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Chris Christensen
Travel Podcaster / Blogger, AmateurTraveler.com
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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?

Jordan

Where do you dream of traveling to?

Israel

What was your first travel job?

Director of Engineering for TripAdvisor Flights

Three words that describe why we should travel?

stretch 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.

  • 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

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    Amateur Traveler 2 years ago

  • 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

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    Amateur Traveler 2 years ago

  • Thanks Alastair :-)

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    Amateur Traveler 2 years ago

  • 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