Today we launch a new and improved Travel site. When we conducted research at the end of last year, many readers said they wanted to see more content that helped them choose where to travel as well as how to plan their trips.

The major difference you'll notice is that the design has been updated to make it easier to use – an easily searchable research tool for travellers. You will find permanent links to UK holidays, family holidays, city breaks and beach breaks as well as our usual mix of travel news and features. We've also made the discounted breaks we sell under Guardian Holiday Offers easier to find and relevant to the editorial content that you're reading, so if you're inspired to book a holiday, you can easily find our recommendations.

Over the past couple of years, we've been experimenting and trying to come up with new ways to present the type of content that makes it easier for you to plan your travels – interactive city guides, maps of hotels we've reviewed around the world and the UK's best budget eats, all of our top 10s. So it's no coincidence that we decided to roll out the new travel front on the same day as we launch our guide to Tokyo – written exclusively by local writers and bloggers. Over on the guide, we've been dabbling with immersive video, cult flash browser games, a Vimeo slideshow and scrolling gallery formats – you can read all about these experiments here.

This is, of course, only the beginning of the changes; we will continue to innovate to bring you a more interactive experience. In the coming weeks and months we will be making further changes: creating a better search tool to find all of our content; developing a regular slot so that you can drop us ideas and suggestions; making it easier for readers to leaves tips on Been there, which currently holds 30,000 recommendations; and launching a blogger's network to provide the widest range of voices in the broadest range of locations.

Let us know what you think, and we'll try to let you know what were thinking, too.