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Wikitravel was started in July 2003 by Evan Prodromou and Michele Ann Jenkins, partly inspired by Wikipedia. To allow individuals, tourism agencies, and others to make free reprints of individual pages more easily than permitted by the GNU Free Documentation License (used by Wikipedia at that time) it used the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike license. Since Wikipedia and Wikitravel are ...
Homestays. Travel is the movement of people between distant geographical locations. Travel can be done by foot, bicycle, automobile, train, boat, bus, airplane, ship or other means, with or without luggage, and can be one way or round trip. [1] Travel can also include relatively short stays between successive movements, as in the case of tourism .
The Douglas fir ( Pseudotsuga menziesii) is an evergreen conifer species in the pine family, Pinaceae, which is native to western North America. The trees grow to a height of around 20 to 100 metres (70 to 330 feet) and commonly reach 2.4 metres (8 feet) in diameter. The largest coast Douglas firs regularly live for more than 500 years, with the oldest specimens more than 1,300 years old. The ...
A guide book or travel guide is "a book of information about a place, designed for the use of visitors or tourists". [44] An early example is Thomas West 's guide to the English Lake District, published in 1778. [45] Thomas West, an English priest, popularized the idea of walking for pleasure in his guide to the Lake District of 1778.
François de La Boullaye-Le Gouz (1623–1668) Les voyages et observations du sieur de La Boullaye Le gouz (1653 & 1657) – one of the first true travel books. Edward Terry (1590–1660) A Voyage to East-India (1655) Pietro Della Valle, (1586–1652), Italian who traveled throughout Asia during the Renaissance period.
In 2012, after a long history of problems with their existing host, [3] the English-language version community of Wikitravel also decided as a community to fork their project. In a two-way move, the English Wikitravel community re-merged with Wikivoyage under the Wikivoyage brand. In addition, all Wikivoyage language versions moved their operations to be hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a ...
Cancún ( Spanish pronunciation: [kaŋˈkun] pronunciation ⓘ ), often rendered Cancun in English (without the accent; / kænˈkuːn / or / kɑːn -/ ), [4] is a city in southeast Mexico on the northeast coast of the Yucatán Peninsula in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. It is a significant tourist destination in Mexico [5] and the seat of the municipality of Benito Juárez. The city is on ...
A guide book or travel guide is "a book of information about a place designed for the use of visitors or tourists". [1] It will usually include information about sights, accommodation, restaurants, transportation, and activities. Maps of varying detail and historical and cultural information are often included. Different kinds of guide books exist, focusing on different aspects of travel, from ...