The Poor Traveler Itinerary Blog

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The Poor Traveler Itinerary Blog

Welcome to
The Poor Traveler's
Guide to the World!

The “poor” in The Poor Traveler is not about the lack of money. At least, not just about that. Yes, we were struggling financially when we started the blog, but we meant poor as “unfortunate or unlucky”. As in poor soul or poor thing.

You see, when we started traveling in 2009, we made a lot of poor choices. We made a lot of mistakes. We had absolutely no clue how to plan a trip. We got lost all the time, got scammed all the time, and ended up spending way more than we should.

We created this blog to accomplish two things:

  • document our misadventures, and
  • provide FREE travel tips so others can avoid wasting hard-earned money when they travel

Our goal is to build FREE travel guides, where we can share our experiences and whatever lessons we pick up along the way. This blog is for the poor travelers out there — the newbies, the first-timers, the lost and confused, the shy and socially awkward, the navigationally-challenged, and those who can’t afford to make costly mistakes.

Check out our story!


poor
/po͝or,pôr/
adjective
  • having little or insufficient money or other means of support;
  • unlucky, unfortunate;
  • lacking in skill or ability;

What makes our blog click
is that we are

relatable.

Like most people, we’re casual travelers, not hardcore backpackers. We’re vacation-goers, not long-term nomads. We enjoy solo adventures, but we also love sightseeing with friends and family.

Our primary audience is composed mainly of 21-45 yo. full-time employees who wish to take a break from work. They are budget-conscious, yes, but they are willing to spend hard-earned money on experiences that are worth it.

We’re not in the business of promoting the cheapest ways to travel. But we are on a journey to find the many ways to travel smart.

Success
in numbers

Our 1-MILLION-strong base is one of the largest travel blog communities on Facebook, and it’s still growing fast. Our consistent search- and social-driven traffic has put us among the top travel blogs.

awards

#1 Budget Travel Blog

USA TODAY: 10 BEST

#1 Best Travel Blog in Asia

GO DESTI

#2 Top Travel Blog (Global)

THE EXPEDITIONER (peak position)

No. 1 in USA Today’s list of 10 Best Budget Travel Blogs in the World.
No. 1 in GoDesti’s list of Best Travel Blogs in Asia.
No. 2 in Bob Around the World’s list of Top Budget Travel Blogs in the World based on content, social media, etc.
No. 4 in The Expeditioner’s list of Top Travel Blogs in the World according to unique visits.
No. 4 and No. 5 in Man On the Lam’s list of Top 100 Travel Blog Posts based on social media shares.
No. 6 in ASEAN Up’s list of Top 50 Blogs from the Philippines.
No. 10 in Saga Holidays’ list of Top 10 Travel Blogs for Senior Travelers.
One of TripAdvisor’s Top 20 Budget Travel Bloggers.

In addition, we have been cited by the following organizations and publications:

Our partner website PhilippineBeaches.org,
with 1.4 million likes on Facebook,
was Asia’s biggest travel/leisure page based on 2012 SocialBakers data.

Content
comes first

We strive to make each of our posts informative, entertaining, or both. We do our best to add value to our readers’ user experience and be as useful as we can. We believe our content is why our readers trust our blog and share our articles. We are protective of our content and have always held it sacred.

We have been featured on BBC World‘s The Travel Show, CNN‘s list of Top Travel Bloggers, and TIME, among others.

On Plaques
and on Stage

Here are some of our awards and recognitions:

Winner – Best Travel Blog

E! BLOG AWARDS 2017
NUFFNANG AWARDS 2016
NUFFNANG AWARDS 2018
GODESTI 2015

Winner – Best Budget Travel Blog

USA TODAY

Winner

ON ASSIGNMENT: PARIS
Writing Category, Digital Photographer Magazine

Winner

INSPIRING TOURISM ENTREPRENEUR AWARDS 2023
Go Negosyo (Special Award for Content Creators)

Speaker

WORLD TOURISM FORUM ISTANBUL 2016
TBEX ASIA 2022 (Thailand)
TBEX EUROPE 2023 (Greece)

Co-founder Yosh Dimen has also won a Palanca Award, often regarded as the “Pulitzer Prize of the Philippines” and the most prestigious literary honor in the country, in the Screenplay category.

Dimen has also received 3 Philippine Blog Awards out of nine nominations (for this blog and his personal blog Yoshke.com) and won On Assignment – Paris, the travel writing project by Digital Photographer Magazine and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.

We have been featured on many magazines including TIME, Travel Now, Navigator, and Mabuhay Magazine. See our print portfolio here.

Trivia: The name of this blog was inspired by Charles Dickens’s The Seven Poor Travelers, a short piece that narrates the events at a charity house that provides shelter to broke travelers for a night. On that night, the seventh poor traveler relates a story from his journeys. It is this spirit of storytelling that we wish to capture and share on this blog.

Also featured on:

Other Recognitions:

In good
company

Our content and reach are why we have worked with some of the biggest corporations and industry leaders in Asia:

AirAsia, Traveloka, and Expedia among others.

We’ve Worked With

Advertise with us!

We are open to ex-deals, social media promotions, and other forms of partnerships. For the rate card, please get in touch with
Yoshke Dimen
yoshke@thepoortraveler.net

Learn more about us here

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