News and updates from the Travellr team!
Over the past month, we've been working with WorldNomads.com to bring our Travel Q&A service to their customers and community.
So what does this mean?
We're growing the Travellr network across a network of like-minded partners, so that you can tap into a collective community of thousands of travellers world-wide to get the best answers to your travel questions.
If you are interested in partnering with us, then please get in touch.
We're excited to announce that we've launched badges! Badges recognise people who participate and are helpful in our Q&A community - such as answering questions, rating answers, and asking new questions.
Over the coming weeks we'll be adding new awards based around topics and destinations to recognise local expertise in the community. Head over to the badges page for a list of the awards you can receive and who's been awarded them.
Once again, we'd like to thank you - our knowledgable travel community for the continued feedback, suggestions and comments. Keep them coming!
For the past six months the Travellr team have been squirrelling away at our home inside World Nomads building a super stealth new version of our Travel Q&A service. Today, we're very excited to announce that we've officially launched!
In 2008, we set out to solve a simple problem - how to get fast, relevant advice to your travel questions from locals or past visitors. Two years on, and we've answered thousands of travel questions across hundreds of destinations world-wide - from mega-cities such as Paris and Tokyo, to beautiful far-away countries such as Laos and New Zealand. And all thanks to our ever-growing community of explorers, vagabonds, wanderlusters and seasoned locals who share a collective wealth of experience and expert knowledge around the globe.
So what's our goal? Simple. We want to help you find the best answers to your travel questions. Whether you want to find out about backpacking in Istanbul, how to travel overland from Kunming to Hanoi, or boutique hotels in London, our global community of experienced locals have the answer!
We've put a lot of hard work and love into our new release, so here's the lowdown on what's new:
Got any comments about our new release? Good or bad, we'd love to know what you think!
Cheers!
- The Travellr team (brought to you by Jai, Michael, Chris, Karla and Ian)
The very limited edition Travellr t-shirts from our launch last year are still making appearances around the world! The most recent sighting was from the streets of New York City, featuring Niko our intrepid Aussie expat from Portugal.
This week the folks over at Travel and Leisure.com listed Travellr.com in their "Best Travel-Advisory Websites" list. We're thrilled and thought we'd share the news!
Mark Orwall writes: "Have a question about security (or almost any other topic) in your destination? Just ask Travellr, where your query is answered by an international community of globe-trotters who volunteer their expertise."
From the list we also liked worldtravelwatch.com, which is a compilation of news reports from two adventure-travel journalists. They website provide in-depth travel warnings and news about specific area.
Safe travels!
If any travel websites would like to be included in the project then please get in touch with us – we’d love to include more content!
We love hearing other people's experiences using Travellr.com. The Irish Times gave us a mention in a list of useful travel research tools -
explore.travellr is a web mashup created by university students from the School of CIS in Tasmania. It allows users to search and explore travel-related content from Travellr, World Nomads Adventures, Flickr and Twitter.
The purpose of the project is to explore different ways to find and display travel and destination information from the web. For example, searching for "Skiing in Japan" on explore.travellr will bring up questions from Travellr, Flickr photos, Tweets, and recent journal entries from World Nomads.
The technical nitty gritty - the project was developed using the Mootools Javascript Framework, and utilises JSONP-based APIs that allow the browser to consume external data sources. RSS feeds (such as World Nomads Journals) are brought in using Yahoo Pipes. The entire application runs in Javascript, which is pretty cool, huh?!
The project is a work in progress (and it does have bugs) but we thought we'd share it with the travel community for open discussion and to share ideas on ways to enhance the experience of trip planning on the web.
So head over to explore.travellr to take a look, and if you have any feedback or would like to suggest a data source then let us know!
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