VA project born as a thesis of industrial engineering in the Andes University (Bogota Colombia) with the purpose of building a space for promoting a good image about Colombia and today it has become a realityin an amazing website called www.colombia4you.com.

The final goal of this community on line is to create a tourist guide where the content is written by all their members. At the same time as the guide is growing, the networking system can make the traveling easier as people related by a theme can get together from all around the world and find useful information for them.

This company founded by 4 friends is willing to take this platform to other places as a "travel4you" system to administrate information. As the system keeps on working, the platform construct by Joomla will continue remarking its useful work.The market shows progress in tourism as well.
While Colombia was ignored as a touristic possible destination because of its issues and reputation, a plan was made as this area could find a solution for the economy. The purpose of improving the security was proposed in 2002 by Alvaro Uribe Velez after he was elected president of Colombia. His procedures got results and only in this year the Colombian government has reported an increase of 18% in places like Bogotá, Cartagena and Medellín. This cities as well as others have got to be some of the best choices between others South American destinations.

The different weathers that can be found along the country simulating an eternal spring-fall or the exotic tropical, as well as the environment, cultures, traditions and even more its people belonging to every region are the reason why this country will be the new destination for the years coming up.

Now targeting this area wouldn’t be a success without the proper tools. The platform Based on the core of Joomla 1.0.11, with commercial extensions like ijoomla, templates by Rockettheme and integrations with components like Community Builder (joomlapolis), Joomlaboard (tsmf), Joomblog and many other modules are very suitable for the construction of the platform ‘Colombia4you’. This group found that this stage and its extensions will help to accomplish the objective of getting to be the best travel guide for Colombian tourism. Its success is already showed in other networking based sites as the future of the communication are the networking applications under the frame of Internet 2.0.

Like this, using a social network for transmitting specific information, targeting an interesting growing spot like tourism in Colombia and under interactive platforms of easy manipulation like the one offered by Joomla, is guiding this dream to end up in a prosper reality that will be used for other places and even new networking themes.