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VirtualTourist is a free, travel-oriented community website featuring user-contributed travel guides for locations worldwide. VirtualTourist (often written VT) is one of a number of travel websites on the Web, which include websites like TripAdvisor (VT's parent company) and Cruise Critic (a sister company to VT). VirtualTourist hosts content such as tips and reviews, online forums, sells advertising and provides travel booking or link to travel booking. Because VirtualTourist derives its revenue from advertising and selling ancillary services, the general public is able to register on the site as a 'member' and use a number of the website's services at no cost.
VirtualTourist uses social media techniques to provide not just content for travel issues, but to enable a sense of community through its active travel forums. VTers regularly get together for face-to-face social events all over the world. For example, in May 2010, more than 150 VTers from around the world met in Krakow, Poland, for VT's 6th annual Euromeet.
With over a million registered members, the website offers 1.7 million travel reviews and 3.6 million photos on over 72,977 destinations.