Travellerspoint

Travellerspoint is an online travel community. It was started by a couple of travelers who had traveled, met people, lost contact with many people and who wanted a site where you could track down old friends. Over time, the Travellerspoint website became a Travel Community with several services designed to assist travelers at all stages of their trip. Travellerspoint is all about the experiences, memories, emotions and feelings which are created whilst traveling.

Travellerspoint is now a social networking site with more than 80,000 members. It also has services such as blogs and travel maps. For travelers who are planning a trip, there are thousands of voluntary travel helpers who offer tips for being safe. Users can also book budget accommodation through partner programs. The travel maps on the website integrate photography and blogging features through geocoding. Geocoding is the process of adding geographical identification to websites, and enables user's photos and blog entries to be automatically inserted into their travel map.

Since Travellerspoint offers its services free of charge, its revenues come from advertising and partner programs like Google Adsense. The website sells travel-related products through its affiliate partners. Every advertiser on the site has a limit to the number of pages they can display. The owners of the site believe that this acts as a type of quality control, so users continue coming back to the site.