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Here's Your Chance To Become A Travel Writer, And Visit Tokyo For Free
Do you enjoy writing about travel just as much as you love reading about other's adventures? Or perhaps you just dream of getting paid to travel. Whatever you motivation, Rough Guide, in conjunction with Hotels.com, WorldNomads.com and Intrepid Travel, might have the perfect, Tokyo-bound deal for you.
It's a travel writing scholarship of sorts, except you don't need to be a student. In order to win an all-expenses-paid, week-long trip to Tokyo for the purpose of updating the Rough Guides Tokyo book, along with travel writing instruction from Rough Guides writer Simon Richmond, you must be 18 and up, be a non-professional writer with a love of travel and a valid passport, and available to travel in February 2010.
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Tourism Vancouver Stirring Up Olympic Hype With Free Trips
Have you been watching the Olympic countdown on Vancouver2010.com? With less than three months to go before the Winter Olympics, we've already seen promos for the "Today" show's trip to Vancouver in February, but Tourism Vancouver wants to make sure that Matt, Meredith and Al aren't the only ones in town for the games.
Tourism Vancouver's Olympic Sweepstakes is offering up three prizes for people who sign up for their monthly newsletter. The gold prize—relating to Olympics medals, of course—is a deluxe Olympic package including tickets to alpine skiing and the closing ceremony, plus plane tickets and a hotel room. Not that Silver and Bronze are too shabby either, with hockey qualifying tickets and a Wii up for grabs.
While you plan your trip to Vancouver, you can follow along on the torch's journey with an interactive map. It's in Prince Edward Island now but may be coming to your town soon, if you're lucky enough to be in Canada.
Related Stories:
· Sign up for the Tourism Vancouver monthly newsletter here. [TourismVancouver.com]
· Is It Time To Start Booking Rooms For the Vancouver Olympics? (YES.) [HC]
· LGet Thee To The Jetty: A Perfect Plane Spotting In Vancouver [Jaunted]
[Photo of the Olympic Village under construction: roland]
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If You Can Design A T-Shirt, You Can Win 11 Days In Australia
Tired of the colder temperatures and all the leaves to be raked already? It's spring in Australia! But of course, heading Down Under costs a pretty penny, and for creatives it most likely remains a dream destination. That's where Threadless and STA Travel step in with their "Threadless Loves Travel II" contest. Last year's winner got a trip to Iceland, $2,000 in cash, and slew of other perks. This year they're looking to a warmer destination by giving away an 11-day trip to Australia, new luggage, headphones, a $500 Threadless gift card, and the $2,000 in cash.
So how do you enter and win? Break out your best graphic design, drawing, or photoshopping skills to create a T-shirt inspired by travel. If it wins the most votes, it's Australia here you come. So far only six designs have been submitted, so the odds are good. Here's the design that won last year, for a little inspiration, but we know you can do better with Australia at stake. Submissions are accepted until December 2, so get brainstorming!
Related Stories:
· Threadless Loves Travel II [Threadless]
· Threadless Loves Travel I (Winner) [Threadless]
· Travel Contests coverage [Jaunted]
[Photo: winning design for Threadless Loves Travel I]
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Relive 'Carmen Sandiego' With Lufthansa's 'Virtual Pilot II' Game
Were you a huge fan of Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego? Or maybe you just have a thing for geography? Well, Lufthansa totally understands and they're rekindling a bit of the Carmen Sandiago adrenaline with their second version of the geography trivia web game "Virtual Pilot."
In Virtual Pilot 1, you'd be given a city name and you'd have to click on a map in order to "land your plane" as close to there as possible. The first round showed city dots and country borders, the second round only had country borders, and the third round only gave you land masses to go by. We fared pretty well on it, but Virtual Pilot II is kicking our butt hardcore.
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Hate Paying A Lot (Or At All) For Rental Cars? This Contest Is For You
Alright, so we might be winging our way to St. Lucia right now Jetblue, but we swear they didn't tell us to tell you about this contest; that's just what we do—pass on news about free travel stuff to you. And you might want to consider entering the airline's new "Jet & Drive Giveaway," if you like the idea of possibly winning free travel.
The contest, which just barely began and runs through January 31, 2010, is the fruit of a partnership between Jetblue and Hertz, and Marriott and Starwood to a lesser extent. The deal is: you enter your info on their contest page and the page keeps a running tally on how many have entered. Each day, Jetblue will give away a $100 Hertz certificate, but if the day's tally manages to pass 2,500 or even 5,000, then they'll tack on giveaways of a $2500 Hertz certificate and a $500 Jetblue gift card, respectively. But the prizes just get sweeter from there...
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YSL Will Send You To Paris For New Years, If You Prove 'Parisienne'
Ahh, New Years in Paris, what a fantasy trip that would be. Although we got the dream New Years vacation out of the way a few years ago in Venice, it doesn't mean that we can't lust after the combination of fashion and free travel that the new contest from Yves Saint Laurent offers.
Here's the details, for all you wannabe holiday jetsetters: YSL is launching a new fragrance called Parisienne and they've devoted a mini-site to it, complete with a blog of Paris travel tips. To win a trip for two to Paris for New Years, you must also share a story and photos, specifically "about how you have experienced the spirit of Parisienne in your own life." There's also a chance of winning a YSL handbag and Beaute products, but we'll just take the trip thanks.
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Brits Can Win Their Dream Break With 20 Words Or Less
We like winning stuff, so we pricked up our ears when we heard that UK-based travel booking site superbreak is running the Build Your Dream Break contest. You could win the chance to create your own short vacation—up to the value of £1,000 ($1,600), anyway.
The contest closes on October 31 and involves describing what your dream break would be like in 20 words or less. It might sound simple, but we think that it'd take us a few more sentences than that to explain our dreams. Although if you check the terms and conditions it sounds like the winner will be drawn at random, so perhaps the quality of your 20 words isn't all that important.
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Folgers' Coffee Contest Wants To Send You On A Holiday Vacation
Got your ticket for Thanksgiving (American or Canadian varieties) yet? Making holiday plans with your folks? What are you doing on New Year's, New Year's Eve? The last six weeks of the year may be the most wonderful time, but the risks of it going all "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" are many.
That's why as much as we enjoy playing the naysayer, we love Folgers' new "Home For The Holidays" Contest starting September 30. The coffee company is giving five lucky travelers seven-day trips within the lower 48 for themselves and three other guests in December—flight, hotel, rental car and $1,000 pocket money to spoil the ones you love. All you have to enter is go to Folgers.com next week and whip up your entry on "the best part of wakin’ up at home during the holidays" by November 7th. Then pack your bags and your presents!
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And The Winner Of The Virgin America Companion Pass Is...
A big jet set congratulations to @techlifeweb, who was randomly selected as the lucky winner of a Virgin America companion pass!
If you missed out on our 24-hour Twitter contest this time, follow us on Twitter @Jaunted and keep watch for more in the future. We're not only all over the globe, but all over social networking.
Wonder what we're even talking about? See the original contest post here. A big Thank You to all of you old and new followers, and have a great weekend!
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· Jaunted on Twitter [Twitter]
· Win A Free Companion Ticket On Virgin American From Jaunted [Jaunted]
· Virgin America Coverage [Jaunted]
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Win A Free Companion Ticket On Virgin America From Jaunted
Update 08/14: We've selected our winner! Thanks for entering and stay tuned in the future for more awesome stuff!
Are you aching to fly Virgin America, especially now that they've announced their SFO and LAX direct routes to the sandy shores of Fort Lauderdale? Well, warm up those twittering fingers because to celebrate our reaching 3,000 followers on Twitter, we're giving away a free companion ticket on Virgin America.
And we're giving it away 24 hours from now, so pay attention:
How to enter:
Follow us on Twitter at @Jaunted and retweet this contest tweet. That's it; we'll randomly choose a follower who has retweeted the contest and send you a code to be used to score a 2-for-1 deal on VA.
The Prize:
A Buy-1-Get-1-Free code on valid for one round-trip of two people to anywhere Virgin America flies. Choose to fly in the main cabin or main cabin select, but sadly it doesn't apply to First Class.
Continue on for the Terms & Conditions ...
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'Best Job In The World' Winner Ben Southall Looking For Four Assistants
We're already almost two months into Brit Ben Southall's six-month term as "Island Caretaker" of Queensland's Hamilton Island, and he's definitely received more criticism than praise for his work showcasing his travels around the islands of the Great Barrier Reef. This privilege to travel around, live in, and document a paradise on earth is the result of his winning Tourism Queensland's contest to fill the position dubbed "Best Job In The World."
Apparently, the hours have been long and the fun too time-consuming, and Ben hasn't been the best at his job requirements of blogging, twittering and vlogging his experiences. So he's seeking four assistants! It's your second chance at "The Best Job In The World," even if it's really just the second best job in the world.
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Tweet Every Minute Of 3 Days In Sydney To Win Round-The-World Tickets
Rejoice, fellow Americans! V Australia hasn't forgotten about us and they're actually reversing their 4320 Twitter contest of last month to send some us Yanks down under.
Here's a little background on the contest: Only a month ago, V Australia decided to draw attention to their Sydney to Los Angeles route by running a contest to send some Aussies to LA if they'd promise to Twitter every minute of their time there. The amount of tweets, equal to the amount of minutes spent in LA, was 4320, and a trio of guys successfully completed the mission a little over two weeks ago, winning around-the-world tickets for themselves.
Now it's our turn, with 15 more days to tweet an entry on their website before they choose another group to tweet 4320 times over three days in Sydney. Obviously the opera house will be involved, and probably some shrimp on a barbie, but we'll most enticed by the promise of those around-the-world tickets. Take us along if you win? We're pretty good at twittering already.
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· 4320 Sydney Contest [V Australia]
· V Australia Invites American To Tweet Down Under [Adverblog]
· V Australia Coverage [Jaunted]
[Image: V Australia]
