Work With Travel Makes Me Happy

Authentic travel stories. Memorable experiences. Happier journeys.

Travel Makes Me Happy partners with select destinations, hotels, restaurants, and travel experiences to create honest, traveler-first content designed to inspire the trip and help travelers plan it.

From search-focused travel guides to YouTube videos and short-form social content, we create firsthand travel stories that help memorable places and experiences get discovered.

Travel Content Built for Discovery

A great travel story should do more than get attention for a day.

Travel Makes Me Happy reaches travelers across Google Search, YouTube, and social media, connecting with audiences from the moment they start dreaming about a trip through the research and planning stage.

Our firsthand travel guides, hotel reviews, restaurant features, and video content are created to help travelers discover memorable experiences and make real decisions about where to go, where to stay, and what to add to their trip.

Ways to Work With Travel Makes Me Happy

We especially love working with destinations, hotels, restaurants, and travel experiences that have a unique story to tell.

Have a different collaboration idea?

We are happy to discuss creative partnerships that naturally fit the Travel Makes Me Happy audience and our traveler-first approach to content.

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Travel Content That Can Keep Working After the Trip

Social content can introduce travelers to a place in seconds. Search-focused travel content can help them rediscover it when they are ready to plan.

Travel Makes Me Happy combines visual storytelling with evergreen travel articles designed around the questions real travelers are searching for.

This gives select partnerships the opportunity to live beyond a single social post and become part of broader destination coverage, hotel guides, restaurant recommendations, itineraries, and travel planning content.

Our content connects different stages of the travel planning journey, from discovering a place through video to actively researching it through Google Search.

Discovery on social. Trip planning through search. Firsthand travel stories connecting the two.

Collaboration Spotlight: Conchiglia Key West

Travel Makes Me Happy partnered with Conchiglia to experience the restaurant firsthand and introduce travelers to its coastal Italian concept in Old Town Key West.

We approached the collaboration from a traveler’s perspective, focusing on the coastal atmosphere, handmade pasta, and overall experience of discovering a distinctive dining spot while visiting Key West.

Rather than creating a traditional advertisement, we developed content around the genuine travel experience and connected Conchiglia naturally with our broader Key West destination and foodie coverage.

See our Conchiglia collab content:

• Conchiglia YouTube Short
• Long format YouTube Video
• Instagram on Conchiglia
• TikTok version

The goal was simple: introduce travelers to a memorable Key West dining experience in a way that felt like a genuine discovery and recommendation.

LET’S TELL YOUR STORY

Meet KJ

Hi, I’m Kerri “KJ” Jones, founder, travel writer, and head content creator behind Travel Makes Me Happy.

I’m a New Orleans-based traveler with a master’s degree in sociology and graduate work focused on the sociology of travel. My background shapes the way I experience destinations and tell travel stories, with a focus on the people, places, and moments that make a trip memorable.

We personally experience the destinations, hotels, restaurants, and attractions featured in our firsthand travel coverage and create content with one goal in mind: helping travelers find experiences they will be excited to recommend to someone else.

READ MORE ABOUT KJ

Want the Numbers, Content Options, and Partnership Details?

View the Travel Makes Me Happy 2026 Media Kit for current audience highlights, search reach, collaboration opportunities, and a closer look at our traveler-first approach to travel content.

Let’s Tell a Travel Story People Actually Want to Experience

Have a destination, hotel, restaurant, or experience travelers should know about?

We’d love to hear the story and explore ways to introduce it to the Travel Makes Me Happy audience.

For partnerships, hosted experiences, sponsored content, and media inquiries:

KJ
Founder & Travel Content Creator
Travel Makes Me Happy
New Orleans, Louisiana

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