Travel Matters

In this one, we meet another experienced travel blogger and entrepreneur, Yeison, from the Costa Rica travel blog, Mytanfeet.  The keynote speaker at this TBEX, Yeison (pronounced like Jason), is Costa Rican, born and raised. He started Mytanfeet with his wife Samantha, who moved to Costa Rica in 2012 from the United States and ever since then.  Mytanfeet is a blog with local tips, detailed guides...

Welcome to Travel Matters, recorded at TBEX Europe 2023 in Kalamata, Greece. In this one we have a conversation with the amazing couple, Mike and Anne Howard from HoneyTrek.com . They're two Americans that realized life is short; the world is big, and the value of travel too great to wait another day. So , when it came time for their honeymoon, they decided to sell their stuff and embark on a trip...

Welcome to Travel Matters recorded live on tape at TBEX Europe 2023 in Kalamata, Greece. In this one, we have a conversation with one of the speakers, Ed u Giansante – a Brazilian who lives in Dublin. He' s the Founder and Content Creator at E-Dublin – a brand that has reached more than 50 million YouTube views and reaches 1 million accounts every month. For more than ten years, Ed u has demonstra...

Welcome to Travel Matters recorded live on tape at TBEX Europe 2023 in Kalamata, Greece. In this one we have a conversation with one of the speakers, Itai Marshall. He's a Social Media strategist from Israel who made the leap from YouTube to TikTok, where he has now amassed more than 200,000 followers and 12 million likes with his high-energy and snappy video style. Itai is also a video marketing...

Welcome to Travel Matters, and the first of many episodes from TBEX Europe 2023 in Kalamata, Greece. In this one – recorded today, two days before the conference, we talk to conference director Shane Dallas about what to expect from this conference.

Welcome to Travel Matters, and we're joined by s erial entrepreneur and travel-junkie Dannelle Gay, AKA the Traveling Cheesehead . She loves to talk about Travel, Partnerships with Destinations, and teach bloggers how to make money. Her latest book ' 100 Things to Do in Wisconsin Before You Die ' just came out and she is more than delighted that TBEX is coming to her home state! LINKS: Blog: Trave...

Welcome to Travel Matters, and we're joined by Pro Travel Photographer , Ajay Sood from Travelure . 'Travelure' started on wordpress.com in 2007, and switched to this self-hosted site in May 2015. It began as an aggregation of Ajay Sood's articles published in travel, photography, and in-flight publications like Condé Nast Traveller, Huffington Post, JetWings, Travel3Sixty°, Smart Photography, Taj...

Welcome to Travel Matters, and we're joined by four awesome content creators: Nathan Sado, Sarah Hughes, Dave Brett, and Dan Zeek. Sarah and Nathan have several sites, but their main site is Live Dream Discover . Adventure traveler Dave Brett is better known as Travel Dave UK . You can follow Dan Zeek on YouTube as Zeekman Eats and Zeekman Travels , on Instagram as Zeekman73 and Zeekman Travels ,...

Welcome to Travel Matters and the two interesting conversations with three unique content creators. This one was also recorded at TBEX Asia in Phuket, Thailand. In this episode, we're joined by Paul Pruangkarn and Matt Gibson from Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA). Founded in 1951, PATA is a not-for-profit membership-based association that acts as a catalyst for the responsible development of...

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Welcome to Travel Matters, and the two interesting conversations with three unique content creators. This one was also recorded at TBEX Asia in Phuket, Thailand. First you can meet two American Thailand experts. Jason does a lot of content from Thailand on his YouTube channel, and Ric has his base in Bangkok. We're also joined by Filipino, travel blogger, Yosh Dimen. Jason's YouTube channel is cal...

Welcome to Travel Matters, and the two interesting conversations with two unique content creators. This one was also recorded at TBEX Asia in Phuket, Thailand. Meet Scott Gurian from Far From Home Podcast and Maria Haase from San Diego Explorer . Scott mentioned his podcast where he met a Medicine Man in Peru and went to an ayahuasca ceremony. This episode of Travel Matters was recorded at TBEX As...

Welcome to Travel Matters, and another episode recorded at TBEX Asia in Phuket, Thailand. Meet Australian Sharon Gourlay  from DigitalNomadWannaBe . Sharon is an SEO expert and runs 15-20 sites, does training, and hosts the weekly podcast " Make Money Blogging with Digital Nomad Wannabe ". Here she teaches you how to turn your blog into a business with sustainable passive income. Our second guest...

Welcome to Travel Matters and the first episode of 2023. This one was also recorded at TBEX Asia in Phuket, Thailand. Meet Kyle Jennermann, a Canadian national who found himself falling in love with the Philippines and its people. He calls himself "Kulas", a nickname he was given several years ago by one of the people he met on one of his trips there. He decided to introduce the Philippines to the...

Welcome to the Christmas episode of Travel Matters, also recorded at TBEX Asia in Phuket, Thailand. In this one Tomiko is sitting in for Rick in the interview with Indonesian travel blogger and author Trinity Traveler aka "The Naked Traveler". Trinity is Indonesia's leading travel writer, author of 15 best-selling books incl . T he N aked T raveler series and a blogger since 2005. She's had such a...

Time to kick off the episodes recorded at TBEX Asia in Phuket, Thailand. And we start with the men of the hour, Conference Directors Shane Dallas and Anton Diaz. Hear about the biggest TBEX of the year and what was so unique about it. You can also hear a bit about some of the upcoming guests. This episode of Travel Matters was recorded at TBEX Asia in Phuket, Thailand, and hosted by TBEX CEO Rick...

In this episode, Rick speaks with travel blogger and Airbnb expert Toby Doré about connecting travel influencers to short-term rental hosts. His blog is The Cajun Traveler , and he's on Instagram as @TheCajunTraveler . We also meet Nicole from Explore Houma , Louisiana. Just 55 miles from New Orleans, Louisiana's Bayou Country contains over 2500 sq. miles of mysterious swamps and vast wetlands.  T...

In this episode, Rick speaks with Frederic Aouad from Stay22 and Allie Eggert Visit Billings . If you're interested in working with Visit Billings at alyson@visitbillings.com . This episode of Travel Matters was recorded at TBEX Lafayette and hosted by TBEX CEO Rick Calvert.

In this episode, Rick speaks with Shelia Scarborough from Tourism Currents and Dianne McNamara from Go RVing . If you're a content creator and would like to work with Go RVing, you can reach out to christy@fireituppr.com This episode of Travel Matters was recorded at TBEX Lafayette and hosted by TBEX CEO Rick Calvert and The Radio Vagabond , Palle Bo.

In this episode, Rick speaks with Vivian TrovaTrip and Susan Melton from Janesville, Wisconsin . This episode of Travel Matters was recorded at TBEX Lafayette and hosted by TBEX CEO Rick Calvert and The Radio Vagabond , Palle Bo.

In this episode, Rick speaks with Sven and Rene from Tripello . Tripello does Travel in a new and different way, it's a platform that can get you up to 60% discount hotel rooms. Also, they have an affiliate program that might interest you. He also has an interesting conversation with the closing keynote speaker, Gerald Gruenig. He's a local TV host in Lafayette but now also very active on social m...

In this episode, Rick speaks with his homeboy San Diego Travel Host Jay Jay Maniquis from the YouTube channel, Jaycation , and TBEX Conference Director for North America Tim Leffel. Tim is a veteran  travel writer  who has dispatched articles from five continents. He is an author of multiple books, editor of Perceptive Travel, and a long time travel  blogger . His company,  Al Centro Media , produ...

In this first episode from TBEX North America in Lafayette, 2022, Rick speaks with Radio host and culinary personality Jay Ducote and Ines Boutamagia from SafetyWing . Not only does SafetyWing have Nomad Insurance, but they also plan to build a country on the internet, calling it Plumania . This episode of Travel Matters is hosted by TBEX CEO Rick Calvert and The Radio Vagabond , Palle Bo.

A vagabond is a person who wanders from place to place without a fixed home. Our guest today is the bestselling author of the widely celebrated Vagabonding. Now, Rolf Potts has written a new book called " The Vagabond's Way " This book is a bit different, containing 366 Meditations on Wanderlust, Discovery, and the Art of Travel. We're super excited to have him on the show today. This episode of T...

In this episode, we will tell you when and where the next TBEX Europe is taking place. Also, a few more details about TBEX North America in Lafayette and TBEX Asia in Phuket, Thailand . This episode of Travel Matters is hosted by TBEX CEO Rick Calvert and The Radio Vagabond , Palle Bo.