Author: Sam Zivot
Source: ezinearticles.com

True, Tripadvisor, Frommer’s and the Lonely Planet are some of the best online travel communities going, but they’re far from the only ones amongst the greats. So go on, expand your travel community horizons and check out our 7 Best Off The Radar Travel Communities:

1. Travelistic

From YouTube to Hulu to Yahoo, were a video obsessed bunch. Travelistic has cleverly taken this to head and created a travel community wholly centred around video.

Log on and you’ll find over 10,000 user submitted travel videos, to view, comment on and inspire your future travels. Want to visit the Great Wall? Journey to the top of Everest? You can do it all on Travelistic, without ever leaving home.

2. Igougo

A masterful all in one travel community, where you can plan your trip, compare flights and hotels and share your travel experiences with the world.

Just type in a destination and you’ll be instantly connected to a plethora of photos, reviews and users who have traveled or reside there. When you’re ready to go, create your very own trip journal and give back to the community by sharing your own travel experiences.

3. Trip It

Less of a travel community and more a travel service, Trip It is perfect for the organization nut in all of us. Just 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 again.

For those who truly want it all, upgrade to the pro version and Trip It will automatically alert you if there are 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 travels; share it with the Dopplr community, check out other’s maps, then meet up with those whose travel plans overlap with your own. If you’d like to keep your location a secret from some (mom, dad, a raging x), don’t worry, you can control who can and can’t see where you are.

Along the way you’ll get a wealth of location specific travel information, so you’ll always know where to stay, where to eat, and what to do. Taking the thinking out of traveling, we like that.

5. Travbuddy

Travbuddy’s got all the ingredients that make for a killer online travel community; helpful forums, honest reviews, stunning travel photos and a dedicated membership 1.5 million strong.

Travbuddy ups the ante by giving you your very trip blog, allowing you to easily post your stories, pictures and reviews as you go. There’s even a built in mapping feature that builds a map of your travels as you venture across the earth.

Wherever, you’re headed, this is one buddy you don’t want to leave behind.

6.Travellers Point

Besides being a great place to plan, book and share your next trip, Travellers Point has hands down one of the best travel resources on the web; wiki travel guides.

These 100% user created and edited travel guides, give you the collective wisdom and travel experiences of over 250,000 members, right at your finger tips. From country and city guides, to travel health and safety information, you’ll find everything you need to get in the know, before you go.

7. Travel DODO

Travel DODO takes travel reviews and puts them into a fun, easily digestible format, Travel Do’s, and Travel Don’ts.

Want to find out which restaurants, hotels and attractions are best avoided in France? Just click on the location on the interactive map, and you’ll be given a list of places to cross off your list (travel don’ts), so you spend your valuable vacation time wiser.

Frankly, you’d be a DODO, not to check up here before you GOGO.

-Sam

Sam Zivot is a blogger and Marketing Manager for Jurnii Car Rentals, America’s new travel focused online rental car company. He writes frequently for the Jurnii USA Car Rentals, Blog and enjoys travel both in the U.S and abroad.

Author: Jerry Newman
Source: ezinearticles.com

There really are so many advantages to promoting travel through your affiliate network marketing business. Not only can you generate cash flow through travel promotion but the perks are second to none. They can even include luxury style travel for free. That has got to be one of the most sought after perks of any job.

Travel promotion is custom made for internet marketing. People love the instantaneous and completely up to date nature of planning and purchasing travel online. Network marketers have realized this and are cashing in. In fact home based travel agencies are on of the hottest opportunities.

If you are thinking of affiliate network marketing business then you need to be aware of a few things if you are going to generate the sort of cash you can live on. First thing you should know is that there are two types of home based travel agencies. The first sort is more of a facilitator. This means that you set up a business to attract customers and you then pass them on to a travel agency. The agency pays you a commission for the leads you have generated for them. Your involvement in the deal ends then and the agency deals with all the details of planning and booking the trip.

The other niche that the affiliate network marketers have found in travel takes much more effort.You set yourself up as a fully fledged travel consultant and both find the customers and completely plan and book their trips.The cash generated for the service is then completely yours.

It is easy to see the pros and cons of each of these approaches to network marketing travel. In the first instance you do a lot less work but as you would expect the financial rewards are not as substantial. The second approach takes more work but the cash generated is likely to be more lucrative. To decide which of these network marketing models is for you,you will need to think about what kind of time you want to spend. The first approach could easily lead to the second as you become more committed. Both ways will earn you money and likely many rewards.

Affiliate network marketing of travel is a growing trade and this is an excellent time to get involved if you are interested in making some cash. The fact that you could also end up travelling to many places yourself is an extra bonus. If you are doing a decent trade with your home based travel business then resorts and cruise companies will be keen to have you promote their product. Often they will ask you to sample it so that they can convince you of its superior standard.

This will not happen straight away but if you can be patient and grow your marketing business to its full potential then you will experience this kind of perks. The travel industry is a 8 trillion dollar industry going to 15 trillion dollars in the next ten years. In fact, just as you are making more than enough money to pay for your own travel, companies are likely to start offering it to you for free,because the fact that you are making money means you now have the volume of clients that interests the

Network Marketing of Travel is set to boom over the next ten years so getting involved right now is a smart move. Network marketing is having a lot of success now and it will continue for the next ten plus. So get on board.

Jerry has retired from corporate business after 20 years in engineering,purchasing,sales, and management. After corporate life he owned a manufactures representatives company. Now retired from that continued learning and dream travel are the interests. Join me on dream travel trips at http://www.twitter.com/JerryNewman