Can’t-Miss Travel Bloggers & Tweeters
Inspired by (and in full agreement with) Chris Elliott’s generous lists of the “50 travel blogs I can’t live without” and “50 travel twitterers you should follow,” and in the true spirit of Twitter’s weekly #FollowFriday phenom, we’ve compiled a list of must-visit blogs (and their microblogs!) read feverishly by our team, as well as some new-to-us notables.
Are there others we’ve missed? If so, comments welcome! We’re always on the lookout for great bloggers, tweeters and contacts helping to advance the growing online travel community. There are an incredible amount of great travel tweeters out there, so please feel free to share!
To those listed below, thanks for providing such inspiring and thought-provoking travel content:
• AOL’s Gadling (Tweeting @Gadling)
• Away blog (Tweeting @awayblog)
• BookingBuddy Blog (Tweeting @BookingBuddy)
• Budget Travel’s This Just In (Tweeting @BudTravel)
• Conde Nast’s Perrin Post (Tweeting @wendyperrin)
• Cool Travel Guide (Tweeting @laradunston)
• Elliott.org (Tweeting @ElliottDotOrg)
• Facing the Street (Tweeting @FacingTheStreet)
• Farsighted Fly Girl (Tweeting @FarsightedGirl)
• Galavanting.TV (Gals tweeting @Galavanting and @KimMance)
• GoVisitHawaii.com (Tweeting @GoVisitHawaii)
• Helium blog
• HotelChatter.com (Tweeting @HotelChatter)
• IntelligentTravel by National Geographic (Tweeting @Marilyn_Res)
• Jaunted.com (Tweeting @Jaunted)
• Jetsetters Magazine Blog Network blog
• Johnny Jet’s Travel Blog (Tweeting @JohnnyJet)
• L.A. Times’ Daily Travel & Deal Blog (Tweeting @LATimesTravel)
• LoriHenry.ca (Tweeting @LoriHenry)
• Miami Herald’s Travels with Jane (Tweeting @JaneWooldridge)
• Orbitz Travel Blog
• PeterGreenberg.com, including ‘Travel Detective Blog’ and ‘Daily Travel Tips’ (Tweeting @PeterSGreenberg)
• SmarterTravel.com’s ‘Today In Travel’ and ‘Up Front with Tim Winship’
• Southern Byways (Tweeting @travelinggal)
• St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s ‘‘Hit the Road, Jack’ blog
• Taking the Kids blog (Tweeting @takingthekids)
• The Inland Traveler (Tweeting @CarolynBurnsBass)
• The many great Uptake Blogs (They’re tweeting all over the Twitterverse!)
• Travel Babel blog (Tweeting @ClaireWalter)
• Travel Channel’s Worldhum (Tweeting @worldhum, @jbenning, @myessis and @vmconners)
• TravelByDeals.com
• TravelingMamas.com (Tweeting @Cajun_Mama, @DesertMama, @karasw and @MudslideMama)
• TravelMuse Blogs (Tweeting @TravelMuse)
• TravelSavvyMom blog (Tweeting @travelsavvymom, @TravelSavvyKayt, @JaneECR, @TSRebecca, @Sascha_Zuger)
• Tripso.com
• USA Today’s Cruise Log (Tweeting @CruiseLog)
• USA Today’s Hotel Hotsheet
• Wall Street Journal’s Middle Seat Terminal (Tweeting @MiddleSeat)
• Wanderlust and Lipstick (Tweeting @Wanderluster)
• Washington Post’s Travel Log (Tweeting @travellog)
• WeJustGotBack.com (Tweeting @CarolynWJGB, @WeJustGotBack)
More great travel tweeters:
@AdventureSome
@AKNickerson
@AlisonSWellner
@ARoadRetraveled
@ashleejoy83
@avitalb
@BizAvWeekly
@boldlygosolo
@BrilliantTrips / @BrilliantTips
@charyn
@cityspur
@clampetfrommers
@cmmayo1
@collazoprojects
@Crazycanuckblog
@DavidPaulAppell
@davitydave
@deliciousbaby
@dianaburrell
@denschaal
@DonnaLHull
@earthXplorer
@elcano
@ellenbarone
@elliottng
@everettpotter
@EverywhereTrip
@EWanderlust
@ExpertCruiser
@fareologist
@GalvestonIsland
@getatraveldeal
@globeizer
@GoPlanit
@GTPmagazine
@HavePack
@Heather_Poole
@HMalone
@hotspringer
@iKangaroo
@InsiderPerks
@jeannebee
@Jana_Jones
@JetWithKids
@kiwiwriter
@laradunston
@LauraBly
@Lbleiberg
@LisaDavisMedia
@MatadorNetwork
@MelodyMoser
@michellehiggins
@Nancydbrown
@nerdseyeview
@nickbowditch
@parisandjohn
@pen4hire
@purplepassport
@randmcnally
@RebStevenson / @sleeping_around
@sandrafriend
@slaniergraham
@SlowTrav (similarly tweeting from @PaulineK, @SlowEurope, @SlowTravelTours)
@soultravelers3
@suntravelblog
@TannerLatham
@TheGlobeTripper
@TheTravelTart
@thetripchicks
@travel_the_worl
@Travelaholic
@TravelAndrew
@travelblissful
@travelraider
@travelinggreen
@TravelnOnRadio
@travelpants
@traveltipsguy
@tripwolf
@twitchhiker
@umaxwell
@vagabondish
@visitflorida
@WineTravel
@WritingTravel
@yapta
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Tags: #followfriday, online travel, P.R., public relations, social media, travel bloggers, travel blogs, travel tweeters, travel web, twitter
March 27th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
Hello!
I would love to be added to this great travel tweeter list!
@whereivebeen
Thanks
Katy Lynch
Community Manager
March 27th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
It would be a huge honour for me to be added to this list.
Thank you.
Best regards,
Keith
‘velvetescape’
March 27th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
Great list and thanks for including me, but @PaulineK (me) and @SlowEurope (my website) have nothing to do with @SlowTrav - except that I used to run SlowTrav but haven’t in over 2 yrs and we share the “slow” philosophy and choose vacation rentals for accommodations.
March 27th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
I regularly blog about travel with helpful info for all. Would love to be included in your list.
Thanks,
Jeanine
@jcreaturetravel
March 27th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
I blog and Tweet primarily about travel and interesting things to do in the Midwest US. Always especially looking for other Midwest-oriented blogs and Tweeps to share info with. Stop by Midwest Guest at http://www.midwestguest.com or Tweet me at midwestguest
March 27th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
A wonderful list and it would be wonderful to be included.
Kate Hedges
@nocrowds
March 27th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Great list, I’ve found a few new people to follow! For those interested in lesbian travel, I’m posting on the subject every day @girlports
Cheers,
Tanya
March 27th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
I hope you’ll add us to the list, we work hard never to be boring and so far 964 followers agree!
twittering about our trips and the travel website business at twitter.com/gonomad
GoNOMAD.com of S. Deerfield MA and the rest of the world!
March 27th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
A long and lovely list. Please squeeze me in.
Blog: http://stuckattheairport.com/
Tweeting as: @hbaskas
Harriet Baskas, MSNBC.com’s Well-Mannered Traveler
March 27th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
I blog about online travel, metasearch, the OTAs etc. Count me in.
March 27th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
All - Thanks for so many great comments & suggestions! Certainly some more great contacts to add the travel list with great, meaningful content & resources.
Pauline - My apologies, I believe we met when you were working with SlowTrav, so I thank you very much for the heads-up! It’s such a wonderful philosophy to travel with, especially in support of the professionally managed vacation rental side of hospitality. Keep up the great tweets!
Hope you’ve all found this list helpful - we encourage the continuation of related conversations
Happy #FollowFriday!
March 27th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
There is a whole other category of travel tweeters covering the industry (b2b) most of them, like me, also bloggers. If you start that category, please list me @jebworks
Tx
Joe
March 28th, 2009 at 1:14 am
I guess my Alaska travel blog is turning into a Mt. Redoubt Volcano blog! HA! Stand by…I feel another eruption coming on!!!!
http://www.alaskatravelgram.com
March 28th, 2009 at 4:42 am
nice list, but very US-centric, which is kind of ironic as the subject is travel. There’s a big old world out there, folks!
Mark Hodson
@101holidays
March 28th, 2009 at 8:05 am
Hi — Smart Women Travelers brings business travel to life. We offer a free community for women who travel often. Innovative ideas, tools and resources bring richness to women’s journeys when challenges of balancing work, home and travel are dissolved.
http://www.smartwomentravelers.com
http://www.pearlsoftravelwisdom.com
@smartwomantrav
Thanks!
Carol Margolis
March 28th, 2009 at 9:37 am
@JillBrazil
Brazil Travel Specialist
March 28th, 2009 at 11:38 am
Hey there,
Very useful list - be glad to be added. I am a freelance travel journo based in East Africa and also run a low-key hotel on the east coast of Zanzibar.
Rachel
@mustaphasplace
March 28th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
Smart Women Travelers brings business travel to life. We have a community (free) of women who travel in their careers. Innovative tools and resources bring richness to their journeys when challenges of balancing work, home and travel are dissolved.
@smartwomantrav
March 28th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
I’m in the Catholic travel market at http://www.TheCatholicTraveler.com and @CatholicTravel
Thanks!
Mountain
March 28th, 2009 at 10:44 pm
would love to be added to the travel list
http://twitter.com/wherespaul also http://twitter.com/theworldbyroad guys are would be great for the list also tweeted this post
March 29th, 2009 at 9:50 am
Thanks for including my travel blog! This is a great list; now I have to go through and check out everyone else
March 29th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
Hi
I hope you’ll consider adding my Twitter (has just been up for a week) or my website: http://www.canadacoo.com, which has been online for several years and had 339,000 visits last year.
I’ve found this list very helpful. Leads to lots of interesting people! Thanks for posting it.
Cheers
Lucy Izon - Travel Writer
@CanadaCool
March 29th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
Ooops. Typo. that should be http://www.canadacool.com
March 29th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
Great list, Amanda, and it’s an honor to be included! Now I’m off to check out some of the twitter names and blogs that are new to me. Many thanks!
March 30th, 2009 at 8:07 am
It’s times like this I feel like such an outsider…. I give advice to travel and tourism industry and love connecting folks like those who appear on this list with the travel and tourism industry via my blog and podcast.
Happy Twittering!
March 30th, 2009 at 9:39 am
Great list! I love #FollowFriday and always find some great people to follow. Thanks for including @visitflorida on the list!
Best,
Nate Long
VISIT FLORIDA
@theprguy
March 30th, 2009 at 11:00 am
Hey guys add me! TheBrooklynNomad.com
* Daily updates on travel news, deals and tips
*Saturday travel shot (aka pic of the week)
*Sunday city spotlight
March 30th, 2009 at 11:00 am
p.s. @brooklynnomad on Twitter.
March 30th, 2009 at 11:10 am
Nice! I’m on the the list of Great Travel Tweeters! Now to get my website listed
Thanks for the mention!
March 30th, 2009 at 11:10 am
Great to see so many of our friends here. We’ve been included on a number of these travel twitter lists and would love to see @AuthenticCoast on a future version. We tweet about travel, food, wine and adventure on the Nova Scotia Authentic Seacoast in Atlantic Canada.
March 30th, 2009 at 11:11 am
Hello everyone! Travelocity’s Window Seat Blog (http://windowseatblog.com) is also a great resource for travelers. Have a great day!
March 30th, 2009 at 11:11 am
Hi
We haven’t been tweeting long but I think we are putting out useful information with links to videos, photos and information to help people better understand the incredible Lindblad/National Geographic experience that is far different from the large ship cruiselines.
I believe we are fairly unique in our category of small ship adventure cruises. Follow us at @LindbladExp and also our PR guru @JenniferGpr
Thanks,
Jill Ackerman
March 30th, 2009 at 11:11 am
Nice list with some suspect inclusions (like @jetwithkids - 9 followers, 0 updates - how is that a good travel tweeter?). Overall solid…and if you’re interested in Hawaii travel updates, follow me and:
* @DavidHTA
* @OahuVB
* @MichaelNi
* @shmerin
* @prmelissa
* @hiloprgal
* @buzzbunny
* @rebeccapang
* @PleasantHoliday
* @OutriggerHawaii
* @AquaHotels
* @BeatofHawaii
* @HawaiianVillage
To name a few…
March 30th, 2009 at 11:21 am
Would love to be part of the list with my Stuck at the Airport blog (http://stuckattheairport.com).
Tweeting: @hbaskas
Also write the Well Mannered Traveler for MSNBC.com and At the Airport for USAToday.com.
March 30th, 2009 at 11:21 am
I’m looking forward to being on the list soon, @hillsofafrica - we specialize in customized travel to Africa. New to Twitter and have a blog, http://hillsofafricatravel.blogspot.com, soon moving over to Wordpress as I’m told that’s where we need to be. Enjoy your day and thanks for the fabulous list of “have to” follows. Sandy
March 30th, 2009 at 11:28 am
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Enjoy,
Joe
March 30th, 2009 at 11:32 am
We’d love to be included in this list! We’re covering travel tips for San Francisco, for traveling like a local.
We are known as @blizzzzcrib on Twitter. Come follow!
Our blog: http://sfrentalhome.weebly.com/sf-travel-tips.html
cheers!
Jenny
March 30th, 2009 at 11:38 am
We are proud to have @kesslerhotels representing travel news, trends, and ideas in our Kessler Collection boutique cities. See http://www.twitter.com/kesslerhotels or http://www.kesslercollection.com
March 30th, 2009 at 11:45 am
A huge thanks to all for contributing to this conversation - There are some truly excellent tweeters and bloggers to add to the list here! We’ve already found some new-to-us people, tweeples and sites, too
Also, thanks for the heads-up @nathankam (and sorry for the typo) - I meant to list @JetWithAnya from JetWithKids.com.
Keep ‘em coming - While the list has grown with some great travel resources already, I’m sure there are more throughout the twitter- and blog-o-sphere in all categories!
And on that note, isn’t it amazing to see how the ‘travel’ category is embracing (and booming in) these new social channels?
March 30th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
I’d love to be included as well !
Check out @cruiseplan and see if our CruiseTweets pass for good twitter travel content.
Thanks!
Michael Given, MCC
Cruise Planners
@cruiseplan
March 30th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
Wow great list. I’d love to be added.
http://theglobaltraveller.blogspot.com
@globtrav
March 30th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
What a great list, thanks!
We really appreciate you adding @soultravelers3, we are the family that has been traveling the world since 2006. We have been twittering for over a year and have over 7600 followers, so have learned a few things along the way that we share with all, primarily on travel.
Did you know we just won 2 coveted Lonely Planet Travel Awards? One was for BEST MICROBLOGGING for our soultravelers3 Twitter account! ( We were nominated and voted as Best Microblogging, Best Video and Best Themed and honored to be with other winners and nominees like National Geographic and Elliottdotorg).
We also had a very popular recent post about Twitter and Travel2.0 that you or your readers might be interested in on ways to use Twitter with travel:
http://www.soultravelers3.com/2009/02/twitter-travel-20.html
March 30th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
Wow great list.
I’d love to be added.
http://theglobaltraveller.blogspot.com
@globtrav
March 30th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
Thanks for putting together such a great resource. I’d love to be included in your list:
@jgilling
March 30th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
Hi to all the tweeters at ypartnership blog. Thanks for including me in your list of travel tweeters. Please stop by What a Trip at http://www.Nancydbrown.com. I’m based in the San Francisco bay area and write about travels from Northern California and beyond.
March 31st, 2009 at 12:11 am
Hello there. I’d love to be included on your list. @jerusalemite . I tweet exclusively about traveling and culture in Jerusalem!
March 31st, 2009 at 8:22 pm
Thanks for including me as a twitter to follow. Hope people will also follow my blog about books and travel (and sometimes movies and travel) at http://atravelerslibrary.com
I’m honored to be in this company!
April 6th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
Great list! I’m tweeting about Hawaii tourism on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/nathankam
May 3rd, 2009 at 7:01 am
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June 25th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
Great list, and very helpful. We’d love to be added as well. We tweet about spas and spa resorts for the consumer and spa industry tidbits for the wellness professional, @spaindex, and we’d love to be included on your list.
July 10th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
Definately will not go to Vilamoura anymore, 6 Hour rounds of Golf and 4.5 Euros for a beer , we will stay clear of the Vilamoura golf courses this year, and the so called free shuttle bus turns up if you are lucky.
August 6th, 2009 at 11:04 am
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August 10th, 2009 at 2:04 am
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October 8th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
Just came across this list. Hope you’ll consider adding me — @don_george — to your list of tweeters. @geoex is another great tweeter, as is @Marilyn_Res. Cheers! — Don
November 7th, 2009 at 10:43 pm
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November 19th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
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December 9th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
What a wonderful resource for Travel Tweeps, thank you for taking the time to compile!!
January 26th, 2010 at 8:04 pm
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March 31st, 2010 at 2:57 am
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July 1st, 2010 at 7:50 am
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