EyeTour Puerto Rico Wins SME’s WebAD Award For Best Website 2009

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(Free-Press-Release.com) May 21, 2009 -- San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 18, 2009 – EyeTour.com, Puerto Rico’s Premier Online Video
Guide, won the 2009 WebAd Award for best website of the year, given by the Sales and
Marketing Executives Association (SME) of Puerto Rico.

This online tourist guide to Puerto Rico, the first of its kind in the Caribbean, promotes
the island as a world‐class destination through the Internet, taking advantage of the
technological advances, interactivity, and global reach provided by the medium. The

initiative, co‐founded by Juan Agustín Márquez, José Martí, and Alfredo Richner, began
as a 40‐point tour of Old San Juan. EyeTour.com currently hosts over 100 videos of
tourist attractions around the entire island, complemented by thousands of
photographs and high‐quality editorial content.

“EyeTour.com has become a unique online experience in the Caribbean, where visitors
can explore Puerto Rico’s best attractions, including historical sites, beaches, nature
reserves, museums, restaurants, and much more, through high‐quality videos, articles,

and photographs. Visitors can download videos to their iPods, iPhone or personal video
player of choice and realize our company’s vision: Be your own guide,” commented José Martí, President of Production for the company.

“We are working on making EyeTour.com’s unique audiovisual content available to the
public through other means. A DVD series of Puerto Rico’s greatest attractions is in
development, as well as a mobile application for the iPhone and iPod touch that will
take the tourist experience to a whole new level of interactivity,” mentioned Alfredo

Richner, President of Research & Development for EyeTour.com. “Also,” added Juan
Agustín Márquez, President of Sales, “we are reaching out to the local business owners
so they can advertise their services in the most innovative way possible – through our
online guide. We want every restaurant, tour operator, store, small and medium
business, parador, and hotel in Puerto Rico to form part of EyeTour.com.”

By June 2009, EyeTour.com will have reached some 150,000 visitors from around the
world with over half a million pages viewed this year. EyeTour.com launched on July 31,

2007 with the official support and sponsorship of the Puerto Rico Tourism Company.
That same year it won the EnterPRize Business Plan Competition, allowing the company
to focus on the project’s expansion and development of a new, more robust, and agile
website, which debuted December 2008 and was recently recognized as Best Website
by the SME.

The WebAd Awards recognize the best use of the Internet in five categories: 1) best
integration in a 360º campaign, 2) best integration in a public relations or non‐profit

campaign, 3) best integration in a promotional campaign, 4) best internet advertisement, and 5) best website. http://www.eyetour.com

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