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Travel Photographer of the Year Announced
There’s no shortage of amazing travel photos–amateur and professional–being shot around the world, especially with the increasing n [...]
Camels, Unicycles, Kayaks: Enter Wend’s Alternative Transportation Essay Contest!
Our friends over at Wend Magazine are putting on a fun new writing competition: the Traveling by Alternative Transportation Essay Contest. Got a stor [...]
Aspiring Travel Writer Alert: Win a Trip to India!
Our friends over at World Nomads just announced the opening of their 2009 contest for aspiring travel writers. If you include yourself among the le [...]
Peru Wins World’s Largest Ceviche Title
I’ll admit that I’ve never quite understood people whose greatest burning desire is to get listed in the Guinness Book of World Records, [...]
Matador Participates in Passports with Purpose & YOU Can Win!
If you’re at all connected in the travel blogging community, it’s likely that you already know about Passports with Purpose. Just in ca [...]
Write & Win
Beth Whitman over at the always interesting travel blog Wanderlust and Lipstick has a few cool projects in the works that we’ll be featuring o [...]
Vote for TIME’s Person of the Year
Though it’s widely rumored that Barack Obama will be named TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year regardless of election outcomes, the decis [...]
C’mon & take a free ride… to Indonesia!
I’ve said it before, but it bears repeating: Matador members are incredible people. They travel not just to see the world, but to take in what [...]
NYC Blog Contest Winner Announced!
A week ago, Pulse announced a contest: write an entertaining blog about an NYC experience and win a Not For Tourists NYC Guide. You can find the win [...]
Freebie of the Week: Not for Tourists Guide to NYC!
Do you love New York City? Do you love free stuff? Well, keep reading… Next week, the Matador team will be publishing a guide to visiting NYC [...]
Bite Me, American Airlines!
I happen to detest American Airlines. So I was pretty intrigued when I checked Christine Gilbert’s website, AlmostFearless, and read her late [...]
Freebie of the Week: Language & Travel Guide to Sicily
It’s a guidebook. It’s a history book. It’s a language guide. And it has two language CDs that can help whip your Sicilian into sha [...]
World Tourism Day
There’s a holiday for every interest, I suppose, but did you know that September 27 is World Tourism Day? Organized by the United NationsR [...]
Dream of Being a Lonely Planet Photog?
Love those images on the cover of Lonely Planet guides? Fancy yourself a great photographer? Then check out the details of this contest: Lonely Plan [...]
What did you do on your summer vacation? Write about it and win free travel!
Photo by Sarah Giesecke Remember those essays you used to write in the first week back at grade school, “What I Did On My Summer Vacation̶ [...]
Ready, Set, Click!
Got some great photos? National Geographic Traveler and Photo District News have some great prizes! [...]
