True, Tripadvisor, Frommer’s, and Lonely Planet are some of the best online travel communities out there, but they’re far from the only big ones. So go ahead, broaden the horizons of your travel community and check out our 7 Best Off The Radar travel communities:
1. Travelistic
From YouTube to Hulu to Yahoo, there was a group obsessed with videos. Travelistic has taken this seriously and created a fully video-centric travel community.
Log in and you will find 10,000+ user-submitted travel videos to view, comment on, and inspire your future travels. Do you want to visit the Great Wall? Travel to the top of Everest? You can do it all at Travelistic, without having to leave home.
2. Igougo
An all-in-one master travel community, where you can plan your trip, compare flights and hotels, and share your travel experiences with the world.
Simply enter a destination and you will be instantly connected to a host of photos, reviews, and users who have traveled or reside there. When you’re ready to go, create your own travel journal and give back to the community by sharing your own travel experiences.
3. Trip It
Trip It, less a travel community and more a travel service, is perfect for the organization that we all carry within. Simply enter your flights, hotel stays and destinations and let trip it create an optimized travel itinerary for you in seconds. Never miss another plane or train.
For those who really want it all, upgrade to the pro version and Trip It will automatically notify you if there are any changes or delays in your travel plans. That means less time at the airport and more time at the beach.
4. Dopplr
Create a map with the dates and location of your trips; Share it with the Dopplr community, review others’ maps, and then meet with those whose travel plans match yours. If you want to keep your location a secret from someone (mom, dad, an angry x), don’t worry, you can control who can and who can’t see where you are.
Along the way, you’ll get a wealth of location-specific travel information, so you always know where to stay, where to eat, and what to do. Without thinking about traveling, we like that.
5. Travbuddy
Travbuddy has all the ingredients that make the online travel community amazing; Helpful forums, honest reviews, awesome travel photos, and a dedicated membership of 1.5 million people.
Travbuddy ups the ante by offering you your own travel blog, allowing you to easily post your stories, pictures, and reviews on the go. There’s even a built-in mapping feature that creates a map of your travels as you venture across the land.
Wherever you’re headed, this is a friend you won’t want to leave behind.
6. Travelers point
In addition to being a great place to plan, book and share your next trip, Travelers Point has undoubtedly one of the best travel resources on the web; wiki travel guides.
These 100% user-created and edited travel guides bring the collective wisdom and travel experiences of more than 250,000 members, right at your fingertips. From country and city guides to travel health and safety information, you’ll find everything you need to stay up-to-date, before you travel.
7. DODO trip
Travel DODO takes travel reviews and puts them in a fun, easy-to-digest format, dos and don’ts.
Want to know which restaurants, hotels, and attractions are best to avoid in France? Just click on the location on the interactive map, and you will be given a list of places to cross off your list (not travel), so you can spend your precious vacation time more intelligently.
Frankly, it would be a DODO, not to check here before you, GOGO.
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