Toronto: Architecture + Design

The beautiful Toronto skyline continues to grow and shape the city. From world class attractions such as the CN Tower, to the new award winning Absolute Towers, also known as the “Marilyn Monroe Towers,” Toronto showcases some of the most unique buildings in the world.

TBEX 13 Toronto Venue Change

Toronto is a happening kind of city, and part of what’s happening there right now is construction. There are tons of new construction projects going on around town, and that means some detours and re-routing.

Travel Blog Exchange: How to Get to Toronto on a Budget

Now that the holidays are behind us, more TBEXers are starting to zero in on their travel plans for Toronto. So when we started getting questions from the community about how to get to Toronto without spending a fortune, we asked Toronto resident and TBEX alum Natalie Taylor to give us some tips.

Travel Bloggers: 5 Photography Composition Tips You May Not Know

Most travel bloggers serve double-duty as both writers and photographers, even though we tend to be better at one than the other. Even if you’re not a professional photographer, however, you can learn easy techniques to improve your photography and make it more visually appealing. Today’s guest post by Kim Olson gives you five composition tips that will add variety to your shots.

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No, I Don’t Want to Sign Up for Your Mailing List (And Here’s Why)

I need more emails like I need a hole in the head. I recommend that every online content creator out there has a mailing list, but I actually sign up for very few of them personally. I think mailing lists are great, but some people could have more subscribers if they used their lists slightly differently.

TBEX at NMX 2013: Light Bulb Moments

Have you ever had the pleasure of watching a light bulb go off over someone’s head?

When we’re in the bubble of a TBEX conference, everyone buzzing about the new people they’ve met or the food at the parties or how much they’ve learned, it’s hard to imagine that there are travel bloggers out there who are entirely unaware of TBEX’s existence. But y’know what? We’re still a very small fish, and when Mary Jo and I recently worked at the New Media Expo (NMX) conference in Las Vegas, a phrase we heard repeatedly was, “I had no idea there was a whole conference just for travel blogging!”

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A Travel Blogger’s Guide to ITB Berlin

ITB Berlin – the biggest tourism trade fair in the world – is coming up in March, and with it come many questions. This guest post by Yvonne Zagermann is a beginner’s guide for all of you travel bloggers who never been to ITB and/or Berlin.

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Now Accepting Bids to Host TBEX North America 2014

One of the things I frequently hear is, “TBEX should come to <fill in the blank city>” or “< great location X> would be a wonderful place to have a TBEX” or “We’d love to have TBEX come to our city.”

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5 Reasons Your Sponsorship Pitch Failed

We know that not every request travel bloggers make to destinations, publications, tour companies, and others in the travel industry will get a “yes” – but it may not always be clear why that proposal you thought was so great was rejected (or, worse yet, never got a reply at all). In this guest post, Viator’s Commissioning Editor, Katie Hammel, discusses some of the reasons why she has said no to sponsorship pitches in the past – and some of the lessons she’s learned as she’s sent out pitches of her own.

Upcoming Events

TBEX North America 2026

June 23 - 26 * Richmond, Virginia

TBEX Asia 2026

August 20 - 23 * Almaty, Kazakhstan

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