Social Networking Site Exclusively for Travellers is Launched

Oct. 15, 2008 - PRLog -- A unique social networking site created by travellers for travellers has launched, geared at helping independent travellers plan trips, research destinations, get travel inspiration and give back to the travel community. GeckoGo’s (www.geckogo.com) content spans the world, and has been developed with community participation in mind.  

Not just another travel website with maps, hotel reviews and a flight cost estimator, GeckoGo is a portal to fill in all the gaps in between, with a free, fast and insightful peer-to-peer distribution of knowledge – straddling the online world of travel planning with social networking.

From the best empanadas in Ecuador to the most exciting hikes in Nepal, the GeckoGo platform allows travellers to share travel tips with each other – as well as create their own travel profile showing where they’ve been, what they’ve done and scoring travel ‘points’ along the way.

GeckoGo is available on the web at www.geckogo.com as well as through Travel Brain www.travelbrain.org – a rapidly growing travel application on Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Friendster and Hi5.  

Primarily self funded by a group of friends frustrated by their ability to research their trips and hear directly from those in the know online, GeckoGo was built based on their experiences travelling and those of the travellers they met along the way.

Available online since July 2008, GeckoGo has become the fastest growing source of unique user-generated travel related content on the web.  

In celebration of their official launch, GeckoGo has teamed up with Intrepid Travel to offer the ‘Search for the Ultimate Intrepid Traveller’. Throughout October, anyone can enter to win a mystery trip worth at least $5000 USD to be part of Intrepid’s R&D team scouting out new and adventurous destinations.  

Entrants need to create a GeckoGo account with their full travel history and top travel tips. The finalists will be chosen by a panel of judges including Jamling Norgay, son of the first Sherpa to summit Mount Everest (and noted mountaineer in his own right), and Chris Doyle, Vice President of the Adventure Travel Trade Association.  
Find out more at www.geckogo.com/contest

To join GeckoGo’s online travel community visit www.geckogo.com

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For more information, please contact Jo Little jolittle.mail@googlemail.com, 0788 532 6480.

Notes to Editor
GeckoGo was founded in 2007 by Aaron Chow, Eric MacKinnon, Indra Heckenbach and Pokin Yeung.  It is a travel planning and inspiration source for independent travellers, and host to the fastest growing source of unique travel content on the Internet.  GeckoGo is based in Mountain View, California and Vancouver, British Columbia.  

www.geckogo.com