2007
During the past few months, we realized it is a time consuming and frustrating experience to find great travel blogs. We wished for a tool somewhere to help us. We couldn’t find it. We decided to build a travel blog search tool, add our favorite travel blogs and then ask the great blogosphere to help us with the search results. We hope, with your help, to create one of the most comprehensive travel blog search tools on the web. Of course, the search box is “widgetized” and available to anyone who wants to include it in their blog. Instructions can be found here.
How it Works
Recommend your favorite travel blogs to us via your blog, email or a comment to this post and we will add them to the search engine. Check back often, as we continue to add new blogs and update the list. To get it going, we added 20 of the travel blogs we consider up-to-date, useful and welcoming to all travelers. We know there are thousands more, let us know your favorites.
Family Travel:
The Silent “i”
Family Travel
Consumer Travel:
Jaunted
Geeky Traveler
Intelligent Travel
More Than Points
Upgrade Travel Better
Amateur Traveler
Blissful Travel
Outdoorzy
Travel Talk with Beth Whitman
Jeanne LeBlanc, Coach Class
Practical Travel Gear
Travel Industry News:
Cranky Flier
The Elliott Blog
Hotel Blogs 2.0
Plane Buzz
Les Explorers
Travel Technology
Sustainable Travel
46 Responses
Bonjour,
Good idea and smart idea !
Send a mail to Guido, from Happy Hotelier, he make a incredible job to try to maintain the best travel blogs list over the web. But, just with it’s hand !!!
go to : http://www.happyhotelier.com/t-list/
I will make a post soon about your initiative
Best regards from France
Claude / Les Explorers
This is very exciting! Can you put the search box in this post so we try it? It is also in the sidebar but for our loyal RSS subscribers they can’t see the sidebar.
OK I nominate bravenewtraveler.com.
Congratulations for your idea.
I nominate one more blog. Here it is:
hoteles 2.0 (http://hoteles20.blogspot.com).
I have written a post about this new travel blog search in my blog, and I have included the search option.
Thank you very much.
Rafael Martínez
This is a great idea. I enjoy traveling and any tool to help sort through the travel blogs will be a welcome addition to my bookmarks.
Hello visitors!
Claude, thank you for the comment. I will certainly follow up with Guido to inquire about importing the entire T-List into the search directory. Great idea!
Elliott, I will add bravenewtraveler (thanks for the recommendation!), and I added the widget to the post.
Rafael, thank you for visiting, I checked out your blog and appreciate the post about the Kango widget (although my Spanish is not that great!). I will add your blog to our search directory. Gracias!
David, welcome and hope you continue to return as the search widget grows!
Cheers, Gudrun
Great idea. Looking forward to see that working:)
Peter
Pangkor Island blog
Bicycle adventures blog
Yangshuo Travel Guide Blog
Hi,
This is a great idea.
Even is in spanish, I will suggest: http://megustaelturismo.es
I like this idea. I’ll nominate:
http://www.nerdseyeview.com/blog
http://www.arewethereyetarewethereyet.com
http://www.vagablogging.net
My site on Puerto Rico
Thanks
Whoops. forgot the address
http://www.visit-the-coqui.com
my site on Puerto Rico
Hi,
Good idea! I will write about it on my blog tomorrow and recommend some of my favourite travel blogs.
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This is clearly self-serving but I would recommend http://www.planeteye.com/blog, which has a focus on how GPS is playing its way into the travel industry.
thank you all the new visitors!
Peter, Nando, Mike, Coqui, and Mark, thank you for the suggestions - we will add these blogs into the database.
Erica, thank you for writing about the widget on your blog….
Cheers!
Would you like to add my Europe travel blog to the search tool?
http://www.europealacarte.co.uk/blog
Karen, thank you for visiting and we will certainly add your blog!
Cheers,
Would be grateful if you could include my blog: http://www.aluxurytravelblog.com
Kango, thanks for adding the L.A. Times Daily Travel & Deal Blog, http://travel.latimes.com to your search index.
We’ll be watching your site, search and blog progress closely in the New Year.
Paul, thank you for visiting, we will certainly add your blog to the list!
Andrew, look forward to hearing your comments about our new product.
Thank you both for visiting,
Happy Holidays!
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This is a great idea. I would appreciate it if you can add my blog http://travel-news-deals.com
http://www.maldivestourism.net
cheers
Happy New Year!
Krista and Maldives Tourism, we will certainly add your blogs. Thank you for visiting,
Cheers,
Thanks Gudrun for contacting me by email regarding this project.
I appreciate your offer to add my blogs to the engine. Here they are :
http://www.radaron.com (tags : Travel Tourism Internet Marketing)
http://www.radaron.com (tags : Voyage Tourisme Marketing Internet)
http://www.mytravelbackpack.com (tags : travel picture backpacker)
Thanks again!
thanks for visiting Mathieu, we will add your blogs as listed above. And sorry about the 500 error, not sure what happened there. I appreciate you taking the time to respond. Would love to hear if you have any other travel blogs that you think should be added to the search widget.
Cheers!
Hi guys, thanks for the post and your email.
though http://ExposedPlanet.com (tags: travel, photography, culture) is a travel blog, it does not really fit in the categories above as it is more aphotographic journey over the 7 continents and its people, from sealevel to Everest…
From the About:
I have started ExposedPlanet.com not only as a way to show my portfolio, but also to share the beauty of our planet. Nowadays negative press & media might make people scared of everything foreign or different: culture, religion, people and the places themselves. This xenophobia is taking over our lives and prevents us from seeing the real world as it is: a wonderful place with beautiful people. There are no bad or evil countries, religions or people. There is bad and good people in every culture, including your own.
I hope I can share a bit of the amazement I have enjoyed while traveling the 7 continents. The more I see, the more I know I still have to see and I will. Life is too short to focus on not-existing enemies & fears.
Thanks for your attention,
with best regards,
Harry
This is a new project and has just started. It a place where cyclist in general and bicycle travellers in particular can get a free blog (like http://yourname.biketravellers.com).
If we all cycle a bit more instead of driving, then the world will become just a bit better, cleaner and more fun. And besides it makes for great stories and photos
Thanks,
Harry (the same as from ExposedPlanet
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I’d like to nominate: http://blogs.away.com/family_guide/
Three keywords = “family travel advice”
Many thanks!
Alistair, Away.com
Hi, Congratulations on a great site.
I’d like to nominate WickedGoodTravelTips.com
keywords = Travel Tips, Sightseeing, Travel Advise
Thanks very much!
Susan
Wicked Good Travel Tips.com
Get A Tip, Give A Tip, Pass A Tip On
Great idea here. I’ll nominate The Suite Life at http://www.perfectescapes.com/thesuitelife
Tags would be: “luxury hotels and luxury travel deals”
Hello Alistair, Susan and Luxe, thank you for visiting and including your blogs - we will add those to the search widget!
Cheers,
Well done Gudrun! Looking forward to seeing how this develops - the widget is a superb idea.
Thanks for your email and including The Tourism & Hospitality Diaries (http://www.thetalentjungle.com/hospitality_blog)
Keywords - Hospitality, Hotels, Tourism
Other blogs you may like to consider
- http://www.HotelBlogs.org (Hotels, Hotel Blogs, Blog Aggregator)
- http://www.webtravel2.com (travel 2.0, web 2.0, hotel marketing)
Best regards
Thanks for visiting JJ, I will add your blogs to the list and appreciate your response,
Cheers!
Great idea! Please add http://www.trippist.com to your list. Keywords: Amsterdam - Holland - budget
Thank you!
Would love to see Less Than a Shoestring added to your search engine.
keywords: budget travel, low-budget travel
I think you should also consider
Budget Travel
Intelligent Travel
High Culture on a Low Budget
Spendthrift Shoestring
IHT Globespotters
Perceptive Travel Blog
EuroCheapo
Rambling Traveler
Vagabondish
Oh, and of course The Amateur Traveler.
Hello Trippist and PoetLover - thank you for visiting and for your suggestions. These will all be added to the database!
Cheers,
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Two new travel blogs for you:
http://blogs.away.com/travel_guide/
Keywords = “travel advice, travel inspiration”
http://blogs.away.com/beach_guide/
Keywords = “beach travel advice”
Many thanks!
Alistair, Away.com
I would like to add my blog to your site please.
http://www.samanthabassett.typepad.com Its inspiration, news and offers for anyone looking for a luxury wedding or honeymoon abroad. thanks Sam
Take a look at http://www.worldreviewer.com and its blog http://www.worldreviewer.com/blog - holiday ideas and inspiration from experts, but starting at the travel experiences end rather than lodging reviews…
Hi there -
Congrats on the site and good luck with the new name! We’d like to include our blog for budget travel in Europe: http://www.eurocheapo.com/blog
Thanks,
EuroCheapo.com
We would like to see Blavel! added to your list.
http://www.blavel.com/
Keywords: travel blogs pictures
Keep up the good work.
I’ve just started a new travel tech/travel online start-up blog with colleague al james at http://www.traveltelegraph.com, with travel industry news etc
all comments welcome!