We have booked a holiday to Isola Volcano for June subsequent year but on studying Wiki Travel I’m now a bit concerned. Firstly they’ve mentioned that the entire island smells like rotten eggs and not suitable for someone with respiratory issues (my husband has asthma), then they go on to inform you there’s a problem with mosquitos and jelly fish!
Now Evan and Michele, being sensible cookies, had already made a point of retaining print rights to the Wikitravel model. However, Internet Brands still had a say on who may use those rights and how, so we needed to fly over from Singapore and Montreal to Los Angeles to satisfy IB, pitch the idea, draft agreements, get attorneys to look it throughout etc, all an unnecessary cost and distraction compared to if had it been just the three of us. The deal we got here to was truthful enough, and …
Jani Patokallio was first bitten by the travel bug on the age of eight months and hasn’t managed to shake it yet. Halfway via racking up 650,000 flight miles as a telecommuting marketing consultant, he jumped ship to become co-founder and managing editor of pioneering print-on-demand travel publisher Wikitravel Press , with OpenFlights as a side undertaking. Previously Publishing Platform Architect at Lonely Planet , Jani now works in Google’s Cloud group in Sydney.