Travellerspoint
{{Short description|Australian travel website}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}}
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|logo = Travellerspoint (logo).png
|logo_size = 280px
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|logo_caption = Travellerspoint logo
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|type = Travel guide
|language = English
|registration =
|headquarters = Australia
|area_served = Worldwide
|owner = Tupela Ltd AS
|author = {{Ubl
| Samuel Daams
| Peter Daams
}}
|url = {{URL|https://travellerspoint.com}}
|launch_date = {{Start date and age|2002|df=y}}
|current_status = Active
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Travellerspoint is a travel and 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, similar to Wikivoyage.
Features
- Forums: members discuss their travel experiences in several destination and topic related forums.
- Travel guide: a custom built wiki 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 Kiva.
- Blogs: an integrated blogging system allowing users to post content to their own Travellerspoint subdomain.
- 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 geotagging. In March 2007, Travellerspoint travel maps were nominated in the category of 'Best Use of Social Media' for the Travolution Awards.{{Cite web|url=http://Travolution.blogspot.com/2007/03/travolution-awards-shortlist-announced.html|title=Travolution blog|website=Travolution.blogspot.com|date=March 2007}}
- Travel planner: a travel planning 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.Travellerspoint.com/stats.cfm|title=Travellerspoint Statistics|website=www.Travellerspoint.com}}