New, Free Online Vacation Guide for Las Vegas

Laguna Hills, California (PRWeb) February 13, 2007 -- ThereArePlaces, a privately held business focused on online travel information publishing, announced today the launch of a comprehensive, illustrated and easy-to-navigate, Las Vegas Travel Guide on its web site http:// www.ThereArePlaces.com.

The new Las Vegas Guide includes a Las Vegas overview detailing why the city is such an attractive vacation hotspot. It also features separate sections on Casinos and Casino Hotels, Gambling, Shows and Entertainment, Best Restaurants, Best Shopping, Free Things to See, Day Trips from Las Vegas and Las Vegas Travel Facts.

"Las Vegas has shucked off its reputation as a one horse town" said Mike Dobson, President of ThereArePlaces. "It now provides diverse vacation experiences featuring pampering, self-indulgence intermixed with the types of luxury trappings that most travelers find inviting, attractive and very satisfying. To show you the extent of the transformation, Las Vegas now outdraws all of Italy as a vacation destination."

The Guide includes concise descriptions of the top attractions in Las Vegas, as well as beautiful photographs of what you will see when you get there. The locations of ThereArePlaces' recommended Las Vegas attractions are shown on Google maps that can be viewed with a traditional road map or color satellite imagery as the background. The maps can be zoomed or panned to allow the user to focus on areas of interest to them. In addition, the Las Vegas Guide includes a purpose-built, printable map of the Strip that shows walking distance along Las Vegas Boulevard.

Over eighty percent of the visitors to Las Vegas gamble, and the ThereArePlaces Las Vegas Guide covers casinos and casino resorts in detail. Today most couples visiting Vegas are composed of one gambler and one shopper, and over fifty percent of the visitors to Las Vegas shop while on vacation. "We created a section of the Guide that is focused on the Best Places to Shop in Las Vegas and includes a detailed map showing their locations" Dobson said. "Since everyone loves great food, we also created a section on the Best Restaurants in Las Vegas along with a map highlighting their locations."

ThereArePlaces.com offers two distinctive guide sections: Travel Planning Guides and Vacation Destination Guides. The Destination Guide section now covers top destinations in forty of the world's most popular countries for vacation travel.

ThereArePlaces is managed by Dr. Mike Dobson, a travel industry professional and avid traveler, who helped to create some of the world's best-selling travel publications during his 13 years as the Chief Cartographer and Chief Technologist for Rand McNally & Company.     ThereArePlaces is not a travel service provider. ThereArePlaces does not sell travel goods, make travel reservations, or provide ticketing services. As put by the Company president Mike Dobson, "Our commitment is to provide travel advice that might help you take the journey of a lifetime."

About ThereArePlaces
ThereArePlaces is a property of TeleMapics, LLC, a business focused on Geospatial Information, including travel, tourism, and other location based services (www.Telemapics.com).

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