Posted: 4/8/2024 | April eighth, 2024
TravelCon is again! In 2022, after 5 years (via a pandemic), I ended TravelCon. Nevertheless, my mates at FinCon supplied to run it (thus decreasing my workload) so we introduced it again! If you happen to’re media or PR within the journey business, that is the perfect business 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 together with your friends, and join you with all of the superior manufacturers and tourism boards that attend!
This 12 months, TravelCon shall be Might 15-Seventeenth in Portland, Oregon and can function pre- and post-event journeys; meet-ups; dinner events; and in-depth, actionable talks. The aim is to assist journey creators go professional by turning their ardour right into a career after which scale their on-line enterprise.
At TravelCon, you possibly can:
- Enhance your craft within the 4 main areas of journey: video, pictures, writing, and running a blog
- Be taught what’s scorching, what works, and what doesn’t within the business
- Hold present on the perfect practices in digital journey publishing
- Find out about new services and products within the business
- Meet locations and journey manufacturers
- Be taught from specialists outdoors the journey business
- Make connections with different journey lovers
- Have a ton of enjoyable!!!
What are you able to anticipate this 12 months?
TravelCon is the enterprise occasion for journey creators. The TravelCon periods this 12 months are going to concentrate on two issues: going professional and scaling.
“Go Professional” periods will empower part-time creators to go full-time with matters equivalent to:
- Increasing your attain utilizing superior website positioning, advertisements, & electronic mail advertising.
- Discovering creator instruments and companies to streamline your workflow.
- Diversifying the way you monetize your content material, together with internet affiliate marketing and collaborations.
- Constructing efficient partnerships with CVBs, DMOs, journey boards, journey manufacturers, and native companies.
“Scale” periods are for full-time creators who’re able to scale their model, attain, content material, and revenue, with matters equivalent to:
- Equipping your model with the fitting group members, instruments, and companies.
- 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 a number of alternatives to “discover your folks” and do enterprise in a manner that feels pure and natural.
- Expo – That includes Journey Boards, Manufacturers, CVBs, DMOs, creator service suppliers, and extra — many with specially-curated affords, partnerships, and merchandise to debate with attendees. Over 40 manufacturers and DMOs are attending this 12 months!
- 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 aim is to attach you with as many creators as doable!
- Creator Conversations – These are a hybrid between a session and mini masterminds led by creators and centered on matters which are extra area of interest than normal. They supply a chance to attach with different like-minded journey creators and to be taught from one another.
- Night Occasions – Who doesn’t love letting free together with your journey mates? Have enjoyable on the Welcome Reception, Dinner Golf equipment, Late Night time Meetups, and extra.
Audio system
Like in earlier years, we’re going to have quite a lot of unimaginable audio system. You possibly can see a full listing on the web site, 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 & life-style creator
- Kristin and Siya, Hopscotch the Globe
- Rachel Rudwell, Rachel Roams
Come be a part of me for the perfect journey present on the market. In fact, I’m biased as a result of I began it, however I made this the form of occasion that I’d need to attend. One which focuses on enterprise, networking, and bettering your expertise whereas having an excellent time doing it.
Tickets are $499 and you may buy them right here.
It’s going to be a blast! I hope to see you there!
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