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'''Wikitravel''' — a [[wiki]] [[:Category:Travel guide|travel guide]], currently owned by {{tag|Internet Brands|Internet Brands, Inc.}}, is an [[:Category:Advertising|ad]]-supported ([[:Category:GoogleAds|GoogleAds]]) free, [[:Category:Earth|world]]-wide {{tag|travel}} guide.  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).

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 English Wikitravel main page]

In April 2006, Wikitravel and [[World66]], both [[:Category:open content|open content]] wiki travel guides, were acquired by Internet Brands, Inc., an [[:Category:United States|American]] commercial 'for profit' company that operates a number of consumer information websites. [http://investors.internetbrands.com/releases.cfm?Year=2006] {{deadEL}} [http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=27587 ''broken link as of 2010-07-09?''] {{deadEL}}

*[[Wikivoyage]] – a fork done by some German Wikitravellers, which aims to be a non-commercial alternative with transparent and democratic internal structures, along with their plans to [http://www.wikivoyage.org/general/Migration_FAQ migrate] to the [[:Category:Wikimedia Foundation|Wikimedia Foundation]]