Good afternoon, Carolina, and welcome to Tripatini! Great to have you with us -- and we think you'll find our site productive as well as interesting and enjoyable.

To get the most out of us, you may want to take a moment to join several of our many groups which you may find of particular interest, such as Travel Marketers/Publicists, Mexico, Resorts Corner, Chile, Italy, Beach-Bumming, Eating/Drinking the World, Wine Tourism, New York State, our Spanish language/culture club, and plenty of others covering many topics and most destinations across the the globe.

FYI, on your profile you'll see a green bar marked "Text Box," which you can turn into a box containing not just text but also photos and even videos about yourself, your interests, your travels, and your clients (you'll do yourself as well as our journalist members a favor by specifying your agency name).

Finally, if you would, please be so kind as to spread the word among your travel-interested friends, family, colleagues, associates, and clients. It's fast and easy to use our "INVITE" function above left on the navigation bar to enter e-mails (even your whole list at once!).

Thanks for joining us, Carolina; we wish you an outstanding rest of 2009 and look forward to seeing you online.

Cheers!