Should T-list bloggers learn from the spanish ones? Subscribe

I’ve seen a lack of communication between the travel bloggers during last weeks. In fact, after some tries of puting things together, it has been impossible to create a real community.

Guido at Happyhotelier, has posted an historical overview of how things evolved since Mathieu from Radaron launched the T-List. By the way, Darren from TravelRants, in a funny (or may be not so funny) would like to let the T-List die. Before the T-list, TiB - TravelinBlogs, was launched by me.

After the T-List, came the L-List launched by A Luxury Travel Blog,

Jens Thraenhart created the T-list group on Facebook. Chris Clarke created an open wiki, and Guillaume Thevenot, is scared about a war of bloggers.

As Happyhotelier pointed, it has been impossible to create a real social network nor a Community. In fact Communication between bloggers goes from one blog to another, but remains in the blogs. I understand that there are many blogs, and each blogger has his particular interests. It is understandable the fear that creating a community out of for own blog will decrease the social interest for your blog.

In my opinion International Travel Bloggers must understand that creating something bigger than their own blog, where they and they blog can be part of it, will denifitely benefit the Travel Industry even more than individual initiatives.

A few months ago I launched among other initiatives, something so simple as a discussion group called Turismo 2.0, so cheap as a Google Group, and asked some fellow bloggers like Alberto Galloso, Andreu Llabrés, Edu William, Isaac Vidal, Javier García Cuenca, Jimmy Pons, Joan Gou, Jorge Gobbi, José A.García, Juan J. Sobejano, Juan Llantada, Nando Llorella, Ruymán García to become part of the group, becoming administrators and promoting the discussion from their blogs as well as by posting content.

We understand that not everybody reads blogs, but everybody has email. Our surprise was that after three months, the number of members of the group is around 400 subscribers, and increasing by 10 new members everyday. Discussions are way more interesting than the ones that take placeat the blogs, as travel proffesionals create their own subjects and discussions. My experience is that since Turismo 2.0 was launched, my blog got even more traffic, but the real point is that we, all together have now more readers, and a greater reach of the content.

We all share data, studies, content, and enthusiasm.

I feel we are doing something great all together, and I’m very proud to be part of a community like this.

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7 Responses to “Should T-list bloggers learn from the spanish ones?”

  1. Luxury Travel on March 2nd, 2008 10:41 pm

    Hi Albert

    Interesting post. We have a Facebook group for the T-list also. Why do you think your Spanish group has taken off, and the T-list one hasn’t?

    What do you put it down to?

    Paul

  2. Darren Cronian on March 2nd, 2008 10:50 pm

    I agree with you Albert, generally travel bloggers just don’t want to communicate as a group or community, which I think is a shame.

  3. Albert Barra on March 2nd, 2008 11:42 pm

    Not just a shame but a mistake Darren. I can assure you that the community we’ve created with 1500 members already is a place for conversation that generates more value to our blogs.

  4. Albert Barra on March 4th, 2008 9:17 am

    Paul, I think the only difference is the support that spanish bloggers gave to the community. They saw the oportunity and came on board.

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  6. Elliott Ng on April 23rd, 2008 3:24 am

    Albert, I’ve been thinking about this a lot and was just adding you to my feedreader when i saw this point. look forward to a dialogue about how to create more community around a very diverse group of bloggers. I was hoping Twitter would be a good tool for that.

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