Vagabondo :: considerazioni

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Considerations

OUR MAIN IDEA

Every trip might offer a lot of opportunities that often we are not able to exploit only because we don't get to know them: how many things we don't do only because we don't know we might do them?
Anyone who tried to employ the Internet to organise his travel by himself has surely lost hours navigating among lots of advertisement of restaurants and hotels, tour operators and travel agencies, and so on, before he could find a pair of interesting sites.
And yet the Internet may be an extraordinary tool for travellers: thousands of people sharing these interests navigate the web every day and know that by meeting they could realise projects impossible to manage if alone!
Vagabondo is borne with the aim of collecting together, and so making them available, all these resources, and to connect people, also coming from different cultures, sharing the same passion for travel.
But this is not our only purpose: we are convinced that tourism should enhance typical local characteristics, cultural as historical as natural, against the "global standard" of touristic villages and great hotel chains, which are the same all over the world and tend to destroy these very local characters.
Our Main Idea is then a web connecting the whole world, but to enhance the infinite variety of places, nature and culture.

OUR INTERNET PHILOSOPHY

We think the strength of Vagabondo consists in its contents and in the dialogue between who wrights the site and its visitors; a dialogue free from any commercial bond. But a site must also be nice to see, so we amused ourselves in inventing the graphics that will accompany you in these page.
Since January 2005 Vagabondo uses the mighty Xaraya engine for dynamic managing of contents. Our choice to employ a CMS (Content Management System) was by now essential, because of the mass of materials to negotiate, but we absolutely didn't want Vagabondo to take the typical huge portal look of all CMS: this involved an immense and difficult travel to personalise the architecture of the system, but today we can be really proud of it!

CREDITS

We thank all our visitors that made this site become the most important Italian Portal about independent travel. And specially thank all that people that with their ideas and their work directly contributed, and among these to Federico, who studied Vagabondo for his degree thesis and flooded us with interesting ideas.
A thank also to all the friends who directly and undirectly helped us to realise this site.
Last but not least, thanks to all people that reviwed aour site in the press, television and radio.