Founder of Make Travel Fair and Editor-in-Chief. I never need too much persuasion to up sticks and explore a new part of the world, although getting engaged last year means that it's not necessarily all about me anymore. My personal Blog can be found at stephen-chapman.com.
A combination of editor writings and carefully curated articles from around the web. Make Travel Fair was established in 2006 and has received multiple awards for its thoughtful approach towards travel and the way we experience the world... More
Make Travel Fair was established at the end of 2006 as an online platform to communicate some of the global issues associated with travel, to encourage education amongst travellers and to encourage travel as a means of education.
The future
The future for Make Travel Fair is uncertain. The original aim – to help drive a change in attitudes towards travel – has been achieved on many levels. Our understanding and approach to travel has transformed considerably in the last five years.
Make Travel Fair will always be about unleashing the potential of travel to educate, engage and inspire; about widening our view of what travel encompasses; and about embracing the road towards sustainability.
The world is changing rapidly. The role and form of all types of media is being transformed by new technologies, and the ever expanding social net that is permeating the internet. The existence of a humble website is no longer as influential as it once was, more time and energy is now required just to fight through the noise and to win readers.
The acquisition year of 2010
2010 was certainly one of the most exciting years so far for Make Travel Fair. An acquisition of site and skills by WHL Group promised a bright future, with great plans to develop a more commercially minded website through the addition of the group’s booking tools and travel product. Unfortunately with the driving force behind Make Travel Fair (Stephen Chapman) allocated to a slew of other WHL Group projects, Make Travel Fair was largely forced into hibernation whilst WHL Group’s own Blog continued to develop as ‘the Travel Word’. Unfortunately at the end of 2010 WHL Consulting (the group company that had acquired Make Travel Fair) was forced to fold and the Blog site left the company with its original owner.
Exciting collaborations for 2009
This year has seen us collaborate with The International Ecotourism Society on helping communicate and promote their new ecoDestinations project, and as of March this year Founder Stephen Chapman began some exciting work for whl.travel – one of the most exciting, pioneering and passionately grass roots orientated travel companies to appear in recent years (see WHL: Making Travel A Little Fairer By Design). He has worked in many areas of company – business development, SEO services, social media and tourism development in the field – and been involved in the restructuring to create WHL Group, together with brand creation and the rebranding of whl.travel. It is this work that enabled Make Travel Fair to continue its existence, development and independence during a tough period.
A return to the road for 2008 & a new website
Following a successful 2007 we decided to travel some more and recconect with everything we had been talking about online. A 6 month around the world trip took us to the U.S.A., The Cook Islands, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. The current website www.maketravelfair.co.uk was put together after we returned home and is designed using the common publishing platform of WordPress.
We believe that everyone has an interesting, important and unique view of the world as a result of their own childhood, culture and experience. Everyone has story to tell and writing is a great way to communicate that. The blogging bubble may have burst as a result of the paid, sponsored underworld involved in creating favourable blog content but our approach is squeaky clean – honest, unpaid writing that exists because we want it to. Also by writing about and linking to projects that we believe are taking the world in the right direction we are helping them move up the search engine rankings and become easier to find.
A successful, award winning 2007
It all started with a homemade website at www.maketravelfair.com built with very little knowledge of web design. It wasn’t ideal but a professional job would have cost the earth and we had no money. Winning ‘Best Online Education Website’ in the Travelmole 2007 Web Awards was a huge surprise given our very amateur ability but our message was strong and ethusiastic. Later that same year Founder – Stephen Chapman – was selected as ‘One-to-Watch in Travel & Leisure’ as part of Courvoisier The Future 500 Rising Stars and featured in The Observer newspaper supplement ‘The Future 500′.
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A combination of editor writings and carefully curated articles from around the web. Make Travel Fair was established in 2006 and has received multiple awards for its thoughtful approach towards travel and the way we experience the world... More
About Us
Make Travel Fair was established at the end of 2006 as an online platform to communicate some of the global issues associated with travel, to encourage education amongst travellers and to encourage travel as a means of education.
The future
The future for Make Travel Fair is uncertain. The original aim – to help drive a change in attitudes towards travel – has been achieved on many levels. Our understanding and approach to travel has transformed considerably in the last five years.
Make Travel Fair will always be about unleashing the potential of travel to educate, engage and inspire; about widening our view of what travel encompasses; and about embracing the road towards sustainability.
The world is changing rapidly. The role and form of all types of media is being transformed by new technologies, and the ever expanding social net that is permeating the internet. The existence of a humble website is no longer as influential as it once was, more time and energy is now required just to fight through the noise and to win readers.
The acquisition year of 2010
2010 was certainly one of the most exciting years so far for Make Travel Fair. An acquisition of site and skills by WHL Group promised a bright future, with great plans to develop a more commercially minded website through the addition of the group’s booking tools and travel product. Unfortunately with the driving force behind Make Travel Fair (Stephen Chapman) allocated to a slew of other WHL Group projects, Make Travel Fair was largely forced into hibernation whilst WHL Group’s own Blog continued to develop as ‘the Travel Word’. Unfortunately at the end of 2010 WHL Consulting (the group company that had acquired Make Travel Fair) was forced to fold and the Blog site left the company with its original owner.
Exciting collaborations for 2009
This year has seen us collaborate with The International Ecotourism Society on helping communicate and promote their new ecoDestinations project, and as of March this year Founder Stephen Chapman began some exciting work for whl.travel – one of the most exciting, pioneering and passionately grass roots orientated travel companies to appear in recent years (see WHL: Making Travel A Little Fairer By Design). He has worked in many areas of company – business development, SEO services, social media and tourism development in the field – and been involved in the restructuring to create WHL Group, together with brand creation and the rebranding of whl.travel. It is this work that enabled Make Travel Fair to continue its existence, development and independence during a tough period.
A return to the road for 2008 & a new website
Following a successful 2007 we decided to travel some more and recconect with everything we had been talking about online. A 6 month around the world trip took us to the U.S.A., The Cook Islands, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. The current website www.maketravelfair.co.uk was put together after we returned home and is designed using the common publishing platform of WordPress.
We believe that everyone has an interesting, important and unique view of the world as a result of their own childhood, culture and experience. Everyone has story to tell and writing is a great way to communicate that. The blogging bubble may have burst as a result of the paid, sponsored underworld involved in creating favourable blog content but our approach is squeaky clean – honest, unpaid writing that exists because we want it to. Also by writing about and linking to projects that we believe are taking the world in the right direction we are helping them move up the search engine rankings and become easier to find.
A successful, award winning 2007
It all started with a homemade website at www.maketravelfair.com built with very little knowledge of web design. It wasn’t ideal but a professional job would have cost the earth and we had no money. Winning ‘Best Online Education Website’ in the Travelmole 2007 Web Awards was a huge surprise given our very amateur ability but our message was strong and ethusiastic. Later that same year Founder – Stephen Chapman – was selected as ‘One-to-Watch in Travel & Leisure’ as part of Courvoisier The Future 500 Rising Stars and featured in The Observer newspaper supplement ‘The Future 500′.
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