WritingTravellers.com - Instantaneous Travel Info

“WritingTravellers brings people together to write guidebooks that will be published on-line and in print. The printed guidebooks will be more up-to-date and more tailor-made than regular guidebooks. Anyone can contribute texts or pictures and will get credits for it. The first guides that will be ready for print are Amsterdam and Delhi.



WritingTravellers is a non profit foundation based in Amsterdam. It offers free, on-line access to travel guide information and stimulates travellers to improve this information all the time. The foundation works together with a company that prints up-to-date personalized guidebooks from the database, each time someone orders a guidebook. Part of the income that is generated this way flows back into the WritingTravellers foundation, so it can go on providing free on-line travel guide information”

WritingTravellers could be a useful source for up-to-the-minute travel information, since its Wiki-style design lets anyone comment on a location at any time.

WritingTravellers has a way to go to be in the same ballpark as other large travel sites like Lonely Planet. The destination guides are yet limited in both geography and scope. It would be extremely helpful if WritingTravellers could incorporate Google Earth, or at the very least, Google Maps, so that photos of certain exact destinations could be included in location descriptions.