AboutBritain.com Doubles In Size With Launch Of New Content.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers GALASHIELS, UK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 3, 2000 AboutBritain.com - already one of the most content-packed British travel web sites, has just launched a major expansion -- doubling the size of the site overnight. Over 500 British towns, cities and villages have been added to the site as well as more than 200 new tourist attractions Noun 1. tourist attraction - a characteristic that attracts tourists attractive feature, magnet, attractor, attracter, attraction - a characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts; "flowers are an attractor for bees" from around the country -- everything from theme parks to castles. All include the unique AboutBritain.com "nearby" facility, which helps people maximise their time by showing the nearest places of interest. Director Quenton Fyfe said "We are excited about this update, and feel it will provide a great enhancement to AboutBritain.com. It reaffirms our leadership position amongst British Tourism web sites, and shows our commitment to creating a fascinating, informative site that is required viewing for people planning holidays or days out in Britain." AboutBritain.com -- Background AboutBritain.com was launched on the 24th May 1999 by Excelsior Information Systems Limited. Since then it has shown phenomenal growth, with the number of visitors increasing dramatically as word spreads. The most popular pages are currently the main London tourist attractions, such as Big Ben, the Millennium Dome This article is about the Millennium Dome before its redevelopment and renaming to The O2 in 2005. and the Tower of London Tower of London, ancient fortress in London, England, just east of the City and on the north bank of the Thames, covering about 13 acres (5.3 hectares). Now used mainly as a museum, it was a royal residence in the Middle Ages. , and anything to do with castles! AboutBritain.com took around 6 months to design, develop and write, and now incorporates information on over 700 tourist attractions, 500 British Towns and over 100 hotels. New attractions and features are added regularly. About Excelsior Information Systems Limited Excelsior Information Systems Limited, established in 1991, is a software company which specialises in Internet-related technologies. 20 months ago the founders of Excelsior, Quenton Fyfe & Clare Ivatt, realised that they didn't need to spend 4 hours a day in traffic jams -- they could work effectively from home, and home could be anywhere in the world, thanks to telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. and the Internet. So they "sold up" and moved to a neglected baronial ba·ro·ni·al adj. 1. Of or relating to a baron or barony. 2. Suited for or befitting a baron; stately and grand: a baronial mansion. Adj. 1. mansion MANSION. This term is synonymous with house. (q.v.) 1 Chit. Pr. 167; 2 T. R. 502; 1 Tho. Co. Litt. 215, n. 35; 9 B. & C. 681; S. C. 17 E. C. L. R. 472, and the cases there cited; Com. Dig. Justices, P 5; 3 Serg. & Rawle, 199. in the Scottish Borders The Scottish Borders, often referred to simply as the Borders, is one of 32 local government council areas of Scotland.[1] It is bordered by Dumfries and Galloway in the west, South Lanarkshire and West Lothian in the north west, City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, . The house has seen better days, so when they're not working on AboutBritain.com, Quenton & Clare can be found submerged in renovation plans. |
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