CityVox is your friend in France to find where to get out about town

Here’s a great site, available in 260 cities in France, when you’re looking for a great place to go eat, see a play, hear music, for you and your children.  It’s called CityVox and their headquarters are in Marseille, believe it or not! They’re also present in 300 other cities throughout Europe.

It’s a smart blend of Web 1.0 and 2.0 approaches.  It provides a list of  all restaurants, hotels, theatres, clubs and other venues in your town, with useful information on the style and the location.  There’s a special Children section with shows and some activities. It also allows members to post comments on all events and restaurants, so you get that web 2.0 flavour that makes it that much more useful.

It’s also available in other languages, although with quite erratic ‘localizations’, ie, be prepared for a steady mix of English and French in the English version. Also, since there are few comments in other languages, the site first pulls up those venues with comments in the language you’re surfing in but then shows comments in French.

So surfing in French is the way to get the best access to user insight because it pulls up first the venues with the most positive comments in French, therefore drawing from the largest sample, but then again, contributing to the other language sites will only make them more useful… Tough choice for the international parent in you!

– > Cityvox in English
–> Cityvox en Espanol
–> CityVox en Italiano
– > Cityvox en Deutsch

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