Move One Rolls Out Shanghai Virtual City Guide

Online, March 19, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Move One has recently rolled out the sixth of its online City Guides (www.moveoneinc.com/city-guide) developed to provide recently arrived expatriates a full suite of indispensable information about life in their new city.

The Shanghai guide, like the others in the series, has at its centerpiece a set of mini documentaries, covering subjects such as health care, transport, housing and schools. Each film is accompanied by a set of useful Internet resources, gathering together in one place a whole host of information that expats would otherwise have to search for themselves.

Move One's head of destination services Jon Harman said: 'Traditional paper destination guides were expensive to produce, became out of date quickly, and were difficult to amend. The virtue of producing online guides is that our assignees and clients get an up to date, detailed and concise resource to make settling in to a new city a pleasant experience.'

'People usually seek information out on the web, but the type of information we have in our city guides, like how to validate public transport tickets and parking meters, or how to deal with local landlords, isn't readily available. We have taken great care to document the minutiae of life in these guides, and have included interviews with other expats and profiles of local business people and packaged it in a convenient way for people to use in the run up to their move. We believe that we have created a fantastic resource to help ease expats into their new lives as seamlessly as possible.'

Martha Lloyd, a British expat, used the Budapest guide when her husband's work took their family to Hungary: 'These guides were invaluable. Prior to moving, we sat as a family and watched them. It was especially reassuring for our son to see videos of his new school. It went a long way to convince him that he would make new friends and that his new school was just like at home! It gave us information like what to expect from local landlords, information on the health care options, right down to interviews with local doctors.'

'On other moves abroad, we had been given guide booklets, which were useful to a point, but a lot of information was inconsistent and often out of date, and it wasn't as convenient a way of finding what we needed to know. I've had friends here who had been given nothing more than an A4 sheet with taxi numbers and details of the nearest Indian takeaway!'

Move One managing director, Curt Clements added: 'In producing the guides, Move One aims not only to provide the information in a more convenient package, but also to empower the assignee, and allow them to make the most out of their stay. Move One's number one goal is to make relocation an easier process, and these guides go a long way to achieving this.'

Move One currently has six guides live: Budapest, Moscow, Prague, Bratislava, Warsaw and Shanghai with work on guides for Bucharest, Belgrade, Kiev, Dubai and Abu Dhabi well under way.