In continuing with my Ultimate List of Blog Ideas series, this article will cover blog ideas for travel bloggers. Travel bloggers are a fun bunch as their niche can be as small or big as they want. It can be focused on traveling to religious places, for sports, or just for leisure. This niche also can get away with doing some of the ideas listed on the Blog Ideas for Food Bloggers post because when traveling, there’s a lot of different foods to discover.
A travel blogger has to be detail oriented and really choose places that will spark interest with their audience. So, below, I’ve listed some blog ideas for travel bloggers. If you are a travel blogger or considering on becoming one, I hope this list helps generate more ideas.
Blog Ideas for Travel Bloggers
- History of a specific location
- Sharing cultural sports
- Feature cultural foods
- Tips on traveling to a specific city, state, province, or country
- Basic phrases heard in each country
- Interviewing important people from certain locations
- Covering cultural events
- Sharing cultural dances
- Tips on transportation used during travel
- What to pack for specific trips
- What not to do in certain travel locations
- Etiquette tips when speaking with locals in certain travel locations
- Features places that a lot of other people see as unique, in an odd or weird way
- Tips for going on a cruise
- Roundups for specific locations for any event (dates, romantic getaways, holidays)
- Roundup of places in certain cities of things people can do on the fly during a business trip in order to experience the location, but still get work done
- Tips on saving money while booking a trip (business, vacations, etc…)
- Review or Comparison of online trip booking sites
- Roundup of the best guided tours or group travel tours
- Review of guided tours or group travel tours
- Etiquette on what to wear in specific locations, especially certain countries
- Review and coverage of theater performances while traveling
- Feature museums
- Share insight on world crisis in any area of the world
- Participate and cover a cause in another country
This list could change, as I like to add to it from time to time. I also like to take suggestions. If you do make a suggestion, please make sure that it hasn’t already been mentioned.
For travel bloggers, I hope this helps you. Please note when I say “certain locations”, it could be anywhere. It’s important to keep your mind open. It doesn’t matter if you have a travel blog that only covers your own country… keep your mind open to the endless possibilities and always be ready to ask locals on what you should check out. “The world is your oyster”…. go and open it right up!
Thanks a Lot These Tips Really Helped me a Lot Since im a Travel Blogger
Great list Nile. Pretty much every square inch of the Islands where I live is a tourist destination and there are no shortage of people writing about it, but as someone who worked in the travel industry for 20+ years the one suggestion I have for anyone who decides to write about topics relating to the local culture is to be very serious about doing your homework and if possible connect with local historians and cultural experts.
Over the years we’ve had so many problems with writers misquoting the language, getting the customs wrong, and worst of all promoting historic sites with a complete disregard for cultural sensitivity. It’s gotten so bad many of the most beautiful historic and cultural sites are now fenced off to the public.
Nile, I love to travel and this is a great list of suggestions for travel bloggers to use to help visitors to their blog learn more about traveling. I think a blog series on travel would be a welcome addition to any blog that is travel related. Thanks for sharing this list of fantastic topics to write about!
I am a beginner in travel blogging. I like traveling very much and writing is my passion. Blogging about a place needs a lot of home work. Just writing about it can be found anywhere else but writing about it understanding its history, culture, specialty is what makes the blog or post interesting. I totally agree that giving full fledged info is very essential than giving just whereabouts the place. this could help many people especially tourists who are new to that place.
Thank you for sharing.
A comprehensive list. I’ve copied it into my Ulysses app to refer to.
We used to travel and blog for Lonely Planet’s Blogsherpa program so I can add a couple more ideas:
Join a forum such as Lonely Planet’s Thorn Tree forum and dig in to find and swap ideas.
Attend conferences for travel bloggers who are making a business out of their travel blogging. Sites like EyeForTravel are a way to learn about these.
Join a global travel bloggers’ group on Facebook and see whether you can get some kind of reciprocation going such as is done with other FB groups…
This is neat list, great suggestions. Thanks.
Hey Nile,
Thanks for compiling this awesome list. I am planning on creating a blog on my travel journal since i will be going on a world tour soon.
This is a perfect article that helps any travel bloggers and workers too. Being a travel worker I really like this article. Thank you.
I am just getting started in travel blogging. This article will REALLY help. Thanks a lot.
Thanks, these are some really useful tips. I especially like your idea about talking about money saving tips, because those help everyone.
I have an up-coming travel to Berlin, so I will definitely use your format to blog about my travel
Hey Nile,
I came here after a very long time. Feels great to be here. I am not a travel blogger but these are definitely some great suggestion for those who own such blogs. You always help people. Thank you so much.
Thanks for sharing this. Very useful tips for me as a starting blogging…
These tips are great, thank you very much for sharing.
I’m a Travel blogger and i am planning to create a blog and i dont have the idea, But this tips really answered my problem, Very useful post, thanks a lot.
I am thinking of building a travel blog, because I love traveling and have a lot to say and also great tipps for everybody and especially travelling with kids. I would also like to implement some videos and a lot of pictures and some things to do specially for kids, like colouring a page or so.
Therefore all of the tipps mentioned are a lot of help for me! Thanks
What an excellent list of suggestions Nile!
As I was reading your list of suggestions, I was thinking of some creative ways to
apply your exact same approach to my specif target market.
There is simply a ton of creative food for thought in your
extremely well written post!
Thanks! I’ll definitely share it!
Great List, I was once asked by a travel blogger to be a guest blogger and I did not know what I could write on . Thanks for the helpful list.
Your blog is awesome. Thank you so much for giving plenty of useful content.