Posted: 4/8/2024 | April eighth, 2024
TravelCon is again! In 2022, after 5 years (via a pandemic), I ended TravelCon. Nonetheless, my pals at FinCon supplied to run it (thus lowering my workload) so we introduced it again! For those who’re media or PR within the journey trade, that is the very best trade occasion so that you can attend!
TravelCon is a three-day journey media occasion that focuses on serving to you enhance your craft, be taught new enterprise expertise, community along with your friends, and join you with all of the superior manufacturers and tourism boards that attend!
This yr, TravelCon can be Might 15-Seventeenth in Portland, Oregon and can characteristic pre- and post-event journeys; meet-ups; dinner events; and in-depth, actionable talks. The purpose 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 may:
- Enhance your craft within the 4 main areas of journey: video, images, writing, and running a blog
- Study what’s sizzling, what works, and what doesn’t within the trade
- Maintain present on the very best practices in digital journey publishing
- Find out about new services within the trade
- Meet locations and journey manufacturers
- Study from specialists 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 periods this yr are going to concentrate on two issues: going professional and scaling.
“Go Professional” periods will empower part-time creators to go full-time with subjects comparable to:
- Increasing your attain utilizing superior website positioning, advertisements, & electronic mail advertising and marketing.
- Discovering creator instruments and providers to streamline your workflow.
- Diversifying the way you monetize your content material, together with affiliate internet marketing and collaborations.
- Constructing efficient partnerships with CVBs, DMOs, journey boards, journey manufacturers, and native businesses.
“Scale” periods are for full-time creators who’re able to scale their model, attain, content material, and revenue, with subjects comparable to:
- Equipping your model with the proper workforce members, instruments, and providers.
- 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 numerous alternatives to “discover your folks” and do enterprise in a means that feels pure and natural.
- Expo – That includes Journey Boards, Manufacturers, CVBs, DMOs, creator service suppliers, and extra — many with specially-curated gives, 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 folks in meetups tailor-made to your platform or niches. Our purpose 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 targeted on subjects which can be extra area of interest than common. They supply a possibility to attach with different like-minded journey creators and to be taught 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 quite a lot of unbelievable audio system. You may see a full list on the website, however some confirmed audio system are:
- Me!
- Jeff Jenkins, Chubby Diaries
- Raime Iacofano, Raimee’s Journey
- Rand Fishkin, website positioning 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 very best journey present on the market. After all, I’m biased as a result of I began it, however I made this the type of occasion that I’d wish to attend. One which focuses on enterprise, networking, and enhancing your expertise whereas having a very good time doing it.
Tickets are $499 and you’ll purchase them here.
It’s going to be a blast! I hope to see you there!
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