Tripoto - For Traveler Tales and More. Review on Tripoto

Tripoto is a travel website made for and by people like us who travel. It is also a kind of travel search engine with user-generated content. Launched in 2013 by Anirudh Gupta and Michael Pargal Lyngdoh, it offers a space for users to enter their travel stories and read those of others.

I joined it in 2015 and then forgot all about it.

For one thing, all these travel websites cater to the very rich and you have to struggle to find something to fit your humble budget.

Then, sometime this year, I submitted my travel blog to them. It helped increase traffic to my wordpress blog a bit.

I’m not sure how the blog submitting works but I would now construct on their platform directly and perhaps use my old blog for some other topic. This is because Tripoto offers a whole menu for constructing a trip story.

But first let’s look at the layout:

*Discover** Videos, photo blogs, hotel collections, The Stash(best posts?), Travel Guides, and India/Asia/Africa/Europe/America/Australia Itineraries.

Then comes **Publish A Trip** which is what I basically like doing there. And so I shall return to that in greater detail soon.

This is followed by **Plan A Trip** where *tripoto.a.i, Your Virtual Travel Buddy* pops up and says

"You can ask me about hotels, destinations, attractions, itineraries, how to reach, best time to visit, getaways, restaurants, culture, festivals, activities, weather, time, distance and a lot more actually”.

*Publish A Trip** Here you can input your travel story and itinerary in four steps and share it on the Tripoto network and on FB, Twitter, etc. The steps are optional.

*Step 1:** Give your trip a title, enter duration of trip(Starts From and Till) and Upload pictures.

*Step 2**: Classify your trip: Nature, Backpacking, Culture, City, or Adventure.

*Tag friends on trip** Your FB friends, that is.

*Total trip expenditure** in USD, EUR or INR spent on Transport, Food, Tours, Stay or Events.

*Step 3**: Share your itinerary - enter the names of the place/hotel, restaurant, etc.

*Step 4:** This is where you compose your blog entry with an interface similar to most blog hosting site.

And, lastly, add hashtags, preview, publish and keep it private or make it public.

While I do love it because I can contribute, I find it rather like Pinterest. A page goes on and on and on.

So much profusion of information can be mind boggling.

But that may just be an indication of completeness.

So it’s upto you to visit Tripoto and find out if the journey is worth your while. And next time you travel, take a whole lot of pics, less selfies and more places of interest, jot notes and enter your very own Travel Story!

Why not use the app so that you can do that en route rather than wait till you get home to type it out on your PC?