Official Cosmotourist Blog

There has been a lot going on at Cosmotourist during the last few weeks and we would like to draw your attention to a few of the highlights!

In April we ran an “Invite your Friends” competition, in which many of you took part.  We were very happy to announce the winner JennyPenny, who won 400 USD for inviting the most friends to Cosmotourist in April. We also promised to give away 400 USD to a brand-new user that signed up during the duration of competition. The winner was selected at random and this turned out to be Foszila. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all who participated in the competition.

We would also like to draw your attention to changes in the layout of our site. Many hours of hard work went into the new layout of our country pages.  When you now go to the page of any country, you can see the most popular regions, cities, attractions and photos at a glance. You can also subscribe to a mailing list to receive new travel tips posted about a specific country. 

User feedback is vital in the success of the Cosmotourist community.  As a result a feedback questionnaire will be sent to all Cosmotourists in the next few weeks.  We hope that many will participate.

Your Cosmotourist Team

Travel tips of specific interest can now be found on the Cosmotourist homepage. Here you will find a ranking list entitled Top Travel Tips showing the 3 most popular travel tips per month. The tips that appear here have received the most positive feedback by members of the community.  By clicking on MORE you will be directed to a full page of travel tips that have been rated positively by users in the corresponding month.

This new feature was launched with a competition in February. Nina 5 was the proud winner, taking away 300$! Her travel tip TABLA INDIAN RESTAURANT gained much acclaim. Her travel tip was rated by 136 people in February, who have no doubt now been inspired to to visit the restaurant themselves!

Our congratulations go to Nina and to all Cosmotourists who participated in the competition. For those who didn’t win there is no need for disappointment as there will be plenty of other competitions coming up in the near future-so stay tuned!

During Advent and the period leading up to Ephiphany we ran a competition looking for the top 3 Cosmotourist Scouts with the most subscribers to their postings. We now have our 3 King of Scouts who we would like to congratulate in celebratory fashion:

400$ go to Elizaoprisor (with 28 subscribers to her scout topic “Eastern Europe-the  good and the bad”)

250$ go to Jamaica Jane (with 33 subscribers to her scout topic”Jamaica in a Nutshell”)

80$ go to NOFXMike (with 23 subscribers to his scout topic “Exploring Germany from  a tour guide’s perspective”)

Our Scouts are an important part of the Cosmotourist concept. They make it possible for members to network with one another, sharing common interests, helpful tips and advice with one another. We are therefore thrilled with the more Scouts we get!

Many  people noticed that the ranking table changed just before the competition deadline. Unfortunately we discoverered that there were numerous fake registrations. We therefore had to sift out all false subscribers and this led to the ranking table changing to reflect only authentic sign ups.  

The Cosmotourist Team congratulates the winners and thanks all its Scouts for their interesting and exciting postings!

Over the last few weeks we have been running a Cosmostory competition and we are now happy to be able to announce the winners:
Kristen 5683 and AmberT!

They have both won airline vouchures which with any luck will inspire lots more Cosmostories! AmberT plans to put her prize towards a trip to Miami and Kristen5683 is considering a trip to Amsterdam! We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your fun, lively, personal and informative travel stories. Your Cosmostories are entertaining and provide interesting food for thought. A few examples are “Buenos Aires to lima, Peru…by Bus” by Soulchaser “My Blue Mountain Escape” by JamaicaJane, “My Puerto Galera Island Experience” by Orange Travel and “Costa Rica in the Rain” by Tamarin. Keep up the good work!

If you would like to see the entire catalogue of Cosmostories, simply go the homepage, then to the “Latest Cosmostories” and click on “more” at the bottom.

Have fun reading and adding more Cosmostories!

Your Cosmotourist Team