Every country of the world has a map page, which can be found if you’re able to get past the cheeky backpacking grasshopper on the homepage. After purchasing space, advertisers can upload their business text, image, or logo onto their country map page to which their business website will be linked. It’s a global race to see which country is most eager to hop on and fill their map the fastest to become the unofficial number ‘one’ world tourist destination.

Another one of those, ‘I wish I’d thought of that’ ideas came to fruition after Sue, one the website’s creators, heeded her eight year old son’s plea to help needy children. Knowing she was merely one drop in the ocean, the small amount of aid she could give wouldn’t help much. However, after realising the potential of the EarthHoppers.com idea, she knew millions of drops in the ocean would. So, this unique recipe was developed by two girls from Queensland Australia, Sue and Sandy, to successfully raise profits from each country’s map, with the intention of not only helping tourism, travellers, and advertisers, but aiding homeless, starving, and abused children across the globe.

“OUR EARTH’S GREAT RACE” officially begins hopping at 9am (AEST) on the 14th of June 2007. Businesses in the travel and tourism industry are encouraged to compete for the world’s unofficial title of the “Number One Tourist Destination.”