PAW; Pet-friendly Accommodations Worldwide provides a new resource for luxury, pet-friendly travel and criss-crosses the country spreading the word!
Janine Franceschi, owner of PAW; Pet-friendly Accommodations Worldwide, and her Irish setter, Beau, have logged over 5000 miles, (and counting) touring the country to promote the booking site of the only collection of luxury, pet-friendly hotels on the Web today, www.luxurypaw.com and they want to make sure YOU hear about PAW.
The dynamic duo travel the American highways and byways in their red “PAW”-print-adorned Honda Element, on loan from the Honda Corporation, on a mission to reshape the notion of pet-friendly travel, one hotel and one pet owner at a time. Their message? It is no longer necessary to sacrifice the level of amenity and comfort you want when you travel simply because you choose to travel with your pet. Finding and booking gorgeous pet-friendly hotels just got a whole lot easier!
Throughout the tour, Franceschi is staying as a guest at premiere 4-star-and-higher-rated hotels, experiencing their pet-friendliness and pet programs in order to provide insight to travelers on their just-for-pets luxury amenities. From Westin’s Heavenly Pet Bed to Keswick Hall’s (one of only six Orient-Express properties in the U.S.) fresh-baked, chicken-flavored doggie biscuits, Franceschi and Beau source and share the best hotels in the country catering to the needs and wants of pets of all sizes and their people. In addition, Franceschi highlights the best luxury, pet-friendly activities, shops, restaurants, and resources available in each city she and Beau visit on the ‘Canine Concierge’ pages of the site. Not only a time-saving resource, LuxuryPaw.com also makes booking your hotel room effortless through its affiliation with the Alliance Reservation Network.
PAW brings these industries — luxury travel and pets — together in an unprecedented way by offering a supplemental marketing vehicle for luxury hoteliers targeting affluent travelers who travel with their pets. “The response has been amazing,” says Franceschi. “Luxury hoteliers have created elaborate pet-friendly programs to cater to their existing guests and attract new guests but they neglected to create the distribution channels to get the information out there. I often hear, ‘What a great idea. I didn’t know you could bring your pet to this hotel, we had to send our dog to a kennel to come on this trip.” She continues, “My hope was to create a site to bridge that gap, to get the information out to affluent pet-owning travelers. For years now, low to moderate level of amenity hotels have been pet-friendly and travelers simply do not know that luxury travel with their pet is also an option, they think they have to choose between nice accommodations and their pet, and Beau and I are here to tell them that they don’t have to make that choice anymore!”
About PAW
PAW; Pet-friendly Accommodations Worldwide, LLC was created after Janine Franceschi spent countless hours searching in vain for luxury, (4-star or higher rated), pet-friendly hotels that would accept a 60lb dog. PAW is the only online hotel booking website that specializes in luxury, pet-friendly hotel accommodations and the first to let you search for a pet-friendly hotel by pet size policies at each hotel. Janine, and her 2-year old Irish Setter, Beau, have made it their mission to search out and identify luxury hotels with the highest level of pet-comfort and amenities. They are currently on a promotional tour around the country spotlighting the luxury pet-friendly hotels in your area!
Source: Avalon Communications
Ellen Barone is an American writer and wanderer. She co-founded and publishes the group travel blog YourLifeIsATrip.com and is currently at work on her first book "I Could Live Here".