Travel blogging is becoming popular with both those documenting their travels and those who want to sample foreign countries before they set off. Newcomer Trippert, based in Palo Alto, doesn’t want to be a totally open travel blog platform: instead, they’re focused on users offering expert travel guides, with more focus on timeless content than the passing observations of travel bloggers.
Tagging makes articles easier to find, and profile pages aggregate your articles in reverse chronological order: it’s essentially a blog. Users can also write articles together in a wiki format. For us geeks: RSS feeds of a writer’s posts.
Trippert is a nice effort, and should do fine from both search traffic and direct navigation. What it lacks right now is an incentive system - like revenue sharing - and the critical mass to make the community compelling. For a fuller review of the sites in this space, see our Travel Hacking article.
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