We are an independent travel company, passionate about helping indie travelers dream up and plan their adventures — from an epic round the world trip or career break, to a two week trip to Italy, or a weekend dash to the beach.
BootsnAll Travel Network is a community of online resources and travel guides that connect and inspire independent travelers — reaching over 3.6 million travelers per month. Currently based all over the globe with concentrations of people in the USA, Eastern Europe and Australasia.
BootsnAll’s purpose is…
to cultivate an organic community that encourages independent travel.
What is BootsnAll?
Community: Get ready for your next adventure with community-driven travel inspiration: engaging travel articles, forums, community-submitted travel stories, and personal travel blogs. Where it all started in 1998.
Round The World Travel: Plan your big trip with the world’s best travel tools for the Round the World traveler, endorsed by Rolf Potts, renowned travel author of Vagabonding.
WhyGo Travel Guides: Need an accessible expert? Check out our 48 destination-based online travel guides, including WhyGo Bali, WhyGo Australia, and Why Go Italy — the #1 English-language Italy travel guide website.
Trip Planning Tools: Map out your RTW route, snag discounts on point-to-point European rail tickets, find the right travel insurance for your trip, research the best travel gear, search for hotels and hostels, or just browse the latest cheap tickets and travel deals.
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Our Core Values are:
- Embrace Change
- Make Meaningful Connections
- Love Learning
- Work and Play with Passion
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BootsnAll Travel Network
Mailing Address:
237 Chkalov Dr. Suite 210
Vancouver, WA 98684, USA
History:
The BootsnAll Travel Network was started by backpack-around-the-world type travelers in 1998. Co-founders Chris Heidrich and Sean Keener turned down investment and buyout offers during the first dot-com boom in 1999, despite having no revenue and no business model to speak of, and supporting themselves by doing a newspaper delivery route for two years. 13 years later, the BootsnAll Travel Network has grown into a community of over 100,000 members.
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As of 2010, BootsnAll has been totally virtual with staff based in several cities around the globe. We’re a tight-knit group. We like getting together for planning meetings and social occasions when we can. We’ve got a pretty varied list of interests individually, and we have one thing in common – we love travel and travelers.
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Other Facts “About Us”:
- We have been in the travel business and online since 1998.
- We love hearing from travelers – including meeting up when our paths cross.
- We are active in communities like Facebook, Twitter, and our very own travel message boards.
- We are available by email and even by phone – a real person answers your calls and your questions.
- We are intent on finding the information you need, no matter where it is.
- We have information for every stage of a trip – from when you’re planning your trip to when you’re on your trip to when you get back from your trip.
- We have more than 400,000 posts on our message boards, and more than 10,000 travel articles to inspire and inform. Write for BootsnAll
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- We are always building new tools for the independent traveler, and if we find a tool elsewhere that we like we share it – we believe the online travel market is a collaborative place that should make it easy to find what you’re looking for.
- We value feedback and want to hear what you like and what you don’t like about BootsnAll – we are always looking for ways to improve.
