Hey there!

I hope you had a fabulous Christmas and New Year!

I managed to roast both lamb and turkey without burning them, then headed off to Koh Lipe in Thailand with my baby and husband.

I'll share some pics at the end of the email - I've never seen pure white sand and seawater so clear in my entire life O_O

I've noticed an uptick of people in my community starting travel blogs this year - this makes sense, here's why!

1. It's easier than ever to drive traffic to travel blogs now, with platforms like FB, Pinterest, and Flipboard favoring the travel niche.

You can set up and grow traffic to your travel blog MUCH faster than in the past, when we relied on only Google.

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2. Travel in 2026 is expected to trend upward toward less-traveled destinations, which means there isn't much content out there on less touristy destinations (this is where you come in, fellow travel blogger!)

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3. It's also now MUCH easier to monetize with Travelpayouts Drive. This is a tool that's undergone a major AI update to make it easier to use on our blogs and more profitable, too!

​Travelpayouts Drive is an AI-powered monetization engine built directly into the Travelpayouts platform for travel websites and blogs.

Essentially it automatically

• analyzes your content and traffic,
• understands how users behave on your site,
• finds missed revenue opportunities,
• applies the most effective monetization tools at the right time.

In the past, this is what you would have to do to monetise your content with affiliates :

1- Analyse and identify high-performing content to add links to

2- Apply to an affiliate program

3- Manually add the links one by one

4- Repeat for each new program

5- Update old content with new links

6- Repeat

It was so time-consuming and exhausting 😔

I would lose track of which link was for which program and which program I applied to.

There were also lots of missed monetisation opportunities because I didn't have time to go in and manually link.

However, now with Travelpayouts Drive, here's the process:

1- You sign up to Travelpayouts​

2- Go to tools, switch on Travelpayouts Drive by clicking on ‘Enable All’, and sit back and watch the monetisation magic happen!

Then you click on Drive and enable it.

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Here are a few things that Travelpayouts Drive does automatically for you :

1- Upgrades your existing content

It automatically monetizes already published content by

• converting regular links into affiliate links

• adding contextual travel tips and previews

This means your old content starts earning more — without any manual updates. Everything you’ve already published becomes more efficient.

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2- Adds what’s missing on your site and in your content

It detects where monetization opportunities are missing and automatically places links and widgets where they are most likely to convert.

Like this :

3- Engages and converts your readers

It analyzes reader behavior, identifies high-intent users, and shows them relevant offers at the right moment (opening them in a new tab) — without interrupting or harming the UX.

4-You get deep insights into your content performance

It provides advanced, travel-specific analytics showing which articles earn the most, which tools perform best, and where growth potential exists

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In the past, even if you had lots of traffic to your site, you couldn't earn because

• You didn't have time or energy.
• You didn't have the knowledge to earn from affiliates (how do you apply, which program, etc.).

​Travelpayouts Drive has removed both these barriers to income, helping us all earn more from our travel blogs!

Try Travelpayouts Drive on your website now and see how AI-powered monetization works. And if you haven’t signed up for Travelpayouts yet, …what are you waiting for !

​Sign up here ​

Thanks for reading

Aisha Preece from Outandbeyond.com​

​Ps. I share my bare minimum low effort strategy to grow my blogs on my Instagram stories — if you want more behind-the-scenes like this, come hang out: @aishapreece​

PS: Here are some pics of our Christmas and travels!

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