DUFFEL LAUNCHES AS COMPREHENSIVE TRAVEL PLANNING TOOL

Web Service Culls Travel Information From Across the Web Into Centralized, Social Trip Planning Tool

Palo Alto, CA — November 4, 2009 — Duffel (http://duffelup.com), which premiered at TechCrunch50 2009, announced today the launch of their comprehensive, centralized trip-planning dashboard – with tools that enable travelers to drag and drop information on lodging, dining and activities from across the Web, get travel inspiration by viewing other members’ public itineraries, and plan group trips involving multiple destination experts.

“When planning a vacation, travelers use many mediums and many sources to build their itineraries – advice from friends, travel Web sites, magazine articles, and TV shows,” explains Will Cheung, founder and CEO of Duffel. “Duffel picks up where other travel planning sites leave off. Our service allows you to aggregate the suggestions you find from across the Web with a single click, map out your potential lodging and compare it to desired restaurants and landmarks, and use our travel partners to actually book your trips.”

The service, which targets recreational travelers and group travelers, offers members the ability to:

* Clip travel ideas from anywhere on the Web with a single click, and add them to their personal travel itineraries, or “duffels”
* Collect and lay out travel research in an organized, central dashboard and map out potential hotels, restaurants and travel attractions to make the best lodging and dining decisions, based on location
* Plan group trips that involve multiple destination experts, with multiple parties having the ability to add to the group’s duffel
* Share research ideas, itineraries and maps privately or publicly, as well as gaining travel inspiration and insight by reviewing others’ duffels

Duffel premiered at TechCrunch50 2009. The company competed against more than 1000 submissions for the honor to present their product among the year’s top Web 2.0 start up companies.

About Duffel
Based in San Francisco, CA, Duffel (http://duffelup.com) is comprehensive, centralized trip-planning dashboard – with tools that enable travelers to drag and drop information on lodging, dining and activities from across the Web, get travel inspiration by viewing other members’ public itineraries, and plan group trips involving multiple destination experts. The service, which premiered at TechCrunch50, launched in Beta in November, 2009. Duffel is privately funded.

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