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Explore 17 000+ Verified Members and find travel professionals, creators, and startups from all around the world.About me
Chris is the creator of AmateurTraveler.com. Amateur Traveler is a popular online travel podcast and blog that focuses primarily on travel destinations. The podcast, which is 20+ years old, was downloaded over 1.78 million times in 2024.
Chris also owns Hotel-Scoop.com, where his team of professional travel writers reviews hotels and resorts.
Chris is in the Podcasting Hall of Fame and has won a Travel Creator Award, a Lowell Thomas Award, 5 NATJA awards, and a SMITTY Award from Travel+Leisure as the "best independent travel journalist."
What is your favorite travel destination?
Q&AJordan
Where do you dream of traveling to?
Q&AIsrael
What was your first travel job?
Q&ADirector of Engineering for TripAdvisor Flights
Three words that describe why we should travel?
Q&Astretch your brain
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Looks like I will miss this meetup. I will be in the city from the 17-24 of Sept.
New York City Travel Massive 2 years ago
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Amateur Traveler has been used by the Canadian and German school systems, and a few Universities like Oxford as part of their English courses. Also if you want a job with the Thailand Foreign Ministry you will need to listen to two episodes and you will... show more
Amateur Traveler 3 years ago
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Good question. Organized is not that hard, just set your categories and stick with them. up-to-date is a constant struggle. For blog posts you can update them, concentrating on the blogs that get the most traffic. For podcasts, you need to refresh them ... show more
Amateur Traveler 3 years ago
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Thanks Alastair :-)
Amateur Traveler 3 years ago
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What he said. :-) Covid set the destinations back a couple of years, as some of the people who did know what they wanted to do with bloggers got laid off. It's one of the reasons I was impressed that the hotels I talked to in Phuket seemed to have a ... show more
Is TBEX only for established bloggers? 3 years ago
