Postcard contest! Win a weekend in Cádiz!
In our age of communication everyone is using email, text messages or instant messaging to spread written words.
We want to remind people that postcards still exist and that they have their benefits.
Send us your most original and fun postcard between November 15th and January 10th and we will award the best one.
Win a weekend in a charming hotel in Vejer de la Frontera (Cadiz)!
Interested?
1. You must be an iwannagothere user to enter the competition. If you haven’t already sign up!
2. Include your account Nickname on the postcard.
3. Write two lines about your city, a local greeting or something funny.
Good luck!!!
Tally-O + iwannagothere.com: hundreds of travel guides can now be enjoyed on the iPhone
Tally-O, an iPhone app that lets friends create and share their own travel guides, has partnered with iwannagothere.com so that the hundreds of travel guides from the site can now be enjoyed on the iPhone.
Infinitely more credible than traditional guidebooks, these social travel tools both allow friends and fellow travelers to share guides and personal recommendations. While the big tour guides cater to the general tourist audience, Tally-O and iwannagothere.com are perfect for travelers seeking unique destinations and experiences they can share with friends.
With this partnership, existing users of Tally-O can enjoy exploring the hundreds of guides created by the iwannagothere users. Existing users of iwannagothere.com can download Tally-O ($1.99 in the App Store) and view all the Tally-O and iwannagothere.com adventures on their iPhone or iPod Touch. The app uses the built-in GPS on the device to find nearby destinations.
María Martínez, founder & CEO of iwannagothere.com, says “Tally-O allows travelers to find the best tips & guides wherever they are, whenever they want. We believe in open knowledge, using our API Tally-O can offer our guides & tips. iwannagothere.com content + Tally-O app are the perfect combination for your trips.”
Ed Holzwarth, President of Little Green Software, creators of Tally-O, says, “iwannagothere.com is the perfect partner for Tally-O. Both are social travel tools that let real people share personalized travel guides. Now all of our users get the best of the both worlds.”
iwannagothere.com
this is travel, not tourism
Tally-O
Play in Your World
on the App Store: http://j.mp/tally-o
on the web: http://www.tally-o.com/
Our API is open to be used by everyone. You can find all the information about the iwannagothere.com API here: http://iwannagothere.com/api/index
Travel BlogCamp
The Travel BlogCamp is an informal networking event held in London during the World Travel Market. iwannagothere sponsored the event.
The event started with a networking cocktail, followed by a Q&A session with Chris Clarkson (Sunshine.co.uk), Hugo Burge (Cheapflights), Zoey Chant (Essential Travel) & Alberto Knapp (I Wanna Go There).
We spoke about twitter, quality vs. quantity of followers, paid content and how to engage users in your site.
All the conversations where really interesting and Kevin May , from tnooz, did a great job moderating it.
There were special talks from Murray Harrold (Advantage Travel), Joel Brandon-Bravo (Frommer’s) and Guillaume Thevenot (Hotel Blogs). The talk by Eva Keogan (Lastminute.com) was followed by a lively debate about the industry’s concerns with social media.
It was great to meet so many people (some of them we follow from a long time ago) like Karen Bryan (Europe A La Carte), Janice Waugh (Solo Traveler), Dot Pinkney (Tripbod), Antonio Bonanno (Tripshake), Daniele Beccari (Eurostarclient.com), Nadine Hallak (Cheapflights) and lots more .
It was a pity we couldn’t meet others like Andy Jarosz (501 Places), Jared Salter (Joobili) and Andy Hayes (Travel Online Partners). Maybe next year! 
Thanks to Darren for organising such a great event!
New feature: view this guide on google maps!
Hi everyone!
Now you can view all the guides at iwannagothere.com on google maps
See the quickest route y to go from one location to the next for your saved places. All integrated in your guide page
Here are some examples:
- Hong Kong: http://iwannagothere.com/users/limalimon/routes/hong-kong
- Local markets around the world: http://iwannagothere.com/users/dyii/routes/local-markets-around-the-world
- Festivals in India: http://iwannagothere.com/users/susanna-alaitz/routes/festivals-in-india
Guides are a wonderful tool to plan your upcoming trips but also to keep your trip memories when you come back home.
You can save the guides you like, send a guide to a friend by email or print it! Iwannagothere guides travel with you!
The view on google maps gives you a new way to interact with the guides.
So, how do you like it? Tell us your thoughts
Halloween Contest
Special…..Scary!………Join the big iwannagothere Halloween sweepstakes and win!!!
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Not sure what to answer? Check them out!
- Jack the ripper walk in London: http://tinyurl.com/yj8lzyw
- Paris catacombes in Paris: http://tinyurl.com/yjcs4oc
- Criminal museum in Vienna: http://tinyurl.com/yfsu54h
- Villa dracula in Munich: http://tinyurl.com/yzf7sxv
Drop us a line! For each comment we will send you an iwannagothere treat 
80 days around the world
Be like Phileas Fogg and try to circle the world in 80 days by car, plane, train, boat, bird, balloon or just on foot.
You only need a few bucks, a sense of adventure to discover the world and this travel guide – your journey can start today!
Each day we will post a new destination.
On Monday we will start in the streets of Grünerløkka and Grønland in Oslo, Norway.
Follow our travels!
iwannagothere will be sponsoring the Travel BlogCamp
The Travel BlogCamp is an informal networking event held in London during the World Travel Market.
Last year over 80 people took part from around the travel industry, including travel bloggers and journalists, to discuss travel blogs and social media.
Speakers for Travel BlogCamp 2009 are Murray Harrold (Advantage Travel), Joel Brandon-Bravo (Frommer’s), Guillaume Thevenot (Hotel Blogs), Eva Keogan (Lastminute.com), Darren Cronian (Travel Rants) and moderated by Kevin May (Tnooz)
Iwannagothere will be sponsoring the event
Hope to see you there!
The Weirdest Summer Contest 09 has a winner!
After a week voting for your favorite place we have a winner!
The winner place is Ice bar in London
A very strange place where everything is ice: walls, benches, glasses… and everybody dressed like Eskimos !
The temperature is about -5°C all year so if you need to refresh your mind and body, this is a really fun place to go during summer.
Congratulations Mathilde!
You can have a look to our 10 finalists votes!
Ready, steady, vote! Weirdest Summer Contest finalists!!
Hi everyone!
Our Weird Summer Contest has been a success! We’ve had nearly a 100 places submitted
All the places were great! Thank you so much to all of you
We have chosen 10 finalists among all the contestants.
You can vote for your favorite candidate here: http://iwannagothere.com/summer_contest_places
Voting will be closed by next Sunday at 23:59 (GMT+1)
Good luck to the finalists!!
