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Northstar Acquires Your Travel Insider

Jun 24, 2013

Northstar Travel Media recently acquired Your Travel Insider, a digital publishing firm focused on the consumer travel market. Your Travel Insider publishes the e-newsletters Your Travel Insider, Luxury Cruise News and Your Travel Insider – Travel Tools for an audience of more than 1 million travelers. With the acquisition, Roy Weiss, founder of Your Travel Insider, will become group publisher of Your Travel Insider.

“The addition of Your Travel Insider provides Northstar with a significant position in the consumer travel database market to complement our leadership in the travel trade industry,” said Thomas Kemp, chairman and CEO of Northstar Travel Media. “We’re very pleased that Roy [Weiss] and his talented team will be working in partnership with us to grow Your Travel Insider’s subscriber base, expand its digital footprint and continue to work with their base of blue-chip clients.”

Northstar Travel Media is the parent company of TravelAge West. www.northstartravelmedia.com, www.yourtravelinsider.com

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