Travellerspoint is a travel and

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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

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, similar to

Wikivoyage Wikivoyage is a free web-based travel guide for travel destinations and travel topics written by volunteer authors. It is a sister project of Wikipedia and supported and hosted by the same non-profit Wikimedia Foundation (WMF). Wikivoyage has ...

Features

*Forums: members discuss their

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experiences in several destination and topic related forums. *Travel guide: a custom built

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in which users can edit information to help assist potential visitors; contributors are able to share in the revenue from advertising, or opt to use their share to lend through

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. *Blogs: an integrated

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ging system allowing users to post content to their own Travellerspoint

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. *Photography: users can upload unlimited photos of their trips; the best photos are manually featured and displayed throughout the site. *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

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. In March 2007, Travellerspoint travel maps were nominated in the category of 'Best Use of Social Media' for the Travolution Awards. *Travel planner: a

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ning tool that integrates with the above mapping tool; allows the planning of future trips and collaboration with other members. *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.

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