Back in the day. Roughly your grandfather’s day. When one person shared a tip with another. Be it the bar with the best music, the hostel with the best beds or the city with the best looking girls, they called it “word of mouth.” But that was 1947. Today they call it “micro-blogging” and a new website not only helps you do it, but just might pay you for the privilege.
The founders of backpackerforever.com have just launched version 2.0 which includes a “knowledge sharing portal” (Formally known as a hostel bulletin board) which allows actual travelers to rely on each other for knowledge and guidance.
Chances are someone has been where you’re going and you’ve been where someone else is headed. So why not share.
“Backpackers are the best travelers in the world. We travel in tiny budgets, rely on local transportation, meet dozens of locals and fellow travelers daily, and are not afraid to go off the beaten path, says Matt, one of the website’s founders. “The collective budget travel community has the largest and most reliable database of travel information in the world, and if we all worked together, we can build something great we can all rely on.”
And though there are lots of sites that will pay you a pittance for your travel tidbits, backpackforever.com is different in that it returns 100 percent of the site’s profits to its members.
“Backpackers who run out of money early have to go home early, and we thing that stinks,” says Tran, the website’s other founder. “It is our hope that a little bit of extra income will help backpackers stay on the road a bit longer.”
So if you know the best bar or the city with the best looking girls, please share. And it just might get you a few more days in Amsterdam.
To read the whole story on the website’s pay program, click here.
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