West Hollywood Marketing & Visitors Bureau Launches New Blog
New West Hollywood Celebrity Blog
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA, December 5, 2008. The West Hollywood Marketing & Visitors Bureau (WHMVB), which markets the City of West Hollywood as a "first choice" travel destination and serves as a primary resource for visitors, media, and meeting planners, has launched a new blog entitled OnePointNine. The new blog highlights West Hollywood's unique mix of celebrity sightings, cultural events, and hot news such as restaurant, hotel, spa, or club openings. Located at www.onepointnine.com, the blog furthers the Bureau's ongoing commitment to "Web 2.0" initiatives by applying new web technologies to destination marketing.
The City of West Hollywood is 1.9 square miles in size and is located between Beverly Hills and Hollywood in Los Angeles County. Centrally located and near many celebrity homes and movie and television studios, West Hollywood offers a luxurious, yet edgy hotel product along with some of the most popular boutique shops, spas, restaurants, cafes and art galleries in Los Angeles. Many stars flock to West Hollywood's nightclubs, shops, and eateries which are often the places to "see and be seen."
"OnePointNine is a quick way to let our visitors and those with vested interest in West Hollywood know what the trends and hot spots are in the city, along with the latest celebrity activity happening within our borders. We monitor celebrity news and then compile it all into one location," says Amy Anderson, Director of Communications for the WHMVB. "Trends can often change very fast in our city, so this gives people an insight into where to go," adds Anderson.
The OnePointNine blog is interactive, allowing comments and discussion as well as providing links to West Hollywood's main tourism site where people can book hotel rooms directly online and find more information about West Hollywood such as transportation options, a calendar of events, maps, event spaces, and media resources:
www.visitwesthollywood.com,
Recent postings on the WHMVB's new blog include maps that highlight the hotspots of hit shows "The Hills" and "Entourage." The maps not only show locations where filming took place, but also where the stars go on their own time. Visitors can print these maps and use them as a walking tour or just look to them when they want a night out on the town.
In addition to the Celebrity Blog, the WHMVB recently added Podcasts, a MySpace page, Facebook page, Twitter, and runs a separate gay specific travel web site at GoGayWestHollywood.com.
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