VirtualTourist is a free, travel-oriented community website featuring user-contributed travel guides for locations worldwide.

Because VirtualTourist derives its revenue from advertising and selling ancillary services, the general public is able to register on the site as a ' member ' and use a number of the website's services at no cost.

The VirtualTourist website is in English.

Corriere della Sera ( an Italian newspaper ) listed VirtualTourist as one of the " big three " travel community websites in 2005 ( along with TripAdvisor and Worldsurface ).

VirtualTourist hosts content such as tips and reviews, online forums, sells advertising and provides travel booking or link to travel booking.

VirtualTourist uses social media techniques to provide not just content for travel issues, but to enable a sense of community through its active travel forums.

In July 2008, VirtualTourist. com, Inc. and sister site Onetime were acquired by global Internet travel company Expedia ( owners of Tripadvisor. com ) for a reported $ 85 million.

In a September 2007 International Herald Tribune article about how online travel agencies like Orbitz. com were enabling the capability of users to add tips and helpful content like social networking travel websites, New York Times contributor Bob Tedeschi said, " As fast-growing as the new travel networking tools are ( i. e., Orbitz. com and others ), they have far to go before they challenge the category leaders, Yahoo Travel and VirtualTourist. com.

The volume is a piece of passionate special pleading, written with the heat -- and often with the wisdom, it must be said -- of a Liberal damning the shortsightedness of politicians from 1782 to 1832.

These were often carefully written out with a great deal of thought behind them.

Related to written literature, and often remaining temporarily frozen in written form, it loses its vitality when transcribed or removed from its oral existence.

Linguistic ambiguity can be a problem in law ( see Ambiguity ( law )), because the interpretation of written documents and oral agreements is often of paramount importance.

This kind of formal English, particularly written English, is often called " standard English ".

Large programs were often written with the most-used subroutines at the top of the program to reduce the processing time for calls.

The next sentence is often translated " Crantor adds, that this is testified by the prophets of the Egyptians, who assert that these particulars are narrated by Plato are written on pillars which are still preserved.

Memoirs have often been written by politicians or military leaders as a way to record and publish an account of their public exploits.

As in so many programming languages, the operation ( V, x ) is often written V ← x ( or some similar notation ), and ( V ) is implied whenever a variable V is used in a context where a value is required.

The first BBSes used homebrew software, quite often written or customized by the SysOps themselves, running on early S-100 microcomputer systems such as the Altair, IMSAI and Cromemco under the CP / M operating system.

Binary operations are often written using infix notation such as a * b, a + b, a · b or ( by juxtaposition with no symbol ) ab rather than by functional notation of the form f ( a, b ).

Many of these letters were written to the children of her former governess Annie Carter Moore, particularly to her eldest son Noel who was often ill.

Although written literature is only slowly evolving ( due to the predominance of French as the " language of the educated "), there exists a wealth of oral literature, which is often tales of kings and heroes.

The rhyming songs, poems and tales written in the form of ballads often relate to the itinerant and rebellious spirit of Australia in The Bush, and the authors and performers are often referred to as bush bards.

By the 1920s, composers of Tin Pan Alley and Broadway used ballad to signify a slow, sentimental tune or love song, often written in a fairly standardized form ( see below ).

In computer science, satisfiability ( often written in all capitals or abbreviated SAT ) is the problem of determining if the variables of a given Boolean formula can be assigned in such a way as to make the formula evaluate to TRUE.

Before the advent of printing, breviaries were written by hand and were often richly decorated with initials and miniature illustrations telling stories in the lives of Christ or the saints, or stories from the Bible.

This source code is written in a programming language, which is an artificial language often more restrictive or demanding than natural languages, but easily translated by the computer.

Very often the results are written to some internal CPU register for quick access by subsequent instructions.

Single-sex theatrical troupes often have some performers cross-dress to play roles written for members of the opposite sex.

Much of the genre's atmosphere echoes film noir, and written works in the genre often use techniques from detective fiction.

The popularity and accessibility of strips meant they were often clipped and saved ; authors including John Updike and Ray Bradbury have written about their childhood collections of clipped strips.

A compiler is a computer program ( or set of programs ) that transforms source code written in a programming language ( the source language ) into another computer language ( the target language, often having a binary form known as object code ).

The designation " VT " is often said to refer to " variable time ".

In the past, ablation was often not considered until pharmacological options had been exhausted, often after the patient had suffered substantial morbidity from recurrent episodes of VT and ICD shocks.

The loss of 3rd generation machines within a battle would often result in defeat, however fielding a 3rd generation VT afforded a team an advantage.

Only HT, LF, and CR are universally well handled, as BS is often used by applications to indicate deleting the previous character, and VT and FF are often poorly handled by applications that do not assume the use of a fixed character and page size.

For one thing, this is not a subject often discussed or analyzed.

But more important, and the thing which the casual traveler and the blind sojourner often do not see, is that these places and activities are often the settings in which Persians exercise their extraordinary aesthetic sensibilities.

Yet within this limitation there is an astonishing variety: design as intricate as that in the carpet or miniature, with the melodic line like the painted or woven line often flowing into an arabesque.

Yet often fear persists because, even with the most rigid ritual, one is never quite free from the uneasy feeling that one might make some mistake or that in every previous execution one had been unaware of the really decisive act.

`` Most often '', she says, `` it's the monogamous relationship that is dishonest ''.

If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.

It is often stated that Copernican astronomy is ' simpler ' than Ptolemaic.

1543 A.D. is often venerated as the birthday of the scientific revolution.

But when these expectations are once too often ground into the dust, innocence can falter, since its strength is according to the strength of him who possesses it.

Next I refer to our program in space exploration, which is often mistakenly supposed to be an integral part of defense research and development.

The relatively long and often colorful selections in this anthology enable the reader to become genuinely absorbed in what is said, whether he responds with anger or applause.

The continuities, contrasts, and similarities discernible when past and present are surveyed together are inexhaustible and the one is often understood through the other.

It is true that this distinction between style and idea often approaches the arbitrary since in the end we must admit that style and content frequently influence or interpenetrate one another and sometimes appear as expressions of the same insight.

That he read some of the books assigned to him with a studied carefulness is evident from his notes, which are often so full that they provide an unquestionable basis for the identification of reviews that were printed without his signature.

The religious quest is often intense and deep, and there are students on every campus who are seriously wrestling with the most profound questions of meaning and value.

His neighbors celebrated his return, even if it was only temporary, and Morgan was especially gratified by the quaint expression of an elderly friend, Isaac Lane, who told him, `` A man that has so often left all that is dear to him, as thou hast, to serve thy country, must create a sympathetic feeling in every patriotic heart ''.

Without a precise knowledge of Germanic philology, however, it is debatable whether their use was not more often a source of confusion and error than anything else.

Youth may be, and often is, skeptical, cynical or despairing ; ;

Although Patchen has given previous evidence of an interest in jazz, the musical group that he works with, the Chamber Jazz Sextet, is often ignored by jazz critics.

He is forced to play for little money, and must often take another job to live.