My First TBEX Travel Blogger Conference: Here’s What I Learned
Muckross Abbey, a short walk from the TBEX convention
Oh dear. I should done this so much sooner.
I’m now in my fifth year of travel blogging, but it’s taken me all this time to finally attend my first travel blogger conference.
I’ve just wrapped up three exhausting but incredibly fulfilling days at TBEX Europe 2017, an event held in Killarney, Ireland. Still dizzied from all the talks, lunches, networking sessions, and parties I’ve attended this week, it’s clear to me that I’m a dum-dum and should have gone to these events from year one.
You see, travel blogging can be a lonely pursuit. You typically don’t have any direct colleagues (and even if you’re a couple blogger you only have one). You’re just plodding along, learning by yourself, and doing your own shtick. And that’s what makes it so valuable to go to a conference like this: being in the same room with hundreds of people who are also travel bloggers is simply priceless.
While TBEX is set up to…
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