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Travel Industries Most Successful Tourism Destination Nightlife/Entertainment Package Developer Chooses New Orleans Next!

New Orleans, Louisianaree Crawford, Founder/CEO of VIP Passport Destinations Group, Inc. www.vip-passport.com & Managing Partner of Vegas-Passport, LLC., has announced that the next city slated for development of a highly successful “VIP Passport” entertainment/nightlife tourism package will be New Orleans.  This announcement comes after the successful launch of San Diego VIP Passport this past month, www.sandiego-passport.com , and continued growth and success of Vegas-Passport; www.vegas-passport.com . New Orleans will be next in a massive 28 city, international expansion of a successful business model, which uniquely packages: VIP nightlife, dining, and attraction experiences for tourist/visitors with access for sale through the world’s largest travel retailers including: Expedia, Orbitz, Travelocity, VIATOR, Southwest Airlines Vacations, Mark Travel Corp., Liberty Travel Group, Go Go Travel, Travel

 

Impressions (American Express), Virgin Atlantic Airlines, US Air/American West Airlines, Allegiant Air, World Wide Travel Exchange, MLT Travel, Continental Airlines, Travel Worm, and many more!

Crawford will deploy in New Orleans soon after the Mardi Gras’, and begin development of a New Orleans VIP Passport product, which will feature a “taste-of” the city’s nightlife, including VIP access to French Quarter, Riverfront, and Warehouse District nightclubs, restaurants, retail shops, and other after dark experiences. The decision to put all company resources into New Orleans before bigger market cities like New York, Miami, San Francisco etc. came after a week-long visit just prior to Christmas. “I have always had a love-affair with this city,” Crawford stated when asked about his decision, “I had not been down to NOLA post-Katrina. I came down to see for myself what was what. Surprisingly, ALL the areas that I had and would in the future come to NOLA to see, were just as I had remembered on other trips years ago Pre-Katrina. They (the media) made me and I feel many of us,  think it (NOLA) was all in a shambles… but, the French Quarter and other areas that tourists would venture seemed to be untouched!” At this point Cree made it a mission to both professionally and personally do whatever he could to spread the word that New Orleans is OPEN for tourists and business!

The VIP Passport program for New Orleans will be the vehicle Crawford will use to spread the word that New Orleans is OPEN and READY for business! Cree says. The VIP Passport program will promote local New Orleans: nightlife, dining, specialty retail, and other localized businesses in a uniquely packaged box.

“I am not belittling ANY of the horrible tragedy that happened to this beautiful, historic city. I was taken on a tour of the 9 th ward and other areas hit hard by Katrina. I experienced a sick-feeling imagining what these people must have experienced when the levies opened-up…The devastation in these residential areas is truly unfathomable without seeing first hand.” We should NEVER forget what happened, but if New Orleans is going to get herself an opportunity to come back to her full glory as a major US tourism destination, MORE must be done to get word the word out that there is NOTHING WRONG with the French Quarter, The Riverfront, or Warehouse District. It is ready for tourists! Crawford feels that the best thing we can do for New Orleans is to come down and pay “her” a visit! “NOLA has some of this countries BEST nightlife, music and dining. The offerings for entertainment are as strong as they have ever been. New Orleans is a feast for all your senses and you better bring your appetite for all of em.” Crawford says.  He spoke with many business owners, City / State Employees and residents. The common theme that kept popping up was that no-one there was looking for a hand-out. “Don’t send money,” they all said, “Come on down and SPEND money!....Come down and experience some of the warmest hospitality of any city!”    

Cree Crawford through the creation of the VIP Passport has become one of the travel industries premier developers of destination VIP experience packages called  “Travel Extras” by industry insiders. Vegas-Passport, LLC was founded 3 years ago by Crawford and Partners: Ryan Doherty & Justin Weniger. He has successfully expanded the business model to San Diego and will soon expand to: New Orleans, other major US, Mexican, Caribbean, major European, and Asian city destinations. He created VIP Passport Destinations Group as the parent company to head the expansion of this business model to major destination cities. 

Corporate Background
 
VIP Passport Destinations Group (VPDG) is a marketing / tourism package development company that has successfully combined the popular and lucrative NIGHTCLUB / NIGHTLIFE industry with the ever growing TRAVEL / TOURISM markets to create a successful and profitable product line of unique travel destination experience packages. These packages, called “VIP-Passports” are marketed and sold through an extensive network of the world’s largest and most popular retail travel / tourism / airline companies that the Founder, Cree Crawford has contracted with over the last 3 years. Our “Travel Partners” i.e. Expedia, Viator, Orbitz/Travelport, Travelocity, Mark Travel, US Airlines, Virgin Atlantic Airlines, Northwest Airlines, Go Go Travel, Liberty Travel, and many more,  have officially endorsed and will contract with us to market and sell VIP Passport packages develop for all destination cities we expand our business model.

Win Win…Win Value Proposition

VIP Passport Destinations Group, Inc. provides key benefits to the three (3) integral groups:

• It offers visitor/tourists “VIP Passport Patrons”, an extremely high-value-to-cost, pre-tested/organized experience package which caters to their appetite for night life and their desire to feel special.
• It offers local entertainment and night-life businesses a creative, effective and attractive marketing program which strategically and cost effectively targets the valuable TOURISM MARKET with excess money to spend.
• It offers major travel / tourism companies a high profit margin product line, which in-turn gets preferential exposure on their various sales / marketing channels.

VIP Passport Destinations Group, Inc.’s Passports give visitors a veritable “best taste of” a city’s nightlife including the ability to: cut the "velvet rope", get treated like a LOCAL Insider, and share in promotional specials for a plethora of offers in a destination city location’s nightlife, restaurants, and other localized businesses, services, and events.

The benefits to the Passport holder are many, including: VIP Admission Cover Included Passes (pre-paid credentials, avoiding having to wait in line for access to the most popular nightclubs), VIP seating at restaurants, special dining and drink promotions / discounts,  and  receive other valuable discounts, gifts, and informational materials.

This a package a local would give to a visiting friend as a “GUIDE/GIFT” to ensure their friends enjoyed an incredible experience with their city’s nightlife! 

Local Partners Create a REAL Local Experience:
VPDG partners with clubs, restaurants, and other businesses in each city. Its Passports offer “venue-partners” major exposure and promotion to the VERY LUCRATIVE travel/tourism market, in the form of a highly marketable and versatile package. Each “VIP Passport” package contains high-gloss quality flyers, postcards, passes and other promotional swag, that allows participating venues the opportunity to promote themselves as uniquely as the properties themselves. VIP Passport Destinations Group, Inc. encourages its partners to get as creative and competitive with their offerings as they can, thus creating an even more valuable package for VIP Passport patrons.

In best efforts to keep the packages true to form, VPDG will create the “best of” LOCAL DEVELOPED experience, by partnering with, and offering equity in each local market to a “Local Expert/Partner”. This Local Partner will meet a very stringent qualification matrix. They must be familiar with and have extensive contacts and business experience in a market’s nightlife, dining, and entertainment sectors. This strategy not only creates a truly local product line, but expedites the launch of each city market.

* This model has been proven successful in Las Vegas and San Diego and, VPDG is currently developing NEW markets including: New Orleans, San Francisco, Miami, New York, Cabo, San Juan PR, Chicago, USVI, London, Paris, Rome, Prague, Sydney, and many more.



*Industry Contacts Available Upon Request for Quotes / Sound-bytes
  Contact: Cree Crawford (available for follow-up, TV, or Radio)
  VIP Passport Destinations Group, Inc.
  702-498-6242 Direct
  702-868-4552
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  www.vip-passport.com / www.vegas-passport.com / www.sandiego-passport.com

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