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Work with us to tell stories that connect curious travellers with remarkable places.
Our Audience
Travel & Lust reaches curious, independent-minded travellers looking for places worth travelling for. Our readers are drawn to boutique hospitality, thoughtful design, local culture and a slower, more considered way of experiencing a destination.
- 45k + annual pageviews
- 25.8K Instagram views / 90 days
- 78.6% Instagram views from non followers
- 63% of our Instagram audience is aged 25-44.
Hotel Reviews
Personal accounts of stays that left a mark. We look beyond the room to the design, people, food and sense of place that make a hotel worth travelling for.
Notes
Stories, openings and observations from the places shaping how we travel.
Palazzo Revival: New Italian and Maltese Stays Worth Knowing
Some buildings are better for having waited. Over the past few weeks, four palazzi that have outlasted centuries of owners have opened as small, considered places to stay: three in Florence and one in Valletta. Palazzo hotels are hardly new. What feels fresh is the...
Casa Bonay Turns 10 | A Decade of Hospitality Built With Barcelona
When Casa Bonay opened in 2016, the hotel’s stretch of Gran Via wasn’t somewhere travellers went. It’s in a quiet corner of the Eixample Dret, inside a neoclassical building from 1869, and at the time the area had little to bring visitors in. Ten years on, the...
Black Book
Our curated global directory of independent hotels and stays worth knowing about — places chosen for their character, sense of place and the experience they offer.
SELECTED COLLABORATIONS
La Sultana, Marrakech
Social storytelling
A hosted dining experience at La Sultana, capturing its atmosphere and sense of place in the heart of Marrakech.
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The Magnolia Hotel
Hosted stay · Destination storytelling · Social content
A hosted stay in Quinta do Lago, exploring a quieter side of the Algarve through hotel and destination-led storytelling.
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Octant Vila Monte
Hosted stay · Hotel review · Social storytelling
An editorial stay at Octant Vila Monte, exploring its distinctly Algarvian approach to food, design and slow living.
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Work with us
We work selectively with independent hotels, destinations and brands that share our curiosity for thoughtful travel, considered design and a strong sense of place.
Hotel reviews · Destination storytelling · Sponsored editorial · Newsletter partnerships · Social storytelling · Black Book listings
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Behind Travel & Lust
Charleen Parkes
Founder
Travel & Lust was founded by Barcelona-based British marketing and communications leader Charleen Parkes, with a longstanding curiosity for travel, culture and the stories behind the places we stay.
What began as a personal search for more thoughtful ways to travel has grown into an independent editorial platform championing distinctive hotels, considered design and experiences with a genuine sense of place.