Over the past year, the global travel industry has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, with widespread travel restrictions and a decrease in consumer demand leading to a significant drop in tourism. This has also had a major impact on the world of travel blogging, with many bloggers finding it difficult to continue their travels and document their experiences for their followers.
Before the pandemic, travel blogging was a popular and lucrative activity for many people. Bloggers would travel to different destinations, document their experiences through writing, photography, and video, and share their content on social media and their own websites. Some bloggers even turned their passion for travel into a full-time career, working with travel brands and creating sponsored content.
However, with the onset of the pandemic and the resulting travel restrictions, many bloggers found themselves unable to continue their travels as they had before. Many were forced to cancel their plans...
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Hey Kaushal, thanks for sharing your app, and well done creating this. I explored the app and really enjoyed discovering some new travel content creators I hadn't seen before.
How often are you updating the data, and what criteria are you applying for content that you're listing?
Thanks a bunch, Ian! Glad you found it useful.
Currently manually sorting, cleaning and updating data weekly.
Curating content based on authenticity, quality and uniqueness.
Trying to keep it as diverse as possible with regional content and language based search, for example.
Plus, anyone can submit their own content or their favorite creators' content which I'm currently manually approving after basic checks.
Looks cool! I love the interactive website as well, which shows you how the app looks like.
I have plenty of content for Bulgaria from my blog so I may submit a few articles later 🙌
@Kaushal, when I try to submit content, in the Passport holder section it only gives 3 options (India, Pakistan, USA) - is that intentional. Is the app open for content creators from other regions?
oh absolutely! I just started populating the database with creators from these countries first. will add in the rest as well. Just added Bulgaria and Russia for now :)
Awesome! Just added my posts. :)
Hey Kaushal. Enjoyed poking around in the app today. Nice interface and easy to use. Do you plan to index the blogs/bloggers according to certain characteristics to give the option to filter in order to facilitate relevant search?
thank you Manny! :) glad you are enjoying the app. Currently, filters allow you to sort content by language, media type, passport ownership and destination country. I keep trying to improve things based on feedback and ideas, so if you feel there should be some more parameters, I'd love to explore that as well!
I've tried to submit my blog details online via my PC. I am a UK passport holder but there is no option for the UK. I cannot submit without selecting one of the limited 6 countries it offers as options. Please advise