The GoNOMAD Cafe in South Deerfield, MA.

GoNOMAD--The Alternative Travel Network

Check here regularly for the latest press releases and media information about GoNOMAD.com, the alternative travel portal where you can read fresh travel articles and accurate destination guides, browse hundreds of tour company listings, and buy air, rail, hotels, cars, and anything else you'll need to take your own journey.

December 2010

As we come to the close of another year, we prepare to exhibit at a second major Travel Show, this will be the Boston Globe Travel Show in February 2010. We will join our friends at Bootnall.com to offer a seminar to travel professionals about using social media such as Twitter, Facebook and blogs to help market travel destinations. Later in February we will return for our third year to the New York Times Travel Show and there we will present a seminar on Travel writing for newbies.

Our traffic is at a record--269,000 monthly unique visitors--and we have never had so many excellent articles to publish. The word is spreading fast about the quality of our editorial and more and more people are finding us a useful place to begin travel planning. The cafe is going great guns, full of neighbors and travelers enjoying pannini, homemade soups, coffee and conversation. In the works are a radio program to be aired three times a week on WHMP-AM, and a cable Television program to be aired on the local cable channel.

As usual, we have two interns joining us as we have done since 2005!

August 2009

GoNOMAD"s editor Max Hartshorne is quoted along with Pauline Frommer, Peter Greenberg, and other travel experts for a round up of summer travel ideas in READERS DIGEST magazine. This fall he may be getting a chance to write a blog for a local newspaper. Max and Kent St. John regularly go on travel radio shows to talk about their stories. Audio podcasts can be heard for many of these.

May 2009

Three interns join the ranks at GoNOMAD, contributing articles, doing travel research, writing blogs and helping us promote the website. They also traveled, going on story assignments to interesting places around the world. Many of our newest articles are set closer to home, in New England and other US destinations.

January 2009

Going into our third year at the GoNOMAD Cafe and bringing on many new features and a new catalog of exciting trips and tours, we have been seeing great traffic in the cafe and on the website! In our ninth year on the web, we're working on a redesign of the whole site. We continue to get the word out with our second year at the NY Times Travel Show exhibiting and developing a new TV show about our brand of travel.

December 2008

It's been a great year for GoNOMAD, beginning with sending writers around the globe in search of stories. We were invited to go to Iran by the government tourism officials and joined 120 other professionals for a tour of Iran's great cities.

We began the year with the New York Times Travel Show, where we had a booth and met many of our readers and fans during the large travel trade show.

During the show Kent St. John, Max Hartshorne and guest Matthew Link offered a three person look at how to become a travel writer. We gave tips for dealing with editors and how to write for publications to a large audience at the NY show.

GoNOMAD has also will be speaking for the second year on Search Engine Optimizing for Travel sites at the Boston Globe Travel Show in February 2009.

May 2007

The GoNOMAD Cafe celebrates one year in business and adds sandwiches, new coffee drinks, and salads to the menu. A larger new cappuccino maker joins an industrial sized oven to allow many more exciting foods to be served.

The cafe has become the hub of the town, a gathering place for many folks young and old. GoNOMAD.com counts 340,000 unique monthly visitors exploring the website and our CPC, CPA and CPM ad programs bear generous fruit. Internet Advertising Has Arrived.
Content arrangements with Tribune Publishing and other newspaper companies provides added publicity plus a new revenue stream. Yahoo Travel links 400 of GoNOMAD's articles as expert guides on their site.

February 2006

GoNOMAD.com owner Max Hartshorne opens the new GoNOMAD Café in bustling downtown South Deerfield, where customers can get coffee and pastries, check their email and surf the web. The new café features five pcs as well as wireless access.

December 2005

A crew from WGBY Springfield visits GoNOMAD's offices to shoot a segment for their series "Making it Here " that was aired in May 2006. Watch the 6-minute episode.

August 2005

GoNOMAD.com is written up The Associated Press. This story appears in newspapers all over the US and Canada, including The Sacramento Bee, The Boston Herald, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Brandon (Ontario) Sun, The San Mateo County Times and the Windsor (Ontario) Star.

Traffic has never been higher on the site, and publicity continues to come in about our kind of travel.

More than 7500 readers visit GoNOMAD.com every day, view traffic stats.

February 2005

GoNOMAD.com emerges from the cellar! The website officially moves out of editor Max Hartshorne's basement to a spacious office at 14A Sugarloaf Street in picturesque South Deerfield, Massachusetts, next to Charsky Insurance and Fisher's Garage.

March 2004

GoNOMAD.com is written up in the Daily Hampshire Gazette. "If you approach something with real passion and dedication and think about it all the time, and work on it until 1 am," Hartshorne told Staff Writer Nick Grabbe, "eventually you're going to succeed. I'm already succeeding by traveling, editing and teaching people how to work with the Web. And I'm having a ball."

January 2004
GoNOMAD.com Editor Max Hartshorne, Senior Travel Editor Kent St. John, Travel Writers Cindy Bigras and Lisa St. John, and Sales Director Joe O'Rourke staff an exhibit at the Adventure Expo at the Javits Center in New York City. 22,000 people attend.

August 15, 2000
GoNOMAD.com is officially launched by its creator, Lauryn Axelrod. Read her original press release:
New Travel Website offers Alternatives to Package Tours, Cookie-Cutter Hotels and Crowded Destinations

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