Travellerspoint

Travellerspoint is a social networking site for people who want to learn from or share experiences with other travellers. Members of the site participate through forums, blogs, photo galleries and a wiki travel guide.

Major Features

• Forums: Members discuss their travel experiences in several several destination and topic related forums.

• Travel Guide: A custom built wiki in which users can edit destination information to help assist potential visitors.

• Blogs: An integrated blogging system allowing users to post content to their own Travellerspoint subdomain.

• Photography: Users upload photos of their trips. The best photos are manually featured and displayed throughout the site.

• Travel Maps: A mapping system that allows users to plot their trip's itinerary on a world map. It is interlinked with the photos and blogs. A user's map integrates their photography and blog entries through geotagging. In March 2007, Travellerspoint travel maps were nominated in the category of Best Use of Social Media for the Travolution Awards.^[1]

• Travel Helpers: An early addition to the Travellerspoint set of services was a Travel Helper system, which allowed members to sign up as travel helpers for any number of countries. There are currently over 3000 travel helpers.^[2]

External Reviews

Travellerspoint has been mentioned and recommended by BBC World, ^[3] The Guardian,^[4] USA Today,^[5] The Washington Post,^[6] The Sydney Morning Herald,^[7], The Age^[8] and the MX^[9]. In 2004, it was named the "Best Online-Only Agency" by Travelmole in their annual Travel & Tourism Web Awards, winning out over Travelocity and Opodo.^[10]