Expedia selected We Said Go Travel for their “Best Bloggers of 2015” List! I feel honored to have such an incredible and supportive community. 2015 was amazing! And 2016 has begun with a ROAR!
In December 2015, the Diplomat Resort and Spa asked me to do an “Instagram Takeover!” Please see this link for all my photos and videos that were shared on their channel.
The We Said Go Travel Team and I are publishing the Gratitude Travel Writing Contest entries. There will not be a Winter Contest this year. Look for something new this SPRING! Thank you to everyone who participated in all my contests. The winners for all eight contests so far can be found here on the WSGT contest Winners Page. The Gratitude Travel Writing Contest winners will not be announced until all the entries have been published.
Have you always dreamed of Antarctica? That is the top of my personal bucket list! Enter this contest to win a free #TripOfALifetime!
My first article for Yahoo Travel is about Hamburg!
I was interviewed for Yahoo Travel as a Cruise Expert by Sid Lipsey!
I skiied this month with my family in Park City, Utah. I love to ski there and we took our first ride on the brand new Quicksilver Gondola which connects Park City and Canyons Village. The #OneParkCity mountain is now the largest ski resort in the USA! We were treated to fantastic food and I will have articles to share soon.
Thank you for all your support of my website, social media and YouTube videos. Thank you for watching my WSGT YouTube channel! Enjoy movies from Viking River Cruises, Israel, Hamburg, Los Angeles, Bogota, St Kitts, Bermuda, Puerto Rico, Palau, Guam, Hawaii, India as well as Bali and Lombok Indonesia, Southern Thailand, Myanmar (Burma), and Nepal. To find all 410+ Videos: click here for the WSGT YouTube Channel. I am over 1500 followers on Pinterest, and up to 800+ subscribers on YouTube!
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Thank you! Lisa
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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. Look for her memoir in Fall 2023 from Post Hill Press/Simon and Schuster.
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 1.7 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 (1.7 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)
I skiied this month with my family in Park City, Utah. I love to ski there and we took our first ride on the brand new Quicksilver Gondola which connects Park City and Canyons Village. The #OneParkCity mountain is now the largest ski resort in the USA! We were treated to fantastic food and I will have articles to share soon.