PARIS, February 16 -- In an effort to help travelers everywhere, NAVX
and WCITIES have teamed up to distribute WCITIES guides for 100
destinations across North America, Europe and Asia via NAVX's
geo-localized content store and social community website.
Travelers will be able to purchase and download the city guides so that they have information at their fingertips while on the road.
With over 100 destinations to be released, NAVX and WCITIES have many of the world's most popular tourist locations covered. The WCITIES guides will help travelers to find great places to eat, shop and sleep, as well as describing the popular sights and nightlife for each destination.
NAVX allows travelers to prepare for, record and share details of trips and holidays. NAVX also makes their platform available as a white label of original and user-generated content to GPS device manufacturers.
Jean Cherbonnier, CEO of NAVX, comments: "NAVX delivers best in class solutions bringing together LBS, navigation, user generated content and communities. We are very excited to offer WCITIES guides to enable consumers to discover and explore location aware experiences."
Fraser Campbell, CEO of WCITIES, comments:"NAVX offers WCITIES a great opportunity to reach a market that has been underserved with relevant and timely destination information for cities around the world."
NAVX is at MWC in Barcelona, demonstrating their platform (TeleAtlas 8C118).
About NAVX
NAVX operates a platform aggregation and distribution of geo-localized content, which connects GPS with the Internet and allows customers to generate their own content, share it and upload it onto their GPS devices. NAVX services are compatible with all major GPS brands and available in eight countries. More information on http://www.navx.com.
About WCITIES
WCITIES provides travel and entertainment content for 2000+ destinations around the world. Founded in 1998 and based in San Francisco, WCITIES combines a strong database of travel-related information with enhanced technologies to offer City Guides, Dynamic Event Guides, and Movie Showtime Guides. WCITIES also supplies Internet services to portals, hotel chains, airlines, travel agents, including Yahoo, MSN, AOL, Marriott, Starwood, American Airlines and the TravelChannel. WCITIES distributes its location-based content across multiple devices, including SmartPhones, BlackBerry, iPhones, iPods and personal navigation systems, and to customers such as Nokia, Mio, Orange and Wayfinder.
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