7 travel podcasts to look forward to, dream, inform and inspire
Are you looking for inspiration for your next vacation? Do you want to get in the mood for an already planned trip acoustically? Do you enjoy hearing stories about countries near and far, unusual customs and people who call the world home? In everyday life between subway, office and bad news, do you long for a little break where you can dream of faraway places? Then prick up your ears, put on your headphones, close your eyes and immerse yourself in the podcast universe. Our author Ina introduces you to seven travel podcasts.
2. travel
2 weeks all inclusive and vacation on the cruise ship? Not with Michael Dietz and Jochen Schliemann. In their travel podcast, the experienced travel reporters, authors, world discoverers and improvers encourage people to discover their surroundings, people and nature individually and with open eyes when travelling. Humorous and in a good mood, their podcast makes you want to be on the go, to discover, to get involved. And they always give tips on how travel can become more sustainable. They also meticulously determine and offset their own CO2 travel footprint. Although the duo always provides enough entertainment themselves, they regularly invite celebrity guests with whom they philosophize about travel. The two podcasters are convinced: "Travel makes you smarter, travel makes you more tolerant, travel lets us question and better understand the world, our home and ourselves - because travel means travel."
3. There and away - the travel podcast
How is a travel product actually created? How is it marketed? How has Corona changed tourism? How can we travel more sustainably? Sven Meyer and Andy Janz address these and other questions in their travel podcast HIN & WEG. Together with their guests - including travel bloggers, restaurateurs and hoteliers, leisure providers and tour operators - the two cheerful hosts take a look behind the scenes of tourism. And reveal exciting and critical details about the travel industry that often remain hidden from holidaymakers. Informative and entertaining at the same time!
4. world tour
Only people who are full-time vagabonds, dropouts or travel bloggers have time for frills like travel podcasts? That's not true! The two friends Adrian Klie and Christoph Streicher have normal full-time jobs in Germany with 30 days vacation. And of the latter, you don't leave a second unused, but always throw yourself into curious, individual adventures far and near with little luggage and a lot of high spirits. In their travel podcast world tour - with only 25 minutes per episode the shortest podcast we recommend here - they report in an entertaining and informative way about magical places, exciting encounters and large and small travel disasters. Although the two have made it their goal to travel the world, they prefer to travel by train – also for the sake of the climate. And on their website they give 7 tips for fair travel so that you can see as much of this beautiful world as possible and still have your own CO2 footprint under control.
5. Off the path
"Someday is not on the calendar" - that's the motto of travel blogger, author and podcaster Sebastian Canaves. Since a Work & Travel stay in Australia, his travel fever has not cooled down, but has driven him to around 100 different countries worldwide. He prefers to travel with his girlfriend in a jeep and roof tent, far away from the concrete roads and well-trodden paths. In the Off the Path podcast, the globetrotter talks to a wide variety of personalities about their travels, experiences and adventures - from expeditions to Antarctica, trekking through the Indonesian jungle and crossing the Atlantic by sailboat.
Sebastian is the author of various books, including the travel guide "Off The Path - A Travel Guide to Happiness", "Micro Adventure Germany" and "Europe for Adventurers".
6. Nice corners
"It also has nice corners!" - this is how the jingle for the podcast by Cornelis Kater and Sven Sedivy begins. The two have made it their mission to tease out beautiful, livable and exciting details from our cities and serve them with acoustic accompaniment in urban dialogues. Her hobbies: culture, aesthetics and enjoyment - whether in Europe, Asia or the USA. Anyone who scrolls through their now almost 300 podcast episodes quickly realizes that the two really seem to be able to get something out of every place. And that's exactly why we want to recommend this podcast to you. Because it inspires you to be more attentive to your own environment in all its facets - no matter where you are.
7. Coordinates world – women. Travel. Life.
Cornelius, Sebastian, Adrian, Christoph, Andy, Michael, Jochen, Erik and two Svens - you've probably noticed that the travel podcast scene is very male-dominated. Anne B. quit her job in 2021 and drove 5 kilometers through 11.000 European countries in her 4 Series Golf. In doing so, she repeatedly met like-minded, travel-loving women with special stories, which she shared in her podcast “Coordinates World: Women. Travel. Life” wants to give a stage. Whether backpacking in China, a road trip through Jordan or emigrating to Australia - in insightful interviews, Anne's podcast inspires you to give in to wanderlust and follow our travel voice - on your own, bravely and freely.
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Ina Hiester
Ina is a digital nomad and travels through Europe by land and sea. The journalist is always on the lookout for special places for Good Travel, philosophizes about travel in her column, takes photographs, makes music and writes articles on all kinds of environmental and sustainability topics.
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