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Freelance journalist from London, currently based in Buenos Aires. Vicky regularly writes on her blog at goinglocaltravel.com and shares tips, advice and news on travelling the local way: covering couchsurfing, hospitality tourism, travel networking and home exchanges.

WAYN: The relaunch

Newly relaunched WAYN

WAYN is one travel networking site I’ve never really got on with. It was a combination of the Twee cartoon mascot, the spam, and those one-line emails from guys trying to pick up a date. There also seemed to be a lot of users that weren’t even particularly interested in travel, instead spending most of their free time at home chatting online.

But just because it wasn’t for me I wouldn’t sneeze at its success. With 15 million members, WAYN is one of the biggest travel-networking sites out there and it boasts many happy, dedicated users.

The site has undergone an extensive overhaul, relaunching this week having tackled past criticism head on. (Including bidding adieu to their little cartoon friend.)

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