Database design problem for multiple language application

Hi All,
We are working on a travelling portal and for a traveling portal its content and details are the heart.we are planning to have it in multiple locale so this means we need to handle the dynamic data for each locale.
currently we have following tables
Destination
Transport
Places of Interests
user comments etc.
each table contains a lot of fields like
Name
ShortDescription
LongDescription
and many other fields which can contains a lot of data and we need to handle data in locale specific way.
i am not sure how best we can design an application to handle this case,one thing came to my mind is like putting extra column for each locale in each table but that means for a new locale things needs to be changed from database to code level and that is not good at all.
Since each table contains a lot of columns which can contain data eligible for internationalization so my question is what might be the best way to handle this case
After doing some analysis and some goggling one approach that came to my mind is as below..
i am planning to create a translation table for each table,like for destination i have the following design
table languages
-- uuid (varchar)
-- language_id(varchar)
-- name (varchar)
table Destination
--uuid (varchar)
other fields which are not part of internationalization.
table Destination_translation
-- id (int)
-- destination_id (int)
-- language_id (int)
-- name (text)
-- description(text)
Any valuable suggestion for above mentioned approach are most welcome...

This approach sounds reasonable - it is the same approach used by Oracle Applications (Oracle ERP software). It de-normalizes information into two tables for every key object - one contains information that is not language sensitive and the other contains information that is language sensitive. The two tables are joined by a common internal id. Views are then created for each language that join these tables based on the common id and the language id column in the second table.
HTH
Srini

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