Humble Beginnings for a web travel guide
Destination:
ThaiInfo
Welcome to Amazing Thailand
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This unique website was envisioned over 8 years ago by Richard Doring, a German travel writer who had researched and written over 20 Thailand travel guide books since 1987 for a handful of publishers worldwide.
His first ideas went online in September 2006 in the German website www.webtravelthailand.net titled "Our Vision".
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For several years the keywords
Travel Guide Book Chumphon
showed Richard Doring's demo website in second position behind wikitravel, but ahead of so well known international brands like virtualtourist, lonelyplanet, tripadvisor, travelfish, letsgo and expedia. Superior content is among the main criteria to bring a website to the top in search engines.
In order to produce excellent content for an online travel guide book a dedicated team of researchers is an absolute necessity for a huge touristic country as Thailand.
Richard Doring was very fortunate to find over 20 passionate friends to make up a creative team of Thais and foreigners whose common aim is to generate this Thailand travel website: www.t-globe.com
We ask all our friends to support our online guide book and to become a member of the t-globe-community.
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In June 2010 Version 3, the first fully functional web-generated guidebook, was presented to the public and is still accessible:
www.freestyle-travel.com
It resulted in the first postcard-size Thailand Guide Book ever printed on a personal printer at home. It is so cute and yet usable, that we decided to produce an additional pocketguide series of guidebooks for Thailand with its own website. |  |
In October 2010 google.maps published the new version of their very popular map system and Max started immediately to produce version 4 of t-globe.com incorporating the extensive GPS features of google maps.
As our more than 100,000 photos were already taken with GPS cameras, it was a logical step to make the entire information in t-globe.com driven by GPS data.
This bold step forward will allow us to produce any kind of websites in the time to come. |  |
