Travel Tips from the Travel Bloggers’ Forum
Travel Bloggers' Forum
It’s good to gather and interact offline with fellow bloggers from time to time. So when I heard that Blog & Soul is organizing a travel bloggers’ forum, I knew I just have to attend.
Pinoy travel bloggers came together early this afternoon and discussed almost everything about travel blogging from starting your own travel blogs to handling sponsored trips.
Members of the panel who shared their expertise and experiences were:
- Ivan Henares of Ivan About Town (http://ivanhenares.com/)
- Ferdz Decena of Ironwulf (http://ironwulf.net/)
- James Betia of Journeying James (http://journeyingjames.com/)
- Edgar Alan Zeta-Yap (http://eazytraveler.blogspot.com/)
Nina Fuentes of JustWandering.org Served as Host while Gael Villanueva of ThePinaySoloBackpacker.com was also a Panelist in Round 2
Here are some insightful travel tips they were able to share:
- Pinoy Travel Bloggers’ role in promoting Philippine Tourism
- Importance of travel photos in a travel blog
- Having non-Philippine-related posts to catch foreign visitors to read about your previous Philippine-related posts.
- Be conscious with the security and political situation of the country you are going to.
- A Traveller’s Cheque can be a good alterntative to ATM cards for backup money abroad.
- Juggling travel blogging with your non-blogging jobs is doable; but having a travel-related non-blogging job can be helpful.
Here are some photos of travel bloggers present in the forum:
James and Mel of GuiltlessGetaways.blogspot.com
(R-L) Eazy Travelerr, Let's Go Sago, Lost Boy Lloyd, __, Pinay Solo Backpacker, Super-Tikoy, Creative Dork, and Journeying James again
Webfeed over UStream
(R-L) Darwin Cayetano of TrackingTreasure.net, Lois Yasay of WeAreSoleSisters.Com., and Calvin Lo of CalvinsHub.com
Forge.codedgraphic.com/lakbayan and JourneyingJames.com (again) 
The Travel Bloggers’ Forum was held at the GLDC Caseroom of the Asian Institute of Management in Makati from 2 to 530pm.
I’d like to end this post on the Travel Bloggers’ Forum with a quote from travel blogger Journeying James:
“Maitim. malagkit,..dugyut,..I travel like the locals. That’s me!”
About the Author
Sago
He is the travel blogger behind of Let's Go Sago.net. Graduating from UP Diliman with a degree in Computer Science, he is also the Managing Director of #DigitalCircles.asia engaging and amplifying social media campaigns for brands. On Mondays, he teaches information technology classes at Grace Christian College. Know more about him at JonelUy.com
thanks for the photos. ambilis ah! xa pala si lakbayan. =) btw,d ako si Gail Villanueva, iba yun. haha Gael lang, d na ako naglalagay ng last name. =)
glad to see you again. happy travels! =)
I just knew him by the name Eugene Villar, the creator of Lakbayan map… now I have an image of him… thanks for sharing!
Cya ba si FlipNomad.com? all this time, akala ko lalaki cya… hehehe!
@Gael – sorry for that, kilala ko rin si Gail, nagkamali po,
@Mervs – corrected by na rin, si Lois of WeAreSoleSisters.com
@Gael- sino ung girl na naka-green? (para may nam din siya sa caption)
Thanks for the photos! Just posted this in our facebook page!
Sago
Girl in green is Izah Morales of http://tripadora.com/
@Lois – thanks!
@Joseph – noted, thanks!
hi Jonel! she’s Izah Morale of Tripadora.
*Morales.
bosing jonel! thanks a lot ha
nice to see yah again and meet fellow bloggers. kelan ka magsasalita sa blog n soul? ako naman makikinig sayo. lalo na sa promoting the blog, saka mga pangpadami ng readers.
Bossing James,
Blog n Soul ang may say jan, not me.
HOpefully magkasama ulit tayo sa travel soon para makapagkwentuhan ulit.
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