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.

Letter from the editor continues.

Let us know what you think below.