Welcome to our new travel site – which we hope you will find useful, interesting and engaging. Our redesigned and rebuilt site combines the best travel writing from our specialist journalists with the breadth of experience of our millions of well-travelled readers around the world. In addition you will notice that we are making far more of our stunning pictures, with bigger images on wider, clearer pages.

Your travel tips and photos have been feeding our Been there online community for over a year now, producing both a vibrant site and a weekly spread of readers’ guides in the Guardian's Travel section. The popularity of Been there means that we are putting your recommendations at the heart of the site, attaching them to all our relevant content, expanding the core Been there site and increasing the visibility of our great community of tippers.

To help you explore the related articles, photo galleries and audio guides we offer on the world's cities, we have introduced a 'tagging' system. Every article, review and reader's tip has been clearly labelled as relevant to a particular country, city, type of trip – or all three. This makes it far easier to find all our relevant articles, tips, pictures and guides just by clicking on or searching for these key tags.

We have also worked hard to bring you the best relevant daily flight and hotel deals to help you put together your own trips. We will show you the best deals to the destination you are reading about, whether they are flights, hotels, our own readers' offers or travel auctions. Our popular late offers page and weekly Flyer email have also travelled with us to the new site, and we will be expanding our range of audio and video guides.

So it's over to you to tell us about your travels and what you think of the site.

Please post your feedback on our Travel blog, or email travel.editor@guardianunlimited.co.uk

Bon voyage!

Emily Bell
Director of digital content