WELCOME TO THE 2007 TRAVVIES
As announced last week, we’re kicking off the very first Travvies — the travel blog awards.
Why do this? There are a number of great blogs out there devoted to travel. When I tell people that I write a travel blog, people often immediately follow up with, “You mean, you write about your trips?” Not exactly. There’s a misconception that travel blogs are all travel diaries. Some of these might be terrific, but the scope of the travel blogosphere is much larger. More and more, these blogs are influencing the way consumers, companies, and journalists get information. The Travvies try to take this breadth into account.
Any travel blog that existed in 2006 and that generated at least 52 posts in 2006 is open for consideration. The primary focus of the blogs should be on some aspect of travel. They should be blogs about travel, not blogs about a bunch of stuff with only an occasional mention of travel. While quality travel blogs are written in many languages, we will unfortunately only consider English-language blogs for the Travvies.
Descriptions of each category are in the posts below. You will also be able to navigate to the category of your choice via permalinks in the sidebar.
General rules and procedures are outlined here. Nominations are open for one week, and will close at 8am, Chicago time, Monday, February 12.
Thanks in advance to our panel of judges, who will cull the list of nominations to select the finalists. The names of the judges are being kept under wraps for now, so nominees aren’t able to lobby them or otherwise curry favor. When finalists are announced, the judges will step out from behind their curtain.
Thanks also to the many people who offered feedback, suggestions, and assistance in putting this together. Much appreciated.
Any questions or comments, don’t hesitate to leave a comment or use the contact link.
REMEMBER, YOU CAN NOMINATE UP TO THREE BLOGS IN EACH CATEGORY, AND YES, YOU CAN NOMINATE THE SAME BLOG IN MULTIPLE CATEGORIES.
This should be fun. Good luck to all bloggers!
Click below to go straight to any nomination category.
- Best Travel Blog
- Best Destination Blog
- Best Informative/Practical Travel Blog
- Best Group-Written Travel Blog
- Best Single-Author Travel Blog
- Best Photography on a Travel Blog
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February 5th, 2007 at 5:54 pm
[...] I wouldn’t want anyone construing this as blatantly begging for a nomination, but if you should feel so inclined, you can get to the nomination form to nominate Flyaway Cafe by clicking here. [...]
February 5th, 2007 at 5:57 pm
[...] If The Seattle Traveler is one of your favorite travel blogs, you can nominate it by going here. [...]
February 6th, 2007 at 4:30 am
WOW!! Very impressing. I am just starting to refurnish my new blog. Would have been fun..
This vote is going to be a tough one!
Big ups to owning a travel blog, Im joining you guys soon..
February 6th, 2007 at 7:14 am
[...] Mark at Upgrade: Travel Better has opened nominations for the Travvies 2007. I’ll have to think about my nominations. imAS is a new blog, but I hope to be ready next year! [...]
February 6th, 2007 at 4:12 pm
[...] The good folks at Upgrade: Travel Better are sponsoring the first travel blog awards. The categories are: [...]
February 6th, 2007 at 5:41 pm
[...] Mark Ashley of Upgrade Travel Better has opened the nomination for the very first Travvies — the travel blog awards. [...]
February 6th, 2007 at 5:47 pm
[...] Mark Ashley of Upgrade Travel Better has opened the nomination for the very first Travvies — the travel blog awards. [...]
February 6th, 2007 at 9:28 pm
Shameless Self Promotion: I would L-O-V-E a nomination for myself or any of the BootsnAll crew, including the TEFL, Travel Gear, Australia, Bali, Paris, Eco Travel, etc. All FANTASTIC resources and LOADS of fun!
February 7th, 2007 at 3:40 am
[...] The nominations are open for Travvies, the first travel blog awards. [...]
February 7th, 2007 at 11:37 am
[...] It appears that Travel Rants has been nominated for The Travvies travel blog Awards which is hosted on the Upgrade: Travel Better blog. Thanks to the mysterious Sarah who nominated Travel Rants within the ‘Best Travel Blog’ category. [...]
February 7th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
Nice idea.
See our blog about travelling to Europe on a budget at
http://www.callingeurope.blogspot.com
February 7th, 2007 at 3:15 pm
Folks, please don’t post nominations in this thread — please post them under the appropriate categories. Judges won’t be able to consider blogs if they’re not in a category. Thanks!
February 8th, 2007 at 2:03 am
Good idea.
Unfortunatly, I write a french Travel blog about Travel 2.0, hotel & tourism industry.
I have some great english CEO interviews about Travel 2.0 web site
Next time, put a foreign category
we have some great travel blogs out there
see http://www.lesexplorers.com
February 8th, 2007 at 8:13 am
Claude, I’m sure there are plenty of great travel blogs out there that aren’t in English. But until translation software is better, or until blogs come with subtitles
, we’re stuck with an English-only policy (note: not US-only) here at the Travvies… Sorry.
February 8th, 2007 at 9:08 am
[...] In fact, I’m surprised it didn’t happen sooner. Mark Ashley over at Upgrade: Travel Better has finally decided to step up and start the very first travel blog awards: The Travvies. [...]
February 10th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
[...] The Travvies are here. Go nominate your favorite blog about traveling and hurry up, okay? [...]
February 24th, 2007 at 8:35 am
[...] This site was a nominee for the “Best Travel Blog” category (originally nominated on Upgrade Travel Better’s official announcement). As the overall winner, this award will go to a blog whose travel-related writings have been consistently interesting, entertaining, useful, well-written, or otherwise worth spending time reading. [...]
February 26th, 2007 at 7:23 am
My blog is not worth reading.
Thank you all for writing things for me to read.
March 3rd, 2007 at 11:13 am
Interesting site, interesting initiative!
well done!
March 6th, 2007 at 12:34 pm
[...] You all know what time of the year it is, right? It’s Travvy time! Wait – you didn’t know? Well, I guess since this is its first year in existence, I’ll forgive you just this once. [...]
March 8th, 2007 at 1:07 am
[...] You all know what time of the year it is, right? It’s Travvy time! Wait – you didn’t know? Well, I guess since this is its first year in existence, I’ll forgive you just this once. [...]
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