What is krugosvet-travel-journal?

Krugosvet is an independent travel information portal built as a full-stack web application. The platform serves as a single hub for everything a traveler might want: a news feed covering the tourism industry with categories, search, and comments, a browsable catalog of excursions and tour packages with filters for country, type, and price, and destination guides with photos, linked excursions, and related articles. Registered users get a personal cabinet where they can save favorite articles, excursions, and destinations, and track the history of their bookings. Anyone can submit a consultation request either from a specific excursion page or via a general form. Admins get a separate panel to create, edit, and delete articles, excursions, and destinations, manage bookings, respond to consultation requests, moderate comments, and view an action log. The site supports light and dark themes that toggle manually and also auto-detect the user's system preference. Under the hood, the backend is Python with Flask, a lightweight web framework, with MySQL as the database and SQLAlchemy as the database layer. The frontend is built entirely from plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript with no additional UI libraries, a deliberate choice to demonstrate direct browser API skills. The whole application runs inside Docker containers, so starting it locally is a single command. For production use, the Flask development server is swapped for gunicorn. The project is described as a portfolio-level fullstack application aimed at a Junior-to-Pre-Middle developer skill level, built without frontend frameworks to show foundational browser API knowledge.