What Is GoNOMAD.com Travel? Publishing Great Travel Stories from 2000-2024

(GoNOMAD is no longer accepting travel stories for publication)

We’re not a travel agency, we don’t sell tours, book flights, or reserve hotel rooms. Instead, we published great travel writing and started our cozy community cafe that brought the best people in our Pioneer Valley village together over coffee, good food, and conversation. The cafe is gone, but the spirit of the community we fostered is alive and well.

GoNOMAD Travel Podcast, updated weekly, is now part of the Voyascape Travel Network, with more than 3000 downloads per episode in 2026!

GoNOMAD is on many, many lists of the World’s Best Travel sites….and we’re proud of the thousands of articles and hundreds of writers we’ve encouraged and published. We got our start before most other travel sites were online…way back in 2000.

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The algorithm detected a low risk for activity related to phishing, spamming, and other factors noted in the Known. Standard. Fair. tags above. Long story short, we deem this website low risk, but you still need to pay attention to details and use common sense when engaging in online transactions of any kind.

We are all about the different kinds of travel….the zig not the zag, the intriguing and thought-provoking places are where we live. We cover out-of-the-way, out-of-this-world travel experiences and new takes on popular places you already know about.

We promise never to bore you!

GoNOMAD is well known among tourism boards, travel writers, and anyone who is well-versed in travel and wants to get the skinny on the unexplored, the unseen, and the unwritten about. Search our site, and find great travel writing and photography that gets to the heart of the place. Read testimonials from CVBs and tourism boards who have worked with us.

Read the Timeline of the entire history of GoNOMAD Travel since 2000

Want to read about us in print? Send us your postal address and we’ll send you a brochure about GoNOMAD.com.

Here is a profile of editor Max Hartshorne from January 2017 from Masslive.com.

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Top travel writers write original, unusual, and inspiring travel articles. Detailed guides to off-the-beaten-path destinations and favorites from a new perspective

More travel content than 99% of travel sites on the web. Since 2000!

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Some of the best travel writing you can find on the web.

A place where you can ask questions about travel and get answers from the pros.

WHAT IS ALTERNATIVE TRAVEL, ANYWAY?

At GoNOMAD, we define Alternative Travel as “Participatory Travel.” Beyond passive sightseeing, Alternative Travel engages travelers with the people, culture, and environment of a destination. It is travel that teaches, travel that challenges, travel that enlightens, and rewards. Read an interview with GoNOMAD editor Max Hartshorne from June 2017 about travel writing.

A vital aspect of Alternative Travel is an emphasis on sustainable and responsible tourism. Alternative travelers are concerned about the environments and cultures of the destinations they visit and want to help preserve and conserve those resources for the resident communities and future travelers.

Thus, Alternative Travel is also participatory in this regard: helping to maintain and sustain communities and people around the globe through awareness and support.

Whether through taking a weaving course in Guatemala, volunteering in Nepal, joining an active, educational tour through Europe, or staying with a local family in Africa, alternative travel brings travelers into close contact with communities and destinations and returns them home changed by their experience: enlightened, challenged, rewarded.

WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT GoNOMAD AND ALTERNATIVE TRAVEL?

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Read the GoNOMAD Editor’s Blog, Readuponit, for an inside look at us.

Read an interview with GoNOMAD editor Max Hartshorne

Read a story about how GoNOMAD in 2016, from the Recorder Newspaper