It’s sad, but true.

The majority of Americans have a measly two weeks available for vacation each year.

Let’s face it …

Your customers barely have the time to take a vacation, let alone time to waste planning one.

They need trusted travel resources, reliable booking sites, easy-to-follow guidebooks, and outstanding tour operators.

You can provide them with these services, and we can help.

As visitors browse our pages and read our articles searching for the best and most practical travel advice, they’re also looking for you — a hotel where they can stay, a booking site where they can find the cheapest airfare, a trusted tour company, or a reliable guidebook they can reference for more detailed information.

The Time-Crunched Traveler helps you meet your travel-addicted customers right where they are.

What is The Time-Crunched Traveler?

The Time-Crunched Traveler is a travel information website that helps working professionals make the most of their limited vacation time. You may only have two weeks vacation each year, but we believe you really can explore the world, two weeks at a time. That’s why we help you spend less time planning, and more time traveling.

What services do we provide?

The Time-Crunched Traveler is dedicated to helping time-crunched Americans make the most of their limited vacation time by providing practical itineraries and travel advice for 2 week vacations and long-weekend getaways.

Specifically, we offer:

• Travel Guides featuring suggested itineraries for time-crunched travelers — those with two weeks, one week, a few days, or just 24-hours to explore a destination — saving you the time of surfing through detailed guidebooks
• Travel Tips on how you can prepare for your trip and make the most of your limited vacation time based on lessons we’ve learned in our own travels
• Travel Videos and Image Portfolios that allow you to explore a destination before you travel there, helping you sort out what you do — and don’t — want to see
• Inspiration from our own travels posted frequently on our travel blog

Who uses The Time-Crunched Traveler?

Our readers are travel addicts with day jobs primarily interested in:
- Family & Couples Travel
- Adventure Travel, including trekking, kayaking, scuba diving, and all sorts of fun stuff
- Backpacking around the world
- Budget travel
- Time-limited travel
- Local and overseas vacations
- Travel photography
- Travel planning
- International Volunteer Opportunities
- Food and Accommodations

Our readers come from more than 125 countries all over the world, including:
- United States ( 67% )
- Canada ( 8% )
- United Kingdom ( 5% )
- Europe
- Australia
- Numerous countries throughout South America and Asia

We have developed a solid readership base that engages frequently with our content through a variety of digital media channels.

Website Traffic & Rankings:
- Monthly visitors: 6,000+
- Monthly pageviews: 8,000+
- Alexa Ranking: 136,000 (June 2012)
- Domain Authority (SEOMoz): 37

Social Media Statistics:
- Twitter followers: 1,600
- Facebook fans: 235

We also have an active and growing community of connections through Pinterest, StumbleUpon, LinkedIn, Google+, and YouTube

Why work with us?

- We’re not just another advertising platform: We are your target customer. We work full-time, we own property, we save for retirement, and we have just a few weeks available for vacation each year … just like the majority of your target consumers. Unfortunately, we can’t travel the world full-time like other travel bloggers. The good news is, neither can your customers. If we find your product or service useful for travel, the odds are, so will they.

- We are committed to publishing high quality writing and superior photography. We want to transport our readers to a specific location through our words and images. This website is first and foremost our online portfolio, not your billboard.

- We’re growing! Although we’ve only been promoting our site since early 2012, our readership has grown significantly. We believe in first developing a strong base of quality content and growing an engaged readership base, rather than simply achieving inflated, misleading site statistics and numbers who follow our brand.

- We build relationships outside the travel blogging community (though don’t get us wrong, we have friends there, too!). Many of our subscribers are not travel bloggers. They are simply travel addicts looking for a fix. They visit our site to get helpful information to plan their next trip or to just live vicariously through our adventures until they embark on their own. The majority of our guest bloggers are selected because they have useful information to share, not because they have a website to promote and a link to provide.

- We are expanding to other travel niches. Currently, we’re developing two sister sites in other more nuanced travel niches, including how to survive the expat life and how to travel throughout China. Pretty soon you’ll have the opportunity to show your face to those markets, too!

- We are relocating to a 1.3 billion-strong travel market that is ripe for harvest. In September 2012, we will relocate to China. This will allow us to tap into a completely new audience – and allow you the opportunity to expose your brand to fresh eyes looking to travel the world!

Partnership & Advertising Options:

The Time-Crunched Traveler is interested in partnering with travel-related companies that offer a valuable product or service to our readers. Companies must share our values and standards for travel services.

- Press & Social Media trips. We are available for press trips to a variety of locations throughout the U.S., China, and the world. What do you have in mind? Press Trip partners will receive product or service review with links included in 3-6 feature articles on our blog, as well as significant promotion through our various social media channels for the duration of our series on that particular location (which can last for over a month!).

- Sponsored blog posts. We can write them, or you can write them, but we reserve the right to offer our honest opinion or to reject your submission if it does not align with our values or standards for a travel product or service. We will also always disclose to the reader if a post is sponsored. We can offer multiple links per article. These posts will be featured in our home page slider for up to two weeks and then will be available through our archives. Rates are competitive and available upon request.

- Contest promotions. Have a travel-related product you would like to promote through a contest on the TCT? Sounds good to us! I’m sure the readers won’t complain. Contests will be promoted primarily through our social media channels, though larger contests can be promoted through blog posts.

- Private ad sales (i.e. banner ads). Ad space is available in a variety of formats on various pages throughout our website. Your product or service must be specific to travel and appropriate for our target audience. Rates are competitive and a variety of packages are available to meet your needs. Details available upon request.

Social Media Management & Consulting Services:

Are you a travel-based business looking to more effectively utilize social media to attract new leads, engage loyal customers, and market your business? We can help! Find out more at Xenith Creative.

Media Appearances:

- We are more than happy to appear on various media platforms to discuss the importance of travel and how you really can make your travel dreams come true under the confines of your limited vacation time. We place a particular emphasis on why more Americans need to get off their butts and see the world. Stingy vacation packages are no excuse!

So what are we waiting for? Let’s work together!

For partnership details and additional requests, please contact Ellen at thetimecrunchedtraveler (at) gmail (dot) com.