Travel Dudes

A global community sharing first-hand travel tips, destination features and practical guides.

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Written By

Melvin Böcher and contributors

Travellers

Team

Focus

General

Popularity

42 / 100

Running Since

2004

Posts

1,710

Several a week

Last Updated

Oct 2026

About Travel Dudes

Travel Dudes is a traveller-run site founded by Melvin Böcher in 2004. It presents a community of contributors and a small editorial team who publish first-hand tips, destination guides and experience-led stories from around the world. The site has grown into a large resource with more than 1,700 posts and publishes several pieces every week, covering continents and many countries. Travel Dudes invites fellow travellers to contribute and aims to pair practical planning details with local flavour. Posts typically include original photography and long, image-rich features that mix history, attractions and practical information.

Think of Travel Dudes as a polished traveller collective that reads like a neighbourhood guidebook written by locals and long-term visitors. The writing in the Barcelona pastry piece is a good example - deep on history, heavy on practical tips, and arranged so you can plan a visit around a coffee. Long-form, image-rich features and eating and slow-travel itineraries are common, and the site stays busy with roughly a couple of new guides each week. We find it most useful for food-led city walks, relaxed itineraries and offbeat regional pieces where lived experience matters.