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19th December 2003

Multimap.com Helps Consumers Prepare for the Holidays with Travel Services ... and Last-minute Gift Suggestions!

As Christmas draws ever closer, Multimap.com, Europe’s leading provider of online mapping services to the public, is reminding users that its range of travel services can help to make holiday travel planning a snap. And Multimap has a few ideas for last-minute gifts, too!

Multimap’s popular public website offers consumers a number of services that can make journey planning much less stressful:

• the most cartographically-appealing, interactive maps of the UK, Europe, the US, Canada and Australia at street-level, and world maps at regional level;
• travel directions, to help users get from A to B quickly and directly;
• traffic information services, which provide detailed information on road closures, heavy traffic, road works, and more;
• flight booking services, courtesy of Multimap’s partner Kelkoo. Kelkoo’s service helps users find and compare live flight prices for almost any destination. By offering an independent price comparison service, Kelkoo can save users time and money; just the ticket when everyone is rushed off their feet with Christmas planning!;
• last-minute hotels for visiting relatives: Multimap’s partners Active Hotels and Accommodation Search Engine can provide preferred rates at more than 40,000 hotels in 169 countries. Whether someone needs a room for an unexpected guest, or a luxury suite in an exotic locale to decompress after the holidays, Multimap’s hotelfinder can help;
• if a quiet break in the country sounds like the ideal antidote to holiday madness, then Multimap’s cottagefinder can help. Easycottages, Multimap’s partner for this service, can find the perfect holiday cottage in England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, or France.

And if users still need to wrap up their Christmas shopping, Multimap has a few interesting ideas:

• Getmapping has flown a staggering half a million miles across the country to create a vast, seamless aerial survey of England, Wales and parts of Scotland. For the festive season, what better gift than a bird's eye view of someone’s own neighbourhood, favourite holiday resort or any other area that's special?
• Or what about a historic photo or print? The Frith Collection offers thousands of photographs taken between 1860 and 1970 for sale as beautiful framed prints, posters, and books. They make wonderful gifts for all occasions, for parents, grandparents, children, everyone!
• And we may be a bit biased, but Multimap also recommends something map-related. Stanfords has the UK’s biggest range of maps, travel books and guides, and the best selection of wall maps and globes on the net. They also sell map jigsaw puzzles, GPS units, and a few weird and wonderful items, such as maps of Ambridge for the Archer-olic in the family.

About Multimap.com
Multimap.com is Europe's leading provider of mapping and location-based services. The company delivers more online maps, point-to-point driving directions and geo-spatial ("where's my nearest?") searches to more companies than any other supplier in Europe. All services are offered on WAP, PDA, kiosk, and interactive TV platforms and in multiple languages.