Wikivoyage

What Wikivoyage is

Wikivoyage is a free travel guide website at wikivoyage.org and a Wikimedia Foundation sister project. Its pages are written and edited collaboratively to help readers understand destinations, routes, travel topics, and practical travel considerations.

Destination guides

Destination pages usually organize information around getting in, getting around, seeing, doing, eating, drinking, sleeping, staying safe, and going next. That structure makes Wikivoyage useful for a first pass over a place before checking current local sources, official advisories, booking systems, and transit operators.

Itineraries and topics

Wikivoyage also includes itinerary pages and travel topics. Itineraries can describe a route or themed journey, while travel topics cover subjects such as transport styles, regional travel habits, accessibility, safety, phrasebooks, and practical background that does not belong to only one destination.

Collaborative editing

Like other wiki projects, Wikivoyage depends on contributors who add, revise, discuss, and maintain pages. Edits can improve outdated listings, clarify directions, add context, remove promotional language, or align an article with the project's travel-guide goals.

Open travel content

Wikivoyage is open content, which helps its travel information circulate beyond the website. That openness is useful for education, reuse, translation, offline reading, and community maintenance, but it also means readers should notice page history, references, and freshness when details matter.

How it differs from Wikipedia

The project is related to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites, but it has a different job. Wikipedia explains encyclopedic topics; Wikivoyage is meant to be a practical travel guide. A useful Wikivoyage page may give advice, route structure, and listings that would not fit a conventional encyclopedia article.

Strengths and limits

Wikivoyage is strongest as an orientation tool and collaborative guide, not as a final authority on changing travel conditions. Opening hours, prices, visas, safety risks, health requirements, local rules, and transport schedules can change quickly, so important plans should be checked against official and current sources.

Why it matters

Wikivoyage matters because travel information is often scattered across tourism boards, transit sites, business pages, personal blogs, maps, and guidebooks. A free, editable guide can give readers a shared starting point while letting travelers contribute local knowledge back into the commons.

WHOIS domain data

Data pulled: June 1, 2026 · View current WHOIS record

Domain

wikivoyage.org

IP address

208.80.154.224

Registrar

MarkMonitor Inc.

WHOIS server

whois.markmonitor.com

Referral URL

http://www.markmonitor.com

Created

November 17, 2006

Updated

December 10, 2025

Expires

November 17, 2026

Nameservers

ns0.wikimedia.org (208.80.154.238); ns1.wikimedia.org (208.80.153.231); ns2.wikimedia.org (198.35.27.27)

Domain status

clientDeleteProhibited; clientTransferProhibited; clientUpdateProhibited

Registrant organization

Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

Registrant location

US

Registrant contact email

Select Request Email Form at https://domains [dot] markmonitor [dot] com/whois/wikivoyage [dot] org

Technical contact email

Select Request Email Form at https://domains [dot] markmonitor [dot] com/whois/wikivoyage [dot] org