Travellerspoint

Travellerspoint

Infobox Website
name = Travellerspoint



caption =
url = http://www.travellerspoint.com
commercial =
type = Social network service
language = English
registration =
owner = Tupela Ltd AS
author = Samuel and Peter Daams
launch date = 2002
current status = Active
revenue =

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. [ [http://travolution.blogspot.com/2007/03/travolution-awards-shortlist-announced.html Travolution blog] ]

*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. [ [http://www.travellerspoint.com/stats.cfm Travellerspoint Statistics] ]

External Reviews

Travellerspoint has been mentioned and recommended by BBC World, cite web
url=http://www.bbcworld.com/content/clickonline_archive_08_2003.asp?pageid=666&co_pageid=6
title=Click Surf
date=27
month=February
year=2003
accessdate=2007-01-09
] "The Guardian",cite web
url=http://travel.guardian.co.uk/article/2005/dec/24/guardiansaturdaytravelsection2
title=How to DIY: Ski Easy
author=Sean Dodson
date=24
month=December
year=2005
accessdate=2007-01-09
] "USA Today",cite web
url=http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/hotsites/2005/2005-03-04-hotsites.htm
title=Hot sites
date=4
month=March
year=2005
accessdate=2007-01-09
] "The Washington Post", ['Dining alone', "Washington Post", (9 March 2003)] "The Sydney Morning Herald", [Maria Nguyen, 'Quills and Spills', "Sydney Morning Herald", (14 September 2002)] , "The Age" ['Greenland', "The Age", (29 May 2005)] and the "MX" ['World Wide Web', "MX: Escape", (13 March 2007)] . 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.cite web
url=http://www.travelmole.com/stories/100481.php?news_cat=&pagename=searchresult
title=TravelMole announces 2004 web awards winners
month=May
year=2004
accessdate=2007-01-09
]

ee also

* List of social networking websites

References


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

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