Here are the 25 best travel podcasts for 2022. Our fourth annual top travel podcast list showcase the best shows to help indulge your inner travel junkie.
The top podcast list includes destination based shows, travel story interviews, travel insider scoops, and travel tips and insight based shows. Your sure to find some new shows to binge on!
So here in alphabetical order, are the 25 Best Travel Podcasts to check out in 2022.
1. Active Travel Adventures
If you want to hike, bike and/or paddle the world as a way to explore new cultures and landscapes, this is your show, hosted by moi. If you are reasonably fit and are willing to train, you can do the multi-day adventure travels featured on this program! Each episode features an amazing adventure you can do on your vacation, such as climbing Machu Picchu, hiking all or part of the El Camino de Santiago, paddling the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon, or cycling Cambodia’s Angkor Wat. Active Travel Adventures
2. Alice in Wanderland
Join adventurer Alice Morrison as she regales you with tales of travel and customs throughout Africa and the Middle East, especially from her home base in the beautiful Atlas Mountains of Morocco. She and producer Vic Phillipson help give you an insider’s look at life in this exotic region. Alice in Wanderland
3. Amateur Traveler
Chris Christensen hosts this long running travel podcast. Each week (since 2005!), Chris interviews a guest about itinerary ideas for specific destinations. You’ll learn what to see and do, where to eat and where to stay. With almost 800 episodes, you are sure to find detailed information about any destination on your travel list! PS: You can check out my own interview about the Crystal Coast of NC Amateur Traveler
4. Armchair Explorer
If you love wonderful storytelling, this is your show. Beautifully produced, each show features amazing adventurers who tell their stories from the road. You will hear about exciting and challenging adventures allowing you to live vicariously through the guests. Unlike a lot of us podcasters, you can tell host Aaron Miller has a professional writing and production background. Armchair Explorer
5. Culturally Ours
Karthika Gupta hosts a thoughtful travel podcast that examines the art, culture, lifestyle and food of destinations around the world. You might learn about the colorful Holi festival in her native India, or the practice of Japanese forest bathing. Each season brings new and interesting aspects of travel that teach us that, despite our differences and how we manifest our traditions, deep down, we are all the same. Culturally Ours
6. Extra Pack of Peanuts
Each week since 2013, hosts Travis and Heather explore all things travel. Sometimes they interview guests who come on the show to share an amazing adventure. Other times they share helpful travel tips. Commonly, they might showcase the “Best of” a certain enjoyment of a given destination, such as the best breweries or ice cream shops you need to check out. Extra Pack of Peanuts
7. Eye on Travel with Peter Greenberg
Legendary CBS travel news journalist, Peter Greenberg, hosts this weekly travel podcast where he interviews high profile industry guests about a specific timely topic or destination. My favorite ‘go to’ podcast for travel news, particularly during this crazy time! A fantastic resource to get the inside scoop on all things travel. Eye on Travel
8. Frommer’s Travel Podcast
You know Frommer’s from the guidebooks, now get an insider’s peek into travel from their podcast. Join host Pauline Frommer and an assortment of travel pros as they discuss travel trends, insights and all things travel. Frommer’s
9. JUMP with Traveling Jackie
Join Traveling Jackie as she explores travel, adventure and lifestyle in a mix of solo shows and guest interviews. Feel like you are eavesdropping on engaging conversations that will encourage you to get out and go on an adventure. I was so inspired that I signed up to go on one of the adventure trips she hosts! JUMP
10. Let’s Go Together
Produced by Travel & Leisure, the Let’s Go Together podcast features diverse voices sharing their unique travel experiences and inspiring others to explore the world. Let’s Go Together
11. Speaking of Travel
Host Marilyn Ball interviews guests about their inspiring and enriching travel stories. You will learn about different customs, foods and destinations, and come away anxious to go on your next big adventure. Speaking of Travel
12. The Big Travel Podcast
Host Lisa Francesca Nand interviews fascinating guests who reveal their most interesting travel stories, and weave in other tales that made them who they are today. The Big Travel Podcast
13. The Overland Journal Podcast
If you prefer traveling via 4WD or adventure cycling, then this is your show! You’ll learn about all sorts of fun adventures from hosts, Scott Brady and Matthew Scott. You’ll hear not just about cool destinations, but also travel and gear tips from folks who have overlanded all seven continents. The Overland Journal Podcast
14. The Thoughtful Travel Podcast
Each week, Aussy host Amanda Kendle interviews two or three fellow travelers regarding a specific topic. They’ll share stories about meeting locals, slow travel, tackling foreign languages, getting lost, what we can learn from traveling, etc. The Thoughtful Travel Podcast
15. The Travel Diaries
Get the backstory from fascinating guests as host Holly Rubenstein interviews them about their most memorable travel experiences. Guests include Jane Goodall, Simon Reeve, Jacqui Gifford and more on the UK’s most popular travel podcast. The Travel Diaries
16. The Trip That Changed Me
Great interviews of folks whose lives have literally been transformed by travel: perhaps to start a new business, have a change of perspective, find a new love, or discover their life’s purpose. The personal tales demonstrate the power of travel and how it can transform your life. The Trip That Changed Me
17. Travel Tales by AFAR
Looking for travel inspiration, great story telling about the transformative power of travel, in addition to cool travel destinations? Then this is your podcast. Each episode features someone who sets off on a journey and returns home transformed. Travel Tales by AFAR
18. Travel Tales
Comedian Mike Siegel interviews travelers, often entertainers like himself, about the ups and downs of travel. You feel like you are eavesdropping in on a private conversation as guests share their compelling, often humorous stories about their life on the road. Travel Tales
19. Travel With Meaning
Each epsiode of this interview based show focuses on a usually high profile guest and their travel stories and how travel became such an important part of their lives. Travel With Meaning
20. Travel with Rick Steves
The leader of all things European, this long time radio show host shares his popular radio program as a podcast. With over 400 episodes, you are sure to find the answers to any of your European questions about destinations, customs, tips and more. Travel with Rick Steves
21. Unfolding Maps
Compelling stories about amazing travelers and their journeys to the furthest reaches of the planet. You will come away enthralled, inspired and blown away. Unfolding Maps
22. Wander Woman
Join host Phoebe Smith as she tackles a new travel adventure each month in a magazine style format. In addition to her travel tales and insights, she also shares travel tips, hacks and gear recommendations. Wander Woman
23. We Travel There
Host Lee Huffman chats with locals about a particular destination so you get the inside scoop on what to see, do, eat and drink from a local’s point of view. We Travel There
24. World Nomads Travel Podcast
Join hosts Phil Sylvester and Kim Napier as they discuss all things travel and check in with intrepid travelers from around the world. You’ll learn about destinations and customs, get helpful travel tips and gain insights into travel today. World Nomads Travel Podcast
25. Zero To Travel
Jason Moore hosts this informative and inspirational podcast that teaches you the many ways that you can travel – even if you don’t have a lot of money. You’ll learn from travelers who are actually using these clever techniques. Plus you will hear from folks who are digital nomads and have figured out how to make a living as they travel the world. Check out my own interview on ZTT about taking cheap Alaskan Cruises here. Zero To Travel
BONUS PODCAST : Alpaca My Bags
A great podcast where host Erin Hynes and her guests discuss what makes travel and tourism responsible, what traveling authentically looks like, sustainable tourism, dark tourism, and much more. You will hear underrepresented perspectives and may come away seeing travel in a new light. Alpaca My Bags
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