WikiTravel

After doing a little bit of research on WikiTravel, I must say that the concept is one of those "I wish I came up with that first," type of things. It makes perfect sense. For years, it's been entirely possible to find out about any travel destination in the world and plan an entire trip from start to finish using only the Internet, but it's never been as easy as it could be. To me, WikiTravel will serve to combine all of the separate anecdotal information about places in the world and present them simply and easily in one spot.

I also like the element of neutrality that WikiTravel is using, like Wikipedia. As is written on the goals and non-goals page, the purpose is to get accurate and relevant information about a given place, not opinions and promotion. This will solve perhaps the biggest problem that exists when trying to research travel destinations online. If you go to any one person's website and read their information about a place, then it will obviously be clouded by their biases, whatever they may be. WikiTravel will be a collaboration of many travelers' opinions, so these biases will be smoothed out to a large extent.