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Vote Now! Discover Dominica Photo Contest Finalists
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After hours of careful review and consideration, we present you with our top 25 picks. Now it's your turn to select the winner! More »
Winner of Matador’s Twitter Contest for Free Tuition Introduces Herself
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Susan Marjanovic is totally living the Matador vision...so her win seems like perfect synchronicity. More »
Wend Announces September’s Friday Photo Contest Theme
Your trekking and hiking photos can win you some free gear! More »
Matador Members Reach Semi-Final in Trazzler’s NYCGO Writing Contest
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And they'd love it if you'd consider voting for them! More »
Nat Geo Announces International Photography Contest
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Sift through your travel photography collection and submit your best people, places, or nature shots. More »
Wend Announces Theme for August Friday Photo Contest
We want to see some Matadorians win some KEEN shoes by submitting their photos to Wend's Friday Photo Contest. More »
Contest Alert: Win a Trip to Australia
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First it was Antarctica. Where does World Nomads want to take you next? Read on.... More »
World Nomads Announces Sweet Photography Scholarship
Get your gear bag ready-- you may be headed to Antarctica! More »
Wend’s July Friday Photo Contest
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Wend announces July's Friday Photo Contest theme. More »
Middle Eastern Women Redefining Politics and Public Space
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From Tehran to Cairo, Arabic women are redefining politics and society. More »
Wend’s June Friday Photo Contest Theme Announced
And the grand prize? A pair of Tevas, just in time for summer sporting! More »
Roads Scholarship Winners Announced!
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The applicants were so strong that the Digital Vagabond couldn't choose just one. More »
Honest Tea & Sierra Club Partner in Free Trips Contest
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Utah? Idaho? Montana? Where would you go if you win? More »
Wend Announces May Photo Friday Contest Theme
Wend announces Photo Friday contest theme and prizes. More »
Get Your Camera Clicking!
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2009 Travel Photographer of the Year Competition opens More »
Bradt Travel Guides Announces Competition
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Pull out your pen and get writing for a chance to win a trip for two to Colombia and see your name in print. More »
Woman Sets Guinness Record Eating 51 of the World’s Hottest Chilis
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How many could YOU eat in a minute? More »
The NEXT Best Job in the World
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Bummed that you didn't get the world's best job in Queensland? Dean Horvath has an offer that might console you. More »
Wend Wants to Give You Free Stuff!
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Photo: Laurel Fan
Question: What’s better than winning a contest?
Answer: Winning a contest during an economic crunch.
Our friends over at More »
Congrats to Matador’s Solas Awards Winners!
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The winners of the third annual Solas Awards, honoring the best travel stories of the year, have been announced — and a few Matador members are More »
Matador up for 2 Lonely Planet Travel Blogger Awards!
Photo: Pot Noodle
We don’t want to toot our own horn–well, not too much– but thanks to our supportive community of readers and c More »
Ramen-eating college students, take note!
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Poor ramen noodle-eating college students… it’s so hard for you to afford travel. Especially if your dream is to journey abroad.
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Sustainable Tourism: The 2nd Annual Geotourism Challenge
Travelers — are you looking for businesses to support on your travels that do tourism right?
Or do you know a worthy individual who has put hi More »
Tripfilms Presents the Trippy Awards!
If you’re a traveling film-maker, or just a big fan of travel videos, and you haven’t yet discovered Tripfilms, the travel-focused video More »
Matador Talks with Best Job in the World Applicant, Anny Chih
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If you believe the copy, the best job in the world is lying on a beach, scuba diving the Great Barrier Reef and blogging about it for a cool AUD $15 More »
Photographers: Check Out Wend’s Friday Photo Contest!
‘Tis the season for lots of snow-filled photos. Oh, and for winter jackets, too.
Conveniently enough, our friends over at Wend have decided to More »
Win $50,000 Towards Your Dream Photography Assignment!
Yup, you read that right. The Digital Photography School has teamed up with Lenovo to offer a $50,000 prize in the Name Your Dream Assignment competi More »
Wanted: Employee for the Best Job in the World
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Maybe you’ve heard about the four hour work week.
But how about the 12 hour work month?
That’s what the Australian Tourism Board is pro More »
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 More »
Camels, Unicycles, Kayaks: Enter Wend’s Alternative Transportation Essay Contest!
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Our friends over at Wend Magazine are putting on a fun new writing competition: the Traveling by Alternative Transportation Essay Contest.
Got a stor More »
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 More »
Peru Wins World’s Largest Ceviche Title
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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, More »
Matador Participates in Passports with Purpose & YOU Can Win!
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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 More »
Write & Win
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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 More »
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 More »
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 More »
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 More »
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 More »
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 More »
Freebie of the Week: Language & Travel Guide to Sicily
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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 More »
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 More »
Dream of Being a Lonely Planet Photog?
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Love those images on the cover of Lonely Planet guides?
Fancy yourself a great photographer?
Then check out the details of this contest:
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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 More »
Ready, Set, Click!
Got some great photos? National Geographic Traveler and Photo District News have some great prizes! More »
