User Generated Guidebooks

Hi writing traveller!

You love travelling and discovering new places. You love to visit places where you meet people you wouldn't have met otherwise. Have experiences you wouldn't have otherwise had ... True? Then do read on...

Tiny problem...
When you are travelling a good travel guidebook is an important partner for you. How can you find local restaurants or that particularly cheap and clean B&B without one? The only problem with travel guidebooks available right now, is that most of the time we all end up with the same guidebooks. So that would be you and thousands of other people using the same book. As a result everybody visits the same places that become a lot less idyllic and don't resemble the guides' description.

Many times the information is pretty outdated. Restaurants are closed, or not as pleasant as the guide tells you, new places "to be" are not in it, telephone numbers and prices have changed. This thought must have slipped your mind - "With the knowledge I gained from my last trip, I could improve that guide tremendously."

Passion for sharing
WritingTravellers is an initiative for fans of travelling and writing. For people who like to share their passion and for those who are constantly looking for unique experiences all over the world. Most of all WritingTravellers is a website about travelling, put together from tips and experiences of a group of enthusiast travellers. It's a website that can be neatly compared with the encyclopaedia of Wikipedia.

Directly, or through Travellers for Travellers
WritingTravellers works together with www.TravelersforTravelers.com. This means that some items in the guidebooks are written by TravelersforTravelers users, this is visible because the usernames end with @tft. We believe that this cooperation leads to even better guidebooks, we would like as many people as possible to use the guides and improve them! Check out the website www.TravelersforTravelers.com if you are not yet familiar with it, there are many more options and services the website has to offer!

Unique printed guide
Writing in the WritingTravellers guidebooks is an on-line activity. As soon as we have enough information, users can order printed guides based on all the information available from the site. We put the guide together so that it will meet all your needs and requirements, then we print it all off. It will be up-to-date and it will only contain the information you really need. So there will no longer be any unnecessary load in your backpack. And the guides of WritingTravellers will be cheaper than most of the others, for example the Lonely Planet guidebooks.

We invite you
We invite you to become one of the first WritingTravellers, which means you can be an author of one of the best and most exclusive travel guides of the World. Let's rediscover the planet.

Guides that are already in the final stages of completion and ready to order as paperbacks are:

• The Netherlands
• India
• South Africa

and guides with a lot of information but still in need of some more input from different travellers are:

• Japan/Tokyo
• Italy
• Spain
• Iceland
• Greece

But you are more than welcome to add/edit information about any destination in the world.

What is in it for you?
FAME:
On-line we will show your name with every article you worked on! But most important in the actual guide we will print your name with every article you worked on!

FUN:
It is really fun, to create a guidebook, especially if the guide is about places that you've enjoyed yourself. It becomes more fun if you can work together with others that visited the same place and if you start uploading your travel pictures! Be careful it might be addictive!

FREE Guides:
We are still in a start-up phase of WritingTravellers, but the plans are ready to start-up a loyalty program. This means that you will get points for every edit that you make, eventually you can use these to order a free guide.

How does it work?
Visit the homepage , choose a find your destination and a subject and let's start re-discovering the planet! Or if you are an administrator on www.travelersfortravelers.com, click on guide to start editing.


Good luck and best regards,
The WritingTravellers Team

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