NEWTON, Mass., April 26 /PRNewswire/ -- TripAdvisor®, the world's most popular and largest travel community, today announced the launch of TripWow, an innovative, easy-to-use, free travel slideshow. In minutes, travelers can create a jaw-dropping slideshow, bringing their vacation photos to life with dazzling visual effects, animated maps, captions, music and more.

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Creating a cinematic slideshow with TripWow is incredibly easy and fast: travelers simply upload photos and enter where they traveled. TripWow does the rest. One user was able to upload and tag photos from a recent Las Vegas vacation and create a professional-looking slideshow in just 28 seconds.

TripWow videos can be easily shared with friends and family via e-mail or social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. Travelers can also embed their slideshow in websites or blogs.

To quickly and easily build an impressive TripWow slideshow, travelers can visit http://tripwow.tripadvisor.com.

"Now for the first time, travelers have the option to effortlessly turn ordinary vacation photos into a dazzling slideshow to share with friends and family," said Christine Petersen, chief marketing officer for TripAdvisor. "TripWow unleashes the true potential of travel photos and replaces standard, boring vacation slideshows with a dazzling mini-film of travel memories."

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*Source: comScore Media Metrix, Worldwide, March 2010

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