Posted: 4/8/2024 | April eighth, 2024

TravelCon is again! In 2022, after 5 years (by way of a pandemic), I ended TravelCon. Nevertheless, my pals at FinCon provided to run it (thus decreasing my workload) so we introduced it again! Should you’re media or PR within the journey trade, that is the perfect trade occasion so that you can attend!

TravelCon is a three-day journey media occasion that focuses on serving to you enhance your craft, study new enterprise abilities, community along with your friends, and join you with all of the superior manufacturers and tourism boards that attend!

This yr, TravelCon will probably be Could 15-Seventeenth in Portland, Oregon and can characteristic pre- and post-event journeys; meet-ups; dinner events; and in-depth, actionable talks. The aim is to assist journey creators go professional by turning their ardour right into a occupation after which scale their on-line enterprise.

At TravelCon, you possibly can:

• Enhance your craft within the 4 main areas of journey: video, images, writing, and running a blog
• Be taught what’s sizzling, what works, and what doesn’t within the trade
• Preserve present on the perfect practices in digital journey publishing
• Study new services within the trade
• Meet locations and journey manufacturers
• Be taught from consultants exterior the journey trade
• Make connections with different journey lovers
• Have a ton of enjoyable!!!

What are you able to anticipate this yr?

TravelCon is the enterprise occasion for journey creators. The TravelCon classes this yr are going to deal with two issues: going professional and scaling.

“Go Professional” classes will empower part-time creators to go full-time with matters resembling:

• Increasing your attain utilizing superior search engine marketing, advertisements, & e mail advertising.
• Discovering creator instruments and companies to streamline your workflow.
• Diversifying the way you monetize your content material, together with affiliate marketing online and collaborations.
• Constructing efficient partnerships with CVBs, DMOs, journey boards, journey manufacturers, and native companies.

“Scale” classes are for full-time creators who’re able to scale their model, attain, content material, and revenue, with matters resembling:

• Equipping your model with the appropriate crew members, instruments, and companies.
• Diversifying your income streams, together with product improvement, programs, or membership communities.
• Sustaining stability to avoiding burnout as a full-time creator and digital nomad.
• Leveraging AI & different rising tech for content material creation & enterprise progress.

Networking Alternatives

Connecting manufacturers and creators is on the core of our occasion. We offer a lot of alternatives to “discover your individuals” and do enterprise in a manner that feels pure and natural.

• Expo – That includes Journey Boards, Manufacturers, CVBs, DMOs, creator service suppliers, and extra — many with specially-curated presents, partnerships, and merchandise to debate with attendees. Over 40 manufacturers and DMOs are attending this yr!
• 1:1 Conferences – Schedule one-on-one conferences with manufacturers, sponsors, and journey boards utilizing our occasion software program. All attendees can take part!
• Meetups – Discover your individuals in meetups tailor-made to your platform or niches. Our aim is to attach you with as many creators as potential!
• Creator Conversations – These are a hybrid between a session and mini masterminds led by creators and centered on matters which might be extra area of interest than normal. They supply a possibility to attach with different like-minded journey creators and to study from one another.
• Night Occasions – Who doesn’t love letting unfastened along with your journey pals? Have enjoyable on the Welcome Reception, Dinner Golf equipment, Late Evening Meetups, and extra.

Audio system

Like in earlier years, we’re going to have a whole lot of unimaginable audio system. You’ll be able to see a full checklist on the web site, however some confirmed audio system are:

• Me!
• Jeff Jenkins, Chubby Diaries
• Raime Iacofano, Raimee’s Journey
• Rand Fishkin, search engine marketing guru
• Preethi Chandrasekhar, The Keen Traveler
• Jessica Serna, My Curly Adventures
• Katherine Fan, Badass freelance author
• Kemoy Martin, Journey & way of life creator
• Kristin and Siya, Hopscotch the Globe
• Rachel Rudwell, Rachel Roams

Come be part of me for the perfect journey present on the market. In fact, I’m biased as a result of I began it, however I made this the sort of occasion that I’d wish to attend. One which focuses on enterprise, networking, and bettering your abilities whereas having a very good time doing it.

Tickets are $499 and you’ll buy them right here.

It’s going to be a blast! I hope to see you there!