Once upon a time, travelers were pretty much on their own in regard to booking travel and learning through personal experience whether their destination or services of choice were worth time and money invested. Trip reviews were either by paid (and sometimes influenced) media professionals or your neighbor's boring photo slide show on their living room wall.
Then came the World Wide Web and travel blogging. Often humorous, sometimes sad, generally informative, and always opinionated, travel blogs have become a major facet of both entertainment and the travel industry, and they offer a personal, firsthand glimpse into what one can expect from travel, before even packing a suitcase.
There are five travel blogs that have been awarded prestigious awards for their excellence and quality by some of the most renowned travel blog awarding organizations:
Tripbase, Lonely Planet, the Blogger's Choice Awards, Chapeau Awards, and the Weblogs.
They are:
Budget Travel Category (Tripbase) - vagablogging.net
Best Consumer Travel (Lonely Planet) -blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/intelligenttravel
Best Travel Blog (Blogger's Choice) - cooltribes.blogspot.com
Travel and Leisure (Chapeau) - travelblog.viator.com
Travel (Weblog Bloggies) - camelsandchocolate.com.
Discount Deals - reservevacations.com/articles/
As one of the most popular and entertaining subject matters for writers and readers alike, travelogues and reviews abound in blog form on the Internet. These glimpses into the experiences of customers have even provided a much needed system of checks and balances for quality control of travel providers. The shear number of travel blogs to read is endless and can be overwhelming. But, consider these five and you will be well on your way to armchair navigating amongst the best virtual travel writers in Cyberspace.
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