Lonely Planet have announced their top five nominations for each category in the Travel Blogger Awards.
Categories include Best Destination Blog, Best Expat Blog, Best Micro-Blog (ie. Twitter), Best Image Blog, Best Consumer Travel Blog, Best Video Blog, several non-English language awards, Best Podcast and more.
Some interesting reads in amongst them and plenty of new talent.
We’ve been big fans of Indie Travel and Amateur Traveller – both nominated in the podcast category – and hope they do well.
But a few compelling newbies we’ve discovered while perusing the list are the video blogs of Amtrakker
and if for the biggest pillow fight you’ve ever seen, check dis:
The winners are decided half on public votes and half by the LP judges, which seems fair enough – and perhaps keeps the cyber cheats at bay. Voting close at 12am on Wednesday 20th March (Pacific Time USA), so get clicking.
[...] There are 14 categories in all and Tumbrella for one is fascinated to see the outcome. We’ve talked about some of our favourite nominees before, here and here. [...]
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