real Estate and Social Networking

2008-11-18 19:23:04 -

www.viscape.com - Viscape, the first social media platform to connect vacationers with vacation home owners and vacation real estate, announces its official launch. Seizing the convergence between the Internet, social media, vacation real estate and travel planning, Viscape forges a vibrant community where travelers can find the perfect vacation home and destination in just minutes.
"Whether it"s a family planning a trip or a vacation home owner looking to rent their property, Viscape provides a service to both, completely free of charge. It also gives travelers the power to decide where to go and where to stay," said Caroline Allison, president of Viscape. "There"s a tremendous market opportunity for Viscape to modernize traveling, just as eBay did for auctioning and Wikipedia did for information sharing."
Viscape is a place for travelers, owners, and real estate professionals to come together to network, exchange ideas, conduct business, meet and organize trips around vacation properties and second homes. Viscape offers travelers the opportunity to research a certain destination through user-generated content, as well as share travel experiences with others. Unique to Viscape is that travelers can find both positive and negative reviews about vacation properties, while other sites allow property owners to moderate comments - filtering out the honest and balanced feedback. In addition, travelers have direct contact with the property owner for questions and rates, all without having to leave the site.
Viscape enables travelers to connect around vacations. The site offers a Web 2.0 social networking aspect of travel planning by allowing travelers to plan a trip together or share travel experiences. Friends and family can form a network and suggest properties to each other and gather details, taking away the tons of emails and multitude of links typically involved in planning. Viscape also offers home owners and real estate professionals a new way to list and market their properties without having to pay a listing fee, a subscription fee or commission for bookings.
In its short time online, Viscape has been well received by the vacation home industry and is growing rapidly in both members and properties. Viscape is on pace to become one of the largest vacation home websites and travel communities on the Internet. For more information, please visit cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT"id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww ...
About Viscape:
Based in Arlington, Virginia, cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT"id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fvis .. is a next generation social marketplace for vacation properties and second homes, where travelers can connect with other passionate travelers. Use cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fvis .. to list properties free for sale, rent, or swap. Plan a trip together with your family and friends. With thousands of vacation properties and rentals from which to choose, it makes finding the perfect vacation home or destination fast, friendly and fun.


For Viscape

Margie Schaffner, 317-806-1900 x.116

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