Best Podcasts For People Who Love Travel

Amateur Traveller

Amateur Traveller host Chris Christensen focuses his attentions on specific travel destinations and their certain appeal. Each episode is around 40 minutes to an hour long and centres on a particular country or experience – such as the sprawling national parks of Wyoming to a two-week itinerary for New Zealand – and speaking to people who have extensive knowledge of that destination. 

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Flight Of Fancy

Travel journalist Ben Groundwater gives us bite-sized, 30-minute episodes on everything and everything you’d ever want to hear in a travel podcast. Each week he interviews a different travel professional, who’ll talk through experiences from dangerous border crossings to the most difficult destinations to travel to (but are still worth it). 

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Jump

Formerly known as The Budget-Minded Traveller, host ‘Travelling Jackie’ has given her podcast a revamp. Her focus is on the off-the-beaten-track kind of travel, using insider tips. She also answers travel-related questions in her ‘Ask Jackie’ sessions, which aim to engage with listeners and give in-depth answers. 

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Skift

Every week, the editors from American travel media company Skift sit down with creatives, executives and entrepreneurs from across the travel industry to discuss their insights and perspectives, looking at the how and why of industry patterns and traveller’s habits. Each session covers the latest trends in travel and how these affect us and the industry. 

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Taste Trekkers

This ‘Find Dining’ podcast is for all those who would get on a plane for a good meal. Host Seth Resler sets about interviewing foodie bloggers and culinary masters from cities across the globe to get their insight on the local dining experience in their area. From the national delicacies of Israel to the best Cajun food in Lafeyette, Louisiana, Taste Trekkers gives you an inside look into what you should eat and where around the world. 

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We Travel There

Another great one for people who like to go beyond the tourist attractions and live like a local instead. Eat, drink and sightsee from the perspective of a local with top tips for finding hidden gems from long-time residents around the world.

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Wild Ideas Worth Living

All of us have dreamt of just packing in the job, rent and responsibilities and booking a flight halfway across the world – but this podcast might actually make you do it. Wild Ideas Worth Living is about taking your crazy ideas that seem impossible and making them a reality. Each episode has a cameo from the likes of photographers, marathon runners, musicians, sustainability warriors and famous chefs. 

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Women Who Travel

Conde Nast Traveller editors Lale Arikoglu and Meredith Carey lead the charge on this one, dissecting the realities of traveling as a woman today, high-fiving all those shaking things up in food, hospitality, adventure, and travel journalism, and celebrating all the reasons why we refuse to stay home.

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