About Us

Through ten years of development and over seven years of production, TripSmarter.Com has evolved into the premier visitor information resource for the Southeast United States. Building on the more than twenty years of content produced by The Tourist Network's six TV stations, TripSmarter.Com is unique among travel and tourism websites.

Our six streaming visitor information television stations give an insider's view into the restaurants, attractions, nightlife, and history of the markets we serve. Our large video-on-demand library is a valuable supplement to The Tourist Network's broadcast stations, bringing home the Web's potential to put control into the viewer's hands and letting you "look before you leave."

Our six streaming visitor information television stations give an insider's view into the restaurants, attractions, nightlife, and history of the markets we serve.

Streaming television and video-on-demand isn't the end of multimedia on TripSmarter.com. We also have audio files that teach you to speak like a local, huge photo galleries from all six markets, and streaming live cams that bring your destination into your computer.

In the ultimate in online functionality, we provide you, the user, with the best and most well respected online booking agency to accommodate your travel needs. Whether it's hotels (from over 35,000 listings), airlines, car rentals, or golf packages, TripSmarter.com can help you book the lowest prices.

TripSmarter.com isn't content without providing the user with information - we look to our users to provide us with the questions and comments that will help us make the site that much better. Through our lively forums we pull the user into the further development of TripSmarter.com, using their feedback to tailor the site more consistently with those things that real travelers have said would be useful in planning their trips.

Our polls are designed in the same way, to determine which video formats our users prefer, what editorial content they would like to see, and as a method of letting others know which features of each market are most popular.

Our restaurant reviews allow potential visitors to hear from other travelers just what they liked- or didn't- about the restaurants in a particular city. From these our users are able to pick, before they leave home, which restaurants they will want to visit.

We're not content with just providing videos and photos from our vast libraries- we encourage our users to submit their own vacation shots and videos. This enables us to present a wider range of images that will give users a more complete understanding of the TripSmarter.com markets. It's also a great way for grandparents to show-off their grandkids- our photo gallery allows users to email any picture in the galleries as a postcard!

In addition to ever-expanding multimedia libraries, online reservations, and interactive areas, TripSmarter.com has compiled extensive listings of restaurants, hotels, shopping outlets, tourist services, attractions, and nightclubs for each market. These are arranged in bulleted, alphabetical format for speed and ease of use… you don't need a cable modem or T-1 to enjoy TripSmarter.com!

An events calendar lists the most promising special events coming up in each market. Our editorial content consists of articles written from an insider's perspective on the various events within each market, on their historical and cultural background, and on the personalities that color each destination.

If you're planning a business trip or family vacation to the Southeast and don't TripSmarter, you're sure to miss something!