Travel Matters

Welcome to Travel Matters, and we're joined by serial 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: TravelingCheesehead.com

Book: '100 Things to Do in Wisconsin Before You Die' – or use your own Amazon affiliate link.

TheTravelingCheesehead on InstaGram.

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 Magazine, GoGetter, etc. Travelure simply means building a lure of travel among its readers.

Follow Ajay on Instagram and on Travelure.in

This episode of Travel Matters was recorded at TBEX Asia in Phuket, Thailand, and hosted by TBEX CEO Rick Calvert and The Radio Vagabond, Palle Bo.

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, and on TikTok as ZeekmanDan.

This episode of Travel Matters was recorded at TBEX Asia in Phuket, Thailand, and hosted by TBEX CEO Rick Calvert and The Radio Vagabond, Palle Bo.

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 travel and tourism to, from and within the Asia Pacific region.

By bringing together our private and public sector members, PATA facilitates meaningful partnerships to enhance the value, quality and sustainable growth of travel and tourism to, from and within the Asia Pacific region.

This episode of Travel Matters was recorded at TBEX Asia in Phuket, Thailand, and hosted by TBEX CEO Rick Calvert and The Radio Vagabond, Palle Bo.

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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 called Travel & Pamper, and everywhere he goes, he visit the local barbershop for a haircut, hair wash, pedicure, facial, foot scrub, massage, or a straight razor hot towel shave. Now that's a different angle to a travel YouTube channel. And he's doing well with 579.000 subscribers and almost a quarter of a billion views.

Ric is an extreme traveler on a quest to travel to all 193 UN countries and he shares his unique experiences, must-see places, and off-the-beaten path locations on his blog, Global Gaz. He's the host of the popular podcast, Counting Countries, where he interviews travelers who also are aiming to visit every country in the world. Also, he founded a new conference called Extraordinary Travel Festival, held for the first time in Yerevan, Armenia in October 2022. Co-host of Travel Matters, Palle Bo, was there and did a lot of interviews with some extraordinary travelers on his own podcast, The Radio Vagabond.

Yosh Dimen, started The Poor Traveler in 2010 with his friend Vins Carlos. The blog is about being smart when traveling, planning, and budgeting. And (as they say on the blog), in most cases, the cheapest is not always the wisest. The truth is, although they were struggling financially when they started, it wasn't the reason for the name. They called it poor to mean "unfortunate or unlucky". As in poor soul, poor choices, you poor thing.

Yosh and Vins are very successful with 855,000 followers on Facebook, 77,000 followers on Instagram, and almost 90,000 subscribers on their YouTube channel. Yosh was on the closing panel at TBEX Asia, and will be a keynote speaker at TBEX Europe 2023 in Greece.

This episode of Travel Matters was recorded at TBEX Asia in Phuket, Thailand, and hosted by TBEX CEO Rick Calvert and The Radio Vagabond, Palle Bo.

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 Asia in Phuket, Thailand, and hosted by TBEX CEO Rick Calvert and The Radio Vagabond, Palle Bo.

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 is a Kiwi. Megan Singleton from Blogger at Large, has been travel writing full time since 2000 and blogging since 2006. She's also also the travel correspondent on Newstalk ZB radio on Sundays and also love to host tours for her readers around New Zealand, her home country.

Megan did a session with the simple title "Extraordinary Creative Collaboration Ideas for Content Creators and DMOs", where she shared how to create and host tours for our readers. The session covered how to plan a tour, how to determine pricing, how to market it and most of all, how to make sure it's fail safe in this post-Covid environment.

This episode of Travel Matters is hosted by TBEX CEO Rick Calvert and The Radio Vagabond, Palle Bo.

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 rest of the world in his YouTube channel, "Becoming Filipino".

And that is happening. Click this link and see an act from a senator, to grant him citizenship.

Even though his channel has more than a million subscribers, and he's able to live of it, he's very modest and very sharing.

Follow Kulas on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and soon also on TikTok. Finally, here is a link to the "Lucky Me! Lomi" TV commercial we're talking about.

This episode of Travel Matters was recorded at TBEX Asia in Phuket, Thailand, and hosted by TBEX CEO Rick Calvert and The Radio Vagabond, Palle Bo.

Happy New Year!

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. The Naked Traveler series and a blogger since 2005. She's had such an interesting life that her life story was turned into two movies. Not many of us can say that.

You can also hear about Rick chasing his new Alaska dog in the rain and about him being afraid of being replaced on the podcast.

Follow Trinity on Instagram and Facebook.

This episode of Travel Matters was recorded at TBEX Asia in Phuket, Thailand, and hosted by TBEX CEO Rick Calvert and The Radio Vagabond, Palle Bo.

Happy Christmas!