Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Valparaiso finally gets it together

Check out Valparaiso's new tourism website.

After the gorgeous intro, you can toggle into English on the right middle of the page.

The English translation is choppy in bits but overall I'm thrilled with this site. It is comprehensive, and more than that, it represets Valparaiso more or less accurately. It has been an unending frustration to me that most of Valparaiso's marketing is led by people who seem to think that what the city is is not worth visiting. Instead, they take a picture of something that makes the city look like a resort and then gloss over everything that makes the city amazing and unique. It is really exciting to see a website that embraces Valparaiso's identity. There are still overtones of the same old apologetics...but in general, this website is a solid effort to connect the city with the people who are interested in it for what it really is.

Bravo.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Enjoying the site...lots of helpful info...thanks