12 Travel Blog Success Stories [2023]

Hello! My name is Jessica and I am the Content Creator, Blogger, and Influencer of MyCurlyAdventures which inspires people to travel more through finding exciting adventures close to home!

Through Instagram advertising, sponsorships, and affiliate income I’m able to make a living wage. Plus since I’m traveling so much many of my major expenses have been eliminated such as rent, food, clothing, beauty products, and obviously travel! So with everything I also get for trade that I don’t have to directly pay for, my income would be even higher.

I am Kevin Wilkerson and I publish the lifestyle website PubClub.com. This is primarily a content site with information on travel, nightlife, food and drink, festivals, and sports around the world. I like to say it’s a site for those who like to have a drink in their hand. That is what makes it unique.

The site generates approximately $2,000 a month from advertising and we receive approx. 25k users/month to our website.

Hello, my name is Sean Petersen and I am the founder of Golf Trip Junkie, a trusted source for delivering memorable customized golf vacations to our valued customers.

My business is growing more than I ever expected, with average monthly revenue of $165,000.

I’m Ritesh Raj, the co-founder, and COO of CuddlyNest, an accommodation booking platform for travelers. I have a travel tech background of over 13 years—so I’ve been at it since 2009!

That means focusing on all kinds of travelers, who are looking for all kinds of property types, with all kinds of budgets. Our inventory currently includes over four million properties of all types in 80k+ cities!

Hi! My name is Anthony Do, creator of ANTHONYKDO INC. I run my own business in the creative industry as a filmmaker, photographer, and creative director. I am a nomadic Canadian that was born in Edmonton, Alberta.

Today, I have over two dozen loyal clients that are scattered across six different countries. That number continues to grow as I touch new places on the map. My monthly revenue fluctuates and is volatile, but I have been able to keep it somewhere between $7000-15000/month for a few years.

Hi guys! I’m Yolanda Edwards, the founder of Yolo Journal, which is a travel lifestyle media brand I launched three years ago. I’ve been in the magazine business for 25 years–mostly at Conde Nast with a brief stint at Martha Stewart–and when I lost my job, I decided I wanted to create a magazine concept that I thought was missing in the market. In 2019 I came out with my first issue of Yolo Journal, and now I regularly create a physical printed magazine 3x a year.

My name is Asia Crawford and I am a Motherhood, Life, and Travel blogger that resides in Vancouver, Canada. I am a wife and mother to two sweet little girls aged 4 and 2!

I started with no community, 0 followers on any media page I had and in just two years have grown to 18.5K followers on Instagram, 1.2 MILLION monthly viewers on my Pinterest, 12.5K Pageviews a month on my blog website and have been nominated for 3 blogging awards.

Packs Lights is a solo female travel & lifestyle blog founded by Gabby Beckford in 2020. It features travel tips, study abroad resources, travel grants and scholarship tips for all ages, and photography from around the world.

The blog offers nearly every type of resource for young travelers. The website uses movies and tales to motivate visitors to backpack around their favorite destinations. It also provides travel budgeting ideas, confidence boosters, and travel tricks. The site’s main attractions include travel patterns, ideas, photographs, news, and more.

Gabby is a TEDx speaker, Opportunity Expert, and Gen Z Travel Expert at Packs Light. She dropped her engineering profession at the age of 24 to focus on her adventure blogging. She has explored over 45 countries as a full-time digital nomad since 2021. It turns out to be the finest decision she’s ever made.

While in college, she received a $75,000 scholarship. It enabled her to complete her Mathematics degree debt-free in Dubai, UAE.

Gabby’s passion for travel began early, and she started blogging after her final year in high school. Her first income blogging was from an Amazon affiliate link.

Gabby’s Milestones and Awards

• Lonely Planet’s Best in Travel.
• Emerging Voice Award.
• Wanderful’s Bessie Awards.
• Trailblazer Award.
• Traverse’s 12-Month Achievement Award.
• Finalist for Newsweek’s Future of Travel awards.

She has already been featured in publications such as Good Morning America, CNNTravel, National Geographic, Travel+Leisure, Lonely Planet, ShondaLand, and others for her expertise.

In 2020, she became the co-founder of the Black Travel Alliance and a member of the American Influencer Council in 2022.

Her assistance helped many young travelers by arranging free excursions to Azerbaijan, Egypt, Italy, Costa Rica, and other locations.

Last year, her sponsors of social media posts and blog pieces earned her more than $170,000 in gross cash.

Hi, my name is Shelley — and I’m a travel blogger. I started my first travel blog in April 2020, and by April 2023, I had grown to have four travel blogs and a blog about blogging… and they are all profitable.

From January to April 2023, I averaged $55,688 per month from my blogging business. While I haven’t hit that six-figure month (yet), my highest month-to-date was March 2023, when I made $75,196 (gross) from blogging and teaching.

My name is Raj Mahal, and I am the founder of PlanMoreTrips, an AI travel app that finds the absolute cheapest prices on flights and hotels. Before PlanMoreTrips, I founded TRVL MORE, a travel gear company for backpackers. I bootstrapped TRVL MORE from $0 to $20,000,000 in annual sales, and it is now one the top sellers of travel accessories in the world!

I am obsessed with traveling, and all my previous companies have been in the travel space. I have flown over 2 million miles, lived in 7 countries, and traveled to 65+ countries as a digital nomad.