Travel Goals Podcast

On this episode, we take a deep dive with travel experts on how travel might change in 2021?

We talk about pent-up travel demand, travel trends like mindful travel and responsible travel, how the travel industry can adapt to a post-pandemic world, innovative travel business start-ups and how travel media can keep pace with rapid changes in 2021?

Travel experts including Paul Charles, Lottie Gross, Lola Akinmade Åkerström and Karin Sheppard give their insights and analysis on 2021 travel trends.

On this episode, we're talking about how women's travel network Wanderful, empowers female travellers around the world.

Wanderful is an international, identity verified home-sharing network for women who travel. Their mission is to empower women to travel the world by cultivating a live network of other women who have been there.

Their many members meet up with travellers for coffee, greet them at the airport, and, of course, host them in their homes for conscious and inspired cultural exchange and friendship building.

On this special episode, we chat to with 3 women from the Wanderful community including Beth Santos, founder and CEO of Wanderful, Kristen Mankosa - Wanderful London Chapter Director and Sofia Martin - Wanderful Chicago Chapter Director, to find out more about how Wanderful leverages the powers of sisterhood and community to help women travel the world.

We also chat about how the international sisterhood of women helps each other through the network. This includes offering their homes to female travellers, meeting others who come to town or attending chapter events in cities around the world. We also discuss why you need to join Wanderful and the steps you need to take to become a member of this amazing community.

Do you want to connect with nature and have more adventure when you travel and close to home? On this episode, we discuss how to add nature and outdoor experiences to your travels with travel writer and outdoor lover, Linda Ballou. Discover how nature, adventure and getting outdoors can enhance your travels. Also, learn how to inject some local, outdoor living into your life, even when you're at home

Linda is a California based travel writer and published author who loves the outdoors. When Linda isn't busy river rafting, hiking or horseback riding she is writing about her exciting experiences. Her articles regularly appear in Go World, Real Travel Adventures and in her Boomer Column on NABBW.com.

On this episode, Linda discusses how you can incorporate nature and outdoor experiences into your travels and how to have micro adventures close to home.

We also chat about her favourite journeys and about her published works including her two novels and her latest offering Get Great Trips for Free, that provides a road map for travel writer wannabes.

Want to get a glimpse into life as a travel TV presenter? On this episode, presenter Alex Outhwaite chats with me about life as a globetrotting, travel TV presenter. We discuss the exciting destinations she's visited, the challenges of presenting on location, how travel filming can't be scripted and how she has built up her successful YouTube travel channel.

Alex's travel shows are broadcast in 30 countries worldwide as well as on Amazon Prime & a number of airline's in-flight entertainment.

Her show 'Off The Grid' focuses on lesser-visited destinations such as Kashmir, North East India and Uzbekistan and was nominated for 'Travel Show of the Year' at the Indian Television Awards.

She has also presented food & travel show 'Quest' and the popular multi presenter show 'Backpack'.

Alex has built up a loyal following on her social media platforms including 145,000 subscribers on YouTube where she has on three occasions been nominated for 'Travel Content Creator of the Year.'

She also has a further 200,000 between Facebook & Instagram where she shares content from her travels and backpacking tours to destinations such as Pakistan & El Salvador.

Halloween towns, haunted hotels and spooky castles are a huge draw for visitors seeking out chilling experiences, haunted happenings and family festivities.

On this special Halloween episode, I speak with a number of travel industry experts about Halloween destinations you need to visit, why Halloween tourism is big business and also the origins of Halloween itself.

Due to the coronavirus restrictions in 2020, many cities like Salem, who normally generate a lot of income through Halloween events are sadly having to cancel the festivities this year.

They aren't the only destination that's cancelling their Halloween celebrations with reports of destinations, theme parks and attractions across the world cancelling Halloween parades, events and shows.

Despite the frustration of cancelled events, destinations are working hard to ensure that future events take place and to ensure the growth of Halloween tourism.

Find out what spooky destinations you need to visit in the future!

A casual scroll through Instagram will have you believing that anyone can ditch their 9-5 job and go and find inner peace on a Thai island. But is it really that easy?

On this episode, we talk about all the things you need to consider before you hand your notice in and book that one-way flight.

You'll need to think about your finances, how you will explain an employment gap and what your real motivation is for leaving your job?

In this frank and realistic episode, we take a deep dive into what stops people from swapping employment for a life on the road.

Planning Solo female travel in Mexico and not sure if it's safe? You need to get the inside scoop on travelling in Mexico from Shelley Marmor from 'Travel Mexico Solo'.

On this episode, Shelley talks about her experiences of travelling and living in Mexico, why Mexico isn't as scary as you might think and how she empowers women to take the plunge and solo travel.

Shelley is a former Miami travel magazine editor, who ditched the office for the world! Well, that's the short & sweet & neat version. The real version is a little more imperfect, she actually became a solo traveller by accident. Like most unplanned things, though, it empowered her in ways she could never have imagined.

Now, she has a blog, Travel Mexico Solo, and a podcast, Dream To Destination, to help other women transcend their fears and to travel solo.

In this episode, Shelley gives practical tips and advice on how to travel and live in Mexico, as well as providing travel resources and some encouragement. Start planning your solo trip to Mexico now!

On this episode, we talk about how to have a positive mindset when travelling, with Samantha Wragg from Coco Travels.

Sam discusses some of her travel disasters and how she stays positive when things go wrong on the road. We chat about positive mindsets, problem-solving and how to deal with travel frustrations.

Sam is a digital marketer who explores the world one adventure at a time including staycations, European city breaks and long-haul trips.

She is a huge advocate for UK travel and the great outdoors, you'll often find Sam hiking near her home in the Peak District with her King Charles Spaniel, Alfie.

Wonder what travel was like back in the 1960s? We talk about Peru and the Peace Corps in the 1960s with author and traveller Evelyn LaTorre.

Between Inca Walls: A Peace Corps Memoir, is a beautiful tale that documents Evelyn's time with the Peace Corps in Peru at a time when women travelling to far-flung destinations was nowhere near as common as it is today.

In this colourful memoir, Evelyn learns to appreciate each culture she encounters. An early sheltered life in rural Montana, a move to California at sixteen, and two years in the Peace Corps in Peru where she meets her now-husband. It's certainly a vivid and entertaining read for travel lovers.

On this Episode, Evelyn talks about her travels across 100 countries, reminisces about her time in Peru and discusses how travel has changed now.

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On this episode, we're talking about breaking into travel writing with Steph Dyson and Lottie Gross from the Talking Travel Writing newsletter.

This super helpful demystifies the travel media and is full of help and advice for seasoned pros and aspiring travel writers.

On this show, Lottie and Steph give the inside scoop on breaking into travel writing. We talk about everything from press trips, ethics and life on the road as a travel writer.

Learn how you can break into the travel writing game with expert, tips, insight and advice from these two top travel writers.

Steph is a bilingual freelance travel writer, guidebook author and blogger originally from the UK, who now splits her time between her home country and South America.

Since 2014, she's spent her time travelling across South America, authoring guidebooks for Moon, Rough Guides and DK Eyewitness along the way.

Lottie started her career as a staffer at Rough Guides, working as a web editor and shaping their digital content.

She later launched loveEXPLORING.com for a small publisher in East London and is now a freelance journalist with bylines in The Telegraph, Nat Geo Traveller, AFAR, Tripsavvy, Lonely Planet and many more.