This website was started exactly a year ago today to bring awareness to transformational travel. We are thrilled to celebrate this milestone with you!
We launched this site for you our fellow travelanthropists — those who are interested in or already adopters of travel that makes a difference. Our working definition of traveler’s philanthropy is simple — traveler’s kindness/charity/giving towards a destination (its people, community, etc). We recognized the need for a website specifically for travelers. In an industry that is still rather fragmented, we hope to be a trusted online …

Our warmest wishes for your holidays! Travelanthropist is on holiday break and will be back in 2010.

Yesterday, I was on the VolunTourist, a weekly webcast of Voluntourism.org, to share about our website and traveler’s philanthropy. Among the many things we discussed were our vision for Travelanthropist and how we see voluntourism within the context of traveler’s philanthropy. I thought I would share some of those thoughts here since we have not done so for a while.
Most websites we’ve come across on travel philanthropy and voluntourism are targeted at industry players, very few are meant for travelers. We recognized the need for a website about travel philanthropy …

Just found out we got featured in the list of 100 incredible philanthropy blogs under the “Individual Ways to Make a Difference” category. We’re #18 on the list!
This is a pretty interesting list with nine categories. Thanks Amber for the head’s up!
photo by eliazar

USA TODAY
We are thrilled USA TODAY picked up our recent post on “Remedy for Recession” this past Friday. Travel writer, Laura Bly, echoed our sentiment that laid-off workers needn’t stay put, they can give back.
We believe you will see more on this topic in traditional media. Volunteering abroad as a travel option is extremely attractive for those who are flexible (finance, time, etc.) and have a desire to do something greater than themselves.
A few things are happening that are creating momentum for volunteer travel abroad:
1) there has been a strong …