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==World-wide travel guide==
A wiki travel guide! '''Wikitravel.org''' is creating a free, complete, up-to-date, and reliable world-wide {{tag|travel}} guide.  So far they have several thousand destination guides and other articles written and edited by [http://wikitravel.org/en/Wikitravel:Wikitravellers Wikitravellers] from around the globe (some of whom just sit at home describing what's good about their surroundings).


== world wide travel guide ==
One of the more interesting [http://wikitravel.org/en/Wikitravel:Goals_and_non-goals project goals] is to create destination guides which are useful as print-outs, i.e. not always linking to sub-pages, but distilling the most useful information about each travel destination.  For a good example see the "destination of the month" on the [http://wikitravel.org/en/Main_Page main page]


A wiki travel guide! '''Wikitravel.org''' is creating a free, complete, up-to-date, and reliable world-wide {{tag|travel}} guide. So far they have several thousand destination guides and other articles written and edited by [http://wikitravel.org/en/Wikitravel:Wikitravellers Wikitravellers] from around the globe (some of whom just sit at home describing what's good about their surroundings).
In April 2006, Wikitravel and [[World66]], both open content wiki travel guides, were acquired by Internet Brands, Inc., an {{tag|United States|American}} company that operates a number of consumer information websites. [http://investors.internetbrands.com/releases.cfm?Year=2006] [http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=27587 ''broken link as of 2010-07-09?'']


One of the more interesting [http://wikitravel.org/en/Wikitravel:Goals_and_non-goals project goals] is to create destination guides which are useful as print-outs, i.e. not always linking to sub-pages, but distilling the most useful information about each travel destination. For a good example see the "destination of the month" on the [http://wikitravel.org/en/Main_Page main page]
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In April 2006, Wikitravel and [[World66]], both open content wiki travel guides, were acquired by Internet Brands, Inc., an American company that operates a number of consumer information websites. [http://investors.internetbrands.com/releases.cfm?Year=2006] [http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=27587 ''broken link as of 2010-07-09?'']
==See also==
*[[Wikivoyage]], a fork done by some german Wikitravellers, which aims to be a non-commercial alternative with transparent and democratic internal structures.
*[[OpenSeaMap]]


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== See also ==
* [[Wikivoyage]], a fork done by some german Wikitravellers, which aims to be a non-commercial alternative with transparent and democratic internal structures.
* [[OpenSeaMap]]
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