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Venere.com is happy to announce a new partnership with PlanetEye.com,an innovative travel planning website based in Toronto, Canada.

Offering cool user-friendly features, such as comprehensive travel reviews and articles by in-house travel writers and professional sources, semplified search and bookmarking tools, beautiful geo-tagged pictures, exciting… read full article

Visit the venere.com stand at WTM London 2008!

If you are in London to attend this year’s World Travel Market show, drop to say hello to the friendly Venere staff who will be happy to answer your questions and give you… read full article

The lucky winner of the 4-night stay at the Boscolo Hotel Exedra offered by venere.com in collaboration with Boscolo Luxury Hotels is Angela Chessa from Sassari, Italy.

Angela is giving the prize to her sister Paola who will travel to Rome with her husband in early December. The couple will… read full article

Watch our 2-minute Video and Win a Dream Stay in Boscolo Luxury Hotel Exedra in Rome!

This month’s most popular travel articles on the Venere Travel Blog are:

1. Bali Luxury Hotels

Published July 5th – Dreaming of a spiritual retreat or an exotic honeymoon in Asia? Venere presents three of the most romantic hotels in Bali, Indonesia. These three exclusive resorts offer luxury… read full article

Forbes.com published this year’s list of the 10 Best Airports worldwide including Hong Kong (1st place), Munich Airport and Copenhagen Airport. No US airport made the list, which is dominated by Asian and European airports.

Rome has banned snacking near its famous monuments in… read full article

Today, Expedia Inc. announced an agreement to buy Venere.com from current owners Advent International and Venere’s founders.

Venere was founded in 1995. Global private equity firm Advent International acquired a 60% controlling stake in the company in November 2006. The other 40% in stakes remained in the hands of Venere’s founders. Venere.com offers 29,000… read full article

Our monthly recap of the previous month’s most read blog articles:

1. Family friendly hotels in Washington DC

Published June 23rd – Our top-5 of Washington hotels with facilities to welcome families with kids. Nintendo games, swimming pools, children under 12 eat free, babysitting and… read full article

Our very own Federica (30) and Luca (29) got married in Frosinone, approx. 90 km (56 miles) south-east of Rome. Federica works at Venere since 2004 as an information architect and Luca joined in 2007 as a database quality assurance operator.

Congrats from all of us… read full article

Here are a few photos of Neil’s rickshaw team wearing our Venere T-shirts:

Take a look at May 2008 most popular articles on the Venere Travel Blog:

1. A weekend trip to Cinque Terre, Italy

An article by our Venere Travel blogger Emilie, with useful tips on how to reach Cinque Terre by train and what to pack when… read full article

Sorry for the radio silence. My blackberry didn’t work in Nepal and the establishments we stayed in only came with one extra – mosquitos! By the battalion. Wireless Internet wasn’t really going to be on the cards. So to give you all an update on the past few days… read full article

I am sitting at the departure gate at Delhi airport having survived the most extraordinary route through an airport I’ve ever endured.

Don’t expect any signposts telling you where to go if you ever fly through here! It really is every man, woman and child for themselves. Having some how left the… read full article

Neil Ambler is participating in the 3-week Rickshaw run adventure in the Nepalese Himalayas. The Rickshaw Run is a tuk tuk race starting on 1 June in Kathmandu, Nepal and ending some 3 weeks later in Pondicherry, India. Neil will be sending updates as his team faces the usual dirt tracks, jungle, bad roads and… read full article

Venere.com, the Europe and Italy hotel specialist, and Trenitalia, the Italian National Railway, are today launching a new co-branded service where Trenitalia users can book their train ticket and their accommodation on the co-branded web site.

This new hotel reservation service… read full article