Travel Classics which hosts “The World’s Most Exclusive Conferences for Professional Travel Writers and Editors” picked their MUST FOLLOW Travel blogs on Twitter in the 2017 Holiday Season:
Travel Classics 2017 in Tucson, Arizona
Travel Classics 12 Days of Travel Blogs: Click on the date to see the original tweet
Each day for the next 12 days we’re highlighting some MUST FOLLOW travel blogs. Let’s kick it off with @Jennyadams_22’shttp://buddhadrinksfanta.com#12DaysofTravelBlogs
Gina DeCaprio Vercesi @KidsUnplugged is a NY-based adventurer, storyteller, and nature girl. Follow her work at http://www.ginavercesi.com#12DaysofTravelBlogs
Continuing with our list of MUST FOLLOW travel blogs…Rachel Walker @racheljowalker is a writer, editor, and casual badass from Boulder who really brings it with her work. https://muckrack.com/rachel-walker-8 #12DaysofTravelBlogs
From swimming with manatees in Florida to searching for polar bears in Canada, @drebmann is up for any adventure. Check out her work at http://www.danarebmann.com#12DaysofTravelBlogs
Before visiting Salt Lake City @VisitSaltLake, you might want to check out Jeremy Pugh’s @VeryDynamite work at http://verydynamite.com#12DaysofTravelBlogs
Terri Marshall @TerriMarshall60 is a globetrotting grandmom #TMOM @travelingmoms who focuses on multi-generational travel http://trippingwithterri.com#12DaysofTravelBlogs
Thank you to Maren Rudolph for organizing Travel Classics and Ruth Moran for an incredible Ireland conference!
Rounding out our list of MUST FOLLOW travel blogs is freelance journalist @Lbleiberg who brings “passion, polish, and professionalism” to his work. https://www.larrybleiberg.com#12DaysofTravelBlogs
Thank you to all the marvelous journalists and editors who make Travel Classics worthwhile!
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Lisa Ellen Niver is an award-winning travel expert who has explored 102 countries and six continents. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, she worked on cruise ships for seven years and backpacked for three years in Asia. She is the founder of the website WeSaidGoTravel which is read in 235 countries and was named #3 on Rise Global’s top 1,000 Travel Blogs. Niver is represented by Chip MacGregor of MacGregor Literary, Inc.
With more than 150,000 followers across social media, she has hosted Facebook Live for USA Today 10best, is verified on Twitter and listed on IMDb, and is the Social Media Manager for the Los Angeles Press Club.
You can find Lisa Niver talking travel on broadcast television at KTLA TV Los Angeles, Satellite Media Tours, The Jet Set TV and Orbitz travel webisodes as well as her YouTube channel, where her WeSaidGoTravel videos have over 1.6 million views. After three months on TikTok, Instagram Reels, Facebook Reels and YouTube Shorts, she had over 500,000 (1/2 million) views.
As a journalist, Niver has interviewed Deepak Chopra, Olympic medalists, and numerous bestselling authors and been invited to both the Oscars and the United Nations. She has been a judge for the Gracie Awards for the Alliance of Women in Media, and has run 15 travel competitions on her website, publishing over 2,500 writers and photographers from 75 countries.
For her print and digital stories as well as her television segments, she has been awarded three Southern California Journalism Awards and two National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards and been a finalist twenty times.
Niver has published more than 2000 articles, in more than three dozen magazines and journals
including National Geographic, Wired, Teen Vogue, HuffPost Personal, POPSUGAR, Ms. Magazine, Luxury Magazine, Smithsonian, Sierra Club, Saturday Evening Post, AARP, AAA Explorer Magazine, American Airways, Delta Sky, enRoute (Air Canada), Hemispheres, Jewish Journal, Myanmar Times, BuzzFeed, Robb Report, Scuba Diver Life, Ski Utah, Trivago, Undomesticated, USA Today, TODAY, Wharton Magazine, and Yahoo.
Awards
National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards
2021 Winner: Book Critic: Ms. Magazine “Untamed: Brave Means Living From the Inside Out”
2019 Winner: Soft News Feature for Film/TV: KTLA TV “Oscars Countdown to Gold with Lisa Niver”
2019 Finalist for: Soft News, Business/Music/Tech/Art
Southern California Journalism Awards
2022 Finalist: Book Criticism
2021 Winner: Technology Reporting
2021 Finalist: Book Criticism
2020 Winner: Print Magazine Feature: Hemispheres Magazine, “Painter by the Numbers, Rembrandt”
2020 Finalist: Online Journalist of the Year, Activism Journalism, Educational Reporting, Broadcast Lifestyle Feature
2019 Finalist: Broadcast Television Lifestyle Segment for “Ogden Ski Getaway”
2018 Finalist: Science/Technology Reporting, Travel Reporting, Personality Profile
2017 Winner: Print Column “A Journey to Freedom over Three Passovers”
Social Media Presence
YouTube Channel: We Said Go Travel (1.6 million views)
Short form video:TikTok, Instagram Reels, Facebook Reels, YouTube Shorts
Twitter: lisaniver (90,000 followers)
Instagram: lisaniver (24,000 followers)
Pinterest: We Said Go Travel (20,000 followers and over 70,000 monthly views)
Facebook: lisa.niver (5,000 followers); We Said Go Travel (3,000 followers)
LinkedIn: lisaellenniver (9000 contacts)
