TheTravelEditor.com - Making Travel Exciting Again

TheTravelEditor is a travel site which aims to be different from the myriad of other similar sites on the web. The team behind the site wants to bring back the mystique and the marvel to travel that seems to have been lost with the proliferation of bargain airlines and travel blogs. In order to achieve this, TheTravelEditor is exclusive; they don’t do the crowd sourced thing. Instead, they handpick travel writers, film makers and artists to share their travels and add their insights. The content on site is available in a number of handy formats—you can download their audio casts to your iPod for on the road info, or you can print out their comprehensive guides. There are reviews, pocket guides, maps, and even top ten lists. You can pick your favorite articles and save them to create your personal travel guide. Sign up to feeds of your favorite writer, or give it a try yourself and join the team. TheTravelEditor can also be accessed from your mobile.

“At TheTravelEditor.com, we want to bring back the excitement, mystery and discovery to travel. We want your trips to be new, utterly personal and always enriching.

We want the world to be big, again.”

TheTravelEditor aims for class. It’s got a slick, glossy design. It handpicks its authors to offer top quality reviews and writing. Articles cover everything from luxury spas to hidden lakes and cool country houses. This will do well with the high end crowd.

TheTravelEditor really doesn’t offer anything that new. It’s a tough market to be in. The travel site industry is heavily saturated. How will TTE attract new readers and get its numbers up?