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La Carmina (www.lacarmina.com) is an alternative Asian travel, Goth fashion, food & culture blogger, travel TV host (for shows like Taboo, Bizarre Foods, Offline, Oddities) and author of 3 books. Her award-winning travel blog - www.lacarmina.com/blog - has a passionate worldwide following, and she has been profiled in major media (The New Yorker, WWD, Cosmopolitan, Vogue, LA Times). She's a travel journalist for Airbnb Magazine, The Daily Beast, Fodor's, Business Insider, Yahoo, CNN, AOL and Huffington Post, and hosts travel TV shows for Discovery, National Geographic, Food Network, Travel Channel and more. LaCarmina is a TEDx speaker, was profiled by publications like The New York Times, and received a Lowell Thomas travel writing journalism award from SATW Foundation - Society of American Travel Writers.
La Carmina and her professional filmmakers have done many successful travel influencer showcases internationally, including in Jordan, Japan, Prague, Miami, Maldives, Dubai, Hong Kong and Cape Town. They work with tourism boards and companies around the world, and their videos get 500k views. La Carmina recently project managed 200 travel writers on contract and wrote nearly 700 travel articles for Touring Bird, a new travel site by Google Area 120. See more #lacarmina and @lacarmina on social media.
URL - www.lacarmina.com
Instagram - www.instagram.com/lacarmina
Facebook - www.facebook.com/lacarminaofficial
Why did you join the community?
Q&AI'm La Carmina, an Asian-Canadian SATW-award-winning travel journalist (National Geographic, The New York Times, Travel + Leisure, BBC, Time Mag), leading digital creator/blogger (@lacarmina and lacarmina.com) and the author of three books with Simon & Schuster and Penguin Random House. Based in Vancouver, I specialize in stories about alt culture / travel -- and have worked with tourism boards and companies worldwide.
What is your favorite travel destination?
Q&AI can't name one, but loved Easter Island, Egypt, Morocco, and of course Japan (one of my main focuses on my LaCarmina travel blog)
Where do you dream of traveling to?
Q&AIt would be great to visit Antarctica before it collapses. I've been to over 70 countries so far and every continent except this.
What was your first travel job?
Q&AI started my La Carmina blog, and as it grew, I got more chances to travel and work as a brand ambassador, television host, travel writer and digital influencer such as Instagram campaigns.
What do you want to learn more about?
Q&AAlways keen to meet others and keep up to date with the latest tech and trends in tech, travel, tourism.
Three words that describe why we should travel?
Q&AFlexibility of mind.