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As internet takes to the skies, so does Mobissimo with Wifi Search for flights.  We have added a Wifi icon to flights that currently offer Wifi on air flights (*fees may apply).  Always the leader in giving travelers the best products to search and decide on travel options, Wifi search makes finding internet during your flight as easy as a click.  While we are doing our best to verify internet on the flights, please check with the provider for the last word on availability.  Check it out today on Mobissimo Air Search.

Did you know that Mobissimo is now in so many languages, countries, and currencies, we can't even count them?  As always, Mobissimo is the leader in travel search globally.  Choose your language or country or currency, Mobissimo will have a site for you.  In addition to the original Mobissimo.com, there is mobissimo.fr, mobissimo.it, mobissimo.es, mobissimo.de, mobissimo.in, mobissimo.co.uk, mobissimo.jp, mobissimo.mx, and of course, mobissimo.pl.  Whew, that's a lot of sites, make sure to use the one that best serves your travel needs.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Mobissimo Searches Student and Youth Travel Fares

First Travel Search Engine to Display Student Travel Discount Fares from STA Travel

San Francisco—June 24, 2009.

•    Mobissimo (www.mobissimo.com), the world’s most comprehensive airfare and hotel travel search engine, now includes fares from the leading student travel discount supplier, STA Travel .
•    Adding student travel discount deals to Mobissimo’s vast coverage of travel suppliers means students can find and book cheap airfare and airline tickets and get the best student travel deals to summer vacation destinations.
•    Mobissimo is the only travel search engine that allows students to compare student travel airfare along with regular airline ticket fares.
•    In addition to exclusive STA Travel student fares, only Mobissimo searches the most low-cost airlines around the world, making travel efficient, flexible, and inexpensive (http://blog.mobissimo.com/archives/232-Introducing-Mobissimos-New-User-Tutorial.html).
Details
Mobissimo displays STA student travel airfare results alongside other travel supplier offerings and allows students to search and book student travel discount fares, for domestic and international student travel.

Supporting Quotes
 “At Mobissimo we’re constantly working to improve the breadth and reach of our travel search engine, and we’ve added new travel suppliers to serve our student audience with discounted airline tickets for students, children and youth fares,” said Beatrice Tarka, (http://twitter.com/beatricetarka) Mobissimo’s CEO and co-founder. “Mobissimo is the first and only travel search engine to present such a wide range of travel options to help all travellers save money.”

Student Travel
•    STA Travel is the world's largest student travel organization for students and youth, providing relevant advice and unique product ideas from experienced advisers who themselves are recent travellers. The result is a global brand of businesses that support the aim of students and young people travelling the world to experience other cultures firsthand in order to better contribute in their future lives. (http://tinyurl.com/statravel09)

About Mobissimo
Mobissimo is the ultimate travel search engine because it saves travelers time and money and improves the way they discover discount airfare and hotel deals. Mobissimo simultaneously searches more than 180 different travel sites in 30 countries and five continents, including major global airlines, low-cost carriers, consolidators, and hotel/car rental sites, to find the best fares and rates online. Mobissimo is a  leading travel search innovator and works with many of the world’s foremost travel brands, including Air France, American Airlines, British Airways, Ebookers, KLM, Lufthansa, Opodo, Orbitz, Singapore Airlines, Travelocity, United Airlines and Virgin. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and is privately held. For more information and to experience Mobissimo, please visit www.mobissimo.com.

Press Contacts
Judy Curtis
SIPR for Mobissimo
(+1) 650 274 1509
judy@sipr.com

I'm a carry on type of guy, however, taking up half the cargo space of a 747 is a little much.  Apparently Mariah Carey needs 27 bags worth of stuff, read more here.

38-year-old pop diva Mariah Carey landed yesterday at London Heathrow Airport for an upcoming performance on the X Factor, bringing along 27 bags of luggage for a stay that is only expected to last three days.

Dear MobiFans,
 
People's choice Mashable is giving people all over the world a chance to nominate their favorite web sites for the Open Web Awards, from now until November 15 at midnight.
 
Mobissimo (www.mobissimo.com) is the best, most comprehensive travel search site on the Web, and your vote will make sure the whole world knows it.  To nominate Mobissimo, click here.  Let's get Mobissimo on the ballot!  Please spread the word to your friends and other savvy travelers. Voting starts on November 19.

MobiShare ­ - Your Place to Share and Discover Photos, notes, videos, webpages, and more.  Save and share travel information, articles, links, and research for yourself and your friends. Browse and discuss what others have found for destinations you plan to visit. Everything you need to plan your next trip in one convenient location.

If you haven't joined MobiFriends, you don't know what you're missing. Forget about stale reviews, we're giving you favourites from actual users of Mobissimo. Actual travel plans, real itineraries, real experiences, all here. Sign up now for Mobissimo's MobiFriends powered by Thingfo.

Ever wonder who's going to London this weekend? You? Me too! Let's meet up for drinks at Milk & Honey. Meet exciting travel buddies from around the world. Show where you've been and where you're going, find fares, share information, all with MobiFriends powered by Thingfo. Check it out more here on the homepage of Mobissimo.

Covering more languages than any other travel search engine, Mobissimo continues to lead the way in travel search in any language.  Mobissimo.de is now live, joining language specific sites in Spanish, Italian, English, French, and Polish.  Stay tuned for more and more from Mobissimo and if you want to check out the new Mobissimo.de, click here.

Yes, the media has picked up on the greatest things in Poland and Spain since Trabbies and jamon serrano, that's right, their very own Mobissimo travel sites. Check the pic below for youself and click here for the full story.

Yet another first for Mobissimo, read more here via BusinessWire.

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mobissimo (www.mobissimo.com), the world’s most comprehensive travel search engine, today launched its newest travel search site, serving online travel markets in Italy (www.it.mobissimo.com). Mobissimo is the first U.S. travel search engine to launch in Italy with local content specifically geared to Italian users.

Much more than a simple translation, Mobissimo’s new Italian site is seamlessly “Italian” and extends the reach of the travel search engine. Mobissimo’s Italian site includes fares and offers from local travel agencies, consolidators, hotel operators and all the major and low-cost airlines that are pertinent to users in Italy.

Global meta search site Mobissimo is to relaunch this week with a major swing towards intuitive search and customisable content.

The US-based website will simultaneously unveil the overhauled new look and feel across its country sites – including the UK – as it looks to improve its presence in overseas markets.

The new offering will include what its founder Beatrice Tarka calls a “dramatic” new approach to meta search by allowing users to customise their homepage.

Users can create their own modules – featuring tools such as weather, currency or destination photos – which are then automatically populated with content on results pages depending on the search parameters.

Widgets from third part sites such as travel social network Dopplr can also be dropped into the user interface.

Tarka told Travolution: “We think we are taking meta search another step ahead. It is customisable travel search – Web 3.0.”

The takeover of meta rival Sidestep by market leader Kayak has put Mobissimo in a strong position to push forward in the US, Tarka said.

Mobissimo is expected to shortly launch country sites in Mexico, Poland and Spain.

View more the brand new industry leading look at Mobissimo.com.

Mobissimo continues to add key suppliers to our travel search engine, this week adding Vayama and CheapoAir to the Mobissimo Airfare Search. Both suppliers offer great fares and travel options for international as well as domestic itineraries.

'The addition of Vayama and CheapoAir to the Mobissimo AirSearch adds tremendous value to our international searches.' Peter S. Shin, Mobissimo Business Development. 'We further distance ourselves from other travel search engines by getting fares, especially wiith international itineraries, where pricing is variable, that they simply cannot, either technically or commercially.

See for yourself on Mobissimo.com and plan that trip now.

Borat Sagdiyev, the Pulitzer winning reporter from Kazakhstan is writing a guide book about the United of States.

NEW YORK - Glorious booksellers of America: Please welcome the esteemed Borat Sagdiyev.

The ever eloquent ambassador from Kazakhstan has a book, with two titles, coming out this fall: "Borat: Touristic Guidings To Minor Nation of U.S. and A." and "Borat: Touristic Guidings To Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan."

"There is one and only Borat and we are honored to have him join our pantheon of international writers," Suzanne Herz, publisher of Flying Dolphin Press, an imprint of Random House, Inc.'s Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group, said in a statement Wednesday.

Stars of today need to be multi-channel - starring in movies, getting a record deal, writing children's books.  Borat is only doing what all media superstars of today are doing.  'This one, not so much!'

As you already know, Mobissimo is a sponsor of The States on The History Channel. Another illustrious sponsor is Real Travel - a traveler's resource for travel blogs. You can get your very own free travel blog by signing up at Real Travel or by clicking here.

A sample from a great blog and post about Mexico:

After many years of "no... not this year", my husband, daughter and I finally decided to pack up and enjoy a much-needed vacation with my parents in their timeshare in Mexico.

This summarizes our trip quite nicely....
- slept
- swam
- ate
- drank
- slept some more
- swam some more
- ate some more
- drank some more
- etc.

You get the idea...

You can read more about Christina and her travels here. Make sure to check out The States on The History Channel and make sure to get your travel blog from Real Travel, perhaps we'll spotlight you in the MobiBlog.