Hiya readers! I haven’t written an replace shortly so I believed I’d simply do a publish with some newest information from the weblog.

TravMedia Awards

First off, I’m delighted to report that A Luxurious Journey Weblog has been shortlisted for an additional award. We’ve been fortunate sufficient to be a finalist yearly for the reason that inaugural TravMedia Awards again in 2020, in addition to within the TravMedia sit-UP Awards that preceded them. This yr is not any exception as I’m delighted to announce that A Luxurious Journey Weblog has been shortlisted as a finalist within the Influencer of the 12 months class. The Travmedia Awards ceremony will now be held on Tuesday 5 April at The Londoner, Leicester Sq.. Fingers crossed!

Content material

Secondly, these of you that learn the weblog usually could have seen a couple of modifications. Throughout lockdown, we began work on a collection of recent, Search engine marketing-optimised journey guides with a view to bettering the positioning’s total visibility. This has labored properly with quite a few guides already rating extremely in search outcomes.

But it surely’s a giant mission and we nonetheless have an extended option to go earlier than we attain a complete world protection for all of the locations that we need to function. In case your vacation spot isn’t but coated, otherwise you’d wish to get invovled, please contact us.

You might also have seen that the quantity of normal weblog content material that we’re publishing is “on the up” with January 2022 wanting like it’s going to, when it comes to weblog posts printed, be the busiest month for A Luxurious Journey Weblog since January 2014!

This has been helped partially by quite a few new visitor bloggers becoming a member of the positioning not too long ago, reviving one or two common posts that we used to run on the positioning, and the state of the trade being such that we will perform extra critiques.

Technical modifications

One different factor that occurred throughout lockdown was that we moved to a brand new internet hosting firm. This wasn’t actually deliberate however sadly the small internet hosting firm we have been with simply determined to ‘name it a day’. They have been additionally our level of contact for any technical necessities so, along with discovering a brand new host, we additionally wanted to seek out somebody new to overseee some technical elements of the weblog.

We’ve completed this now and are slowly engaged on revising quite a few options on the positioning. For instance, the relevancy of the ‘associated posts’ that you just see on every weblog was by no means fairly the place I wished it to be. If we had a weblog publish in regards to the English Lake Disrict, and appeared on the associated content material, we might get posts about Plitvice Lakes Nationwide Park (one other ‘Lake District’ I suppose) or posts that have been seemingly not associated in any respect, when in reality we’ve numerous different posts in regards to the English Lake District. I’m happy to report that this has now been sorted and is working much more successfully and doing a greater job at supply helpful and related associated content material. We’ll proceed to work on different comparable points in order that A Luxurious Journey Weblog suppliers readers with a greater total expertise.

Behind the scenes

We’ve been engaged on a couple of areas to make it simpler for luxurious journey companies to collaborate with us. Our on-site contact kind is at all times a superb place to begin for this function – as is the trade channel of our mailing record – however we’ve additionally developed quite a few Google Kinds to raised facilitate sure sorts of collaborations.

For anybody keen on having an expert journey author and consultant of A Luxurious Journey Weblog perform first-hand critiques for locations, DMOs, airways, luxurious motels, resorts, trip leases and different lodging suppliers, cruises, yachts, eating places, sights, excursions, and many others., please submit a request utilizing this Google Kind.

For retailers who want to see bodily merchandise featured on A Luxurious Journey Weblog (suppose attire/clothes, cosmetics, trend equipment, foods and drinks, devices and tech, baggage, images, sports activities gear, sun shades, swimwear, journey equipment, watches, and many others.), they will request protection through this Google Kind.

The longer term

After a bleak couple of years for the journey trade as a complete, we’re very excited for what lies forward for A Luxurious Journey Weblog. I imagine journey goes to bounce again very strongly, significantly for the posh sector – as soon as it’s safely ready to take action – and hopefully it isn’t going to be so lengthy earlier than we return to an trade that extra intently resembles pre-pandemic ranges than it does at the moment. The journey trade has proved its resilience many instances earlier than and this will probably be no exception.

In the meantime, we will proceed to supply content material that we hope is beneficial and gives you with loads of future inspiration for the various journey experiences and adventures that lie forward.