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Tweet to win a $50 Restaurant.com gift card!

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

Follow CheapTickets on TwitterWe’re celebrating great travel with a Twitter giveaway that’ll make any foodie smile. If you love to dine out, you won’t want to miss this Orbitz Twitter Giveaway and the chance to win a $50 Restautant.com gift card!

Here’s all you have to do to enter:

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1. Follow @Orbitz on Twitter (if you’re not doing so already)
2. Retweet the contest message posted on the @Orbitz Twitter page by Tuesday

We?ll announce the winner on the @Orbitz Twitter page. If it?s you, make sure to send a direct message via Twitter within 48 hours. Remember, all entries must be received by 8:59 a.m. CT on September 7, 2010.  Limit one entry per person/twitter address.

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Orbitz Twitter giveaway: Win a 7-day Disney vacation

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
Disney ©

Disney ©

Tweet your best Disney travel tip, and you could win a 7-night vacation package to Walt Disney World® Resort in Orlando, Florida.

This prize, worth $8,000, includes:

  • airfare for four
  • 7-night hotel stay in a Disney property
  • four 7-day Magic Your Way® theme park tickets with Park Hopper® AND Water Parks Fun & More options
  • $250 Disney gift certificate
  • admission to Cirque du Soleil® show for four
  • winner’s choice of spa treatment or round of golf

To enter the contest, follow @Orbitz on Twitter and tweet your best Disney travel tip, starting with #Orbitz by 10 a.m. CT March 18, 2010.

Our Disney committee will judge the tips based on originality, creativity and relevance. We’ll announce the winner on Twitter on March 25, 2010.

Ready, set, tweet!

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Orbitz says ‘thank you’ to Twitter followers

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

Thank you to everyone who participated in the Orbitz Twitter Giveaway! As a token of our appreciation, here's a special promo code for 15% off select hotels:

 THXTWITTER

Book by June 27, 2009 for travel by September 6, 2009.

Terms and conditions:

Book a qualifying hotel
between June 25, 2009, and June 27, 2009, for 1 or more night for travel between
June 25, 2009, and September 6, 2009, via Orbitz and instantly receive 15% off your booking
through the use of the promotion code.  To display qualifying hotels, click "I
have a promotion code." and enter the promotion code, then look for hotels
marked with the icon "COUPON."  Limit one discount per hotel room and one
promotion code per booking. Discount may not be used toward the booking of a
vacation package. Discounts are not redeemable for cash for any reason. Any
attempt at fraud will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Void where
prohibited, taxed or restricted. Orbitz reserves the right to change or limit the
promotion in its sole discretion.

Twitchhiker: One man’s story of travel by Twitter

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

Twitchhiker
By Kate Schwartz

It all began in the bread aisle of Paul Smith’s local supermarket. Somewhere between white and wheat, he decided it was time for an adventure. And not any ordinary adventure — Smith was determined to travel the world in 30 days without so much as buying a plane ticket or paying for a cab. He would rely solely on the kindness of people who follow him on Twitter, a social media micro-blogging site. Dubbing himself the “Twitchhiker,” Paul Smith set off from England to find out just how far the kindness and generosity of others can take you.

The adventure began in Smith’s hometown of Newcastle, and ended on Steward Island in New Zealand. Traveling by bus, train, air and car, Twitchiker made his way across the map. This 11,000-mile journey took him through Europe, the United States and finally on to New Zealand. Along the way he raised money for charity: water, a non-profit organization bringing clean, safe drinking water to people in developing nations.

I had the opportunity to meet the infamous Twitchhiker when Orbitz Worldwide flew him from Pittsburgh to Chicago. My colleague and I had been communicating with him for some time via Twitter and were eager to learn about his adventures first hand. Although exhausted and somewhat frustrated by his experience in Pittsburgh, he was good company. Over beers, pizza — and then more beers — he shared the story of the journey thus far and his hopes for the road ahead.

Smith’s journey is a testament to many things — the power of human kindness, as well as the actualization of social media. As he so eloquently put it, "The Twitchhiker project showed that kindness is universal, that the whole can be infinitely greater than the sum of its parts, and that social media may begin online but it will converge with the real world whenever and wherever you let it."

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Kate Schwartz works on the Marketing team at Orbitz Worldwide. When she’s not tweeting about the latest travel deals, she’s out taking advantage of them. From hiking the Rockies to lounging on the beaches of Barcelona, Kate is always looking for her next adventure. Follow her at http://twitter.com/OrbitzGal