Top Travel Influencers Brands Need to Know About

Since today’s consumers trust social media influencers and their recommendations above anybody else, influencers have become an integral part of many brands’ marketing strategies. Influencer campaigns can drive main metrics like engagement, visibility, number of followers, and increased sales, etc.

Partnerships with travel influencers can help brands reach a wider audience and boost engagement in an authentic and organic way. Travel influencers can persuade others to take action, which depends on what brands want to achieve. By partnering with the right travel influencers, you can get your brand in front of a wide audience. Many hospitality and travel brands know that travelers trust peer recommendations, so  they add travel influencers into their marketing plan.

But how do you find the right person to grow your brand? In this stage, Keepface steps in. Keepface is an automated platform for brands to reach most relevant influencers, communicate with them, and manage campaigns using real-time analytics. 

Keepface influencer marketing software helps you identify, recruit, and negotiate with influencers in one platform. You can find influencers with any audience and engagement rates in the Keepface database with spending less time. Filter influencers by category, country, engagement rate, followers, gender, budget as well as analyze their key metrics to find the best-fitting influencers for your campaigns. You also get an in-depth analysis of influencers’ social profiles, performance data, and audience.  

Searching for a travel influencer on Instagram or elsewhere is time-consuming.  Here we created a list of top travel influencers that can boost brand awareness and reach. You can also find them or other influencers with any audience and engagement rate in the Keepface database if you want any further collaboration.  

Emilie Ristevski

Emilie Ristevski is an Australian photographer & travel influencer and the creative mind behind @helloemilie.  Emilie is a Freelance Travel and Lifestyle photographer for an extensive range of tourism boards, digital publications, and lifestyle clients and has partnered with some of the world’s leading brands, including Adobe, Lonely Planet, Mercedes Benz, and many more. 

Her distinctive style of dream-like imagery has led her to all corners of our planet, from remote villages in South America to Iceland, Namibia, and everywhere in-between. Emilie’s work aims to encourage her audience to seek a deeper connection with nature and themselves, in the hope to discover a new found love for our beautiful planet earth we call home. Helloemilie has 1.3M followers and a 2.3%Engagement Rate on Instagram.

Chelsea Yamase

From free diving over one hundred feet into the ocean’s depths to walking five hundred feet in the air, Chelsea Yamase, aka @chelseakauai, isn’t afraid to go the distance. She is a Hawaii-based influencer and deeply curious human here practicing courage. Known for her bravery in the outdoors, Chelsea has been hiking, diving, surfing, slacklining, and photographing way through 53 countries and counting. And with a million followers and a 5.01% engagement rate on Instagram, it seems that Yamase’s daredevil nature and athletic abilities are capturing the attention of the world. 

Thebucketlistfamily

Meet the Gee family!  They work from all around the world as Family Travel Journalists! Their story began in 2015 when they decided to sell everything and leave home for a journey around the world together. They also started a blog, and with over 2.5M Instagram followers and a 5.67% engagement rate, they now have enough income to support their travel. They say it is a difficult decision to reset our lives and sell everything but they’re grateful every day that we took that chance and were brave. 

Yana Leventseva

@yana_leventseva is an Instagram star and model who is known for also being a travel blogger, photographer, makeup artist. She is known for sharing a variety of her artistic endeavors as well as modeling content with her over 1.1 million Instagram followers, where engagement rate is 2.13%. She first began sharing fitness and modeling related content on her Instagram. She can be seen modeling and representing a variety of different companies on her Instagram including Guess, Vivasan, and Mille Rose Milano. 

Kyle Dempsey

Thanks to travel snapshots and other photography projects, Dempsey’s Instagram account, @KyleFinnDempsey, has more than 565K followers with a 3.48% engagement rate. He is known for whimsical shots featuring rustic cabins, cozy nooks, old vehicles, fall foliage, and campfires. Dempsey said that he tries to create content that transports the viewer into the scene, forgetting their stresses and flooding their minds with hope and happiness.

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