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Oregon Beach Vacations Adds Online Video Community and Blog




Oregon Beach Vacations

Portland, OR (PRWEB) January 13, 2009

Oregon Beach Vacations, the leader in vacation rentals along Oregon’s magnificent coastline, has recently added an interactive video community and blog to their website: www.OregonBeachVacations.com.

The interactive video pages currently have several videos that can be watched and linked to online. They represent a variety of subjects that will appeal to people interested in visiting the Oregon Coast. Topics include whale watching in Depoe Bay, Glass Blowing in Lincoln City, Fantastic Food Choices in Cannon Beach as well as information on properties and specials offered by Oregon Beach Vacations.

Oregon Beach Vacations encourages others to upload videos that would be interesting to travelers to the Oregon Coast through an easy to use interface. Videos can be uploaded in any number of popular video formats (.avi; .wmv; .mpeg; .mp4; .mov, .flv) up to 50 mb in size. Other opportunities offered by the Oregon Beach Vacations video pages include setting up playlists, sending links to friends and embedding the videos on your own website or blog.

‘Escape To The Oregon Coast’ is the title of the blog now published by Oregon Beach Vacations. The blog gives people interested in visiting the Oregon Coast more information about things to do in the area. From Winter Whale Watching to planning a memorable holiday or get-a-way the blog provides useful information for travelers.

“Our goal has always been to not only be the leader in providing the best professionally managed vacation properties along the Oregon Coast but to also provide the best experience possible for our clients. To that end, our team is always looking for new ways to provide valuable information to people interested in traveling to our area. Our interactive online video pages and our new blog are just some of the ways we are reaching these goals. We believe that the entire online experience that we provide on our website is a boon to our clients and homeowners as well as the vacation rental industry in Oregon,” stated David McElveen of Oregon Beach Vacations.

Oregon Beach Vacations is a Portland, Oregon based company and is owned by River City Travel which is Oregon’s second largest travel agency handling the corporate travel needs of Oregon companies. Both River City Travel and Oregon Beach Vacations are owned by David McElveen and Joe Murray. Oregon Beach Vacations currently offers more than 200 professionally managed vacation rental homes and condominiums and is poised to expand to offer more properties in the near future.

Oregon Beach Vacations has four offices including their corporate office in Portland. All offices can be reached via telephone at 800-723-2383 or 503-528-7480.


The Lincoln City office employs twenty full-time team members, a number which expands greatly during the height of the vacation rental season. That office has homes for coastal vacationers in Pacific City, Lincoln City, Depoe Bay, Newport, Waldport and Yachats.

The Cannon Beach office offers vacation homes from Manzanita to Astoria – including Gearhart, Seaside, Cannon Beach and Rockaway Beach. Oregon Beach Vacation Rentals is actively pursuing more vacation rentals along the North Oregon Coast – interested homeowners should view or download the Oregon Beach Vacations Homeowner Brochure.

The Florence office currently manages thirty condominiums in the North Bay Condominium Complex and will be the focal point of the South Oregon Coast Expansion.

More information about the vacation rental offerings of Oregon Beach Vacations can be found at www.OregonBeachVacations.com. The website includes real-time online booking; Lincoln City webcam; an innovative GuestAdVantage™ Program; pictures and descriptions rental properties; (luxury properties, featured properties, large group properties, pet friendly properties and condos) ; specials; area information and much more.

About Oregon Beach Vacations

Oregon Beach Vacations was founded in 2004. The owners, David McElveen and Joe Murray, envisioned building a premier vacation rental company on the Oregon coast. Today, Oregon Beach Vacations operates four offices and manages over 200 vacation rental properties. The company is owned and operated by River City Travel, Oregon’s second largest travel agency which includes a staff of over 85 team members in Oregon and Washington State with combined sales of over 40 million dollars per year. Benefits for homeowners include an aggressive marketing campaign that reaches over two million potential guests weekly; marketing agreements with over 4,000 travel agents worldwide and 24/7 availability. For more information, please visit www.OregonBeachVacations.com or call 800-723-2383.

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