www.writingtravellers.com

WritingTravellers brings people together to write guidebooks that will be published on-line and in print. The printed guidebooks will be more up-to-date and more tailor-made than regular guidebooks. Anyone can contribute texts or pictures and will get credits for it. The first guides that will be ready for print are Amsterdam and Delhi.

WritingTravellers is a non profit foundation based in Amsterdam. It offers free, on-line access to travel guide information and stimulates travellers to improve this information all the time. The foundation works together with a company that prints up-to-date personalized guidebooks from the database, each time someone orders a guidebook. Part of the income that is generated this way flows back into the WritingTravellers foundation, so it can go on providing free on-line travel guide information.

WritingTravellers was founded by Ferdinand Harmsen and Bart van Slobbe in 2006 and operates from Amsterdam and New Delhi. Since February 2007 our team is extended with chief moderator, Manja Koomen and since February 2008 Loes van Petersenjoined in as marketing consultant.

All information on the website is available under a Creative Commons license. Printing orders for guidebooks will be accepted as soon as there will be enough information available for certain destinations. You already can build a unique guidebook in PDF according to your personal wishes. If you want to get an idea of how this works, log on to the site and click on the guidebook on the right side of the screen. This will start a beta of the "Build your own guidebook" function. In the printed guidebooks the contributors will be mentioned explicitly next to the items they wrote.