Traveling Social Networks: Traveling 2.0
Social media started the whole new era in online traveling. Apart from user generated reviews and ratings, easy-to-find discounts and deals, trip planning, travel social media networks offer huge opportunities to get connected to people with similar interests, plan your tour and meetings via online communication, find plenty of information on the places you are planning to visit.
Wayn.com
Hot options:
- See your traveller’s score: “You have visited 1% of the countries in the world”;
- Point sytem: earn points for adding info to your profile, adding trips,
photos, etc; - Create a trip:
- find all possible information on it: weather, place reviews, hotels,
restaurants, event, etc - find people who are/have been/plan to go to your preferred place and
ask her questions;
- find all possible information on it: weather, place reviews, hotels,
- Use desktop tool for fast photo upload, etc
Where they screwed:
- non-confirmed subscriptions: scam members, hard to reach members, etc
- multiple email notifications, no clear option to unsubscribe.
Travel social networking with similar features: Yowtrip.com, Travbuddy.com.
TripTie.com:
- maintain traveling calendar;
- post your own blogs;
- view others’ trip plans:
- total cost, hotel, sightseeings,
- copy others’ plans;
- bookmark/review, etc
Geojoey.com: blog on a map – tick places on the map and post reviews, create your routs.
Travelistic.com: UG travel video collection (YOUTube style: ratings, tags, comments, related videos).
Image credit: The Road Less Traveled
Finally I found this one, about of traveling social network because I need some people who want to join my company and work with me, and their work is just to travel all the world using the networking.