100 Best Travel YouTubers

The biggest travel channel on the platform by a wide margin. Curious, irreverent, goes to places Spanish-language TV won't.

Planning the trip? Our guide to Mexico City.

Cinematic Arabic-language travel documentaries. Production values closer to broadcast than to vlogging.

Investigative documentaries from places most crews cannot reach — 75 countries across six continents. Produced at a scale closer to a broadcaster than a channel.

Planning the trip? Our guide to Istanbul.

Sonny Side's stated mission is food from all 195 countries; he's 61 in. Excellent on rural food economies, weakest when it chases shock value.

Beach and holiday-destination content at enormous volume — 17,000 videos. Reach is real; treat it as inspiration, not planning.

Planning the trip? Our guide to Istanbul.

The most influential food-travel channel there is. Street-food-first, genuinely respectful of vendors, and consistent for over a decade.

Planning the trip? Our guide to Bangkok.

Discomfort-as-philosophy. Superb storytelling, but it's a channel about the crew's transformation more than about the places.

Korean creator making Thai-language travel and food content across Southeast Asia.

Planning the trip? Our guide to Seoul.

Self-described family travel YouTuber; very high upload cadence for a Thai audience.

Planning the trip? Our guide to Bangkok.

Visited every country and built the format around the people in them. Formulaic by now, but the access is unmatched.

The best Western guide to regional Chinese food on YouTube. Upload pace has slowed to a crawl.

Ukraine's biggest travel creator. Thoughtful, well-shot, and only 97 videos — he publishes when he has something.

Abandoned places and trespass-adjacent exploration. Entertaining; not a planning resource.

Vietnam's best-known solo travel vlogger, with a running gag about being the poorest one. Polarising, widely watched.

Punjabi motovlogging across India and the Himalaya at a near-daily pace, 2,200 videos deep and still riding.

Post-Soviet backroads and unglamorous places, in Russian, with real curiosity. The most imitated style on travel YouTube.

Planning the trip? Our guide to London.

100+ countries and still uploading almost daily. The most reliable clock in travel YouTube; low on depth, high on logistics.

Thrill rides, extreme hotels and record-breaking attractions. Squarely a spectacle channel.

Planning the trip? Our guide to the fastest roller coasters.

Goes into communities most outlets caricature — Appalachia, Detroit, the Navajo Nation, Iran — and mostly just listens. Among the best interviewers here.

Mikey Chen's food travel, heavy on Asia. Infectious enthusiasm, thin on context.

Family travel and adventure vlogs at a high cadence.

Walks through neighbourhoods most vloggers avoid, camera out. Divisive, and the risk-courting is the point.

Mexican documentarian who has filmed in conflict zones and closed countries. Serious work in Spanish.

Planning the trip? Our guide to Mexico City.

India's biggest motovlogger. As much daily-life vlog as travel now, but the riding films still land.

Large Gulf-audience travel and challenge channel.

The aviation channel airlines actually court. Unbeatable access to first class and factory floors; correspondingly soft on criticism.

Planning the trip? Our guide to Dubai.

Promises 'the truth about travel' and mostly delivers — practical, unglossy Spanish-language guides.

Planning the trip? Our guide to Mexico City.

Arabic-language travel with an explicit humanist framing: travel to get closer to people than politics allows.

Long-running independent travel vlogs, heavy on South and Southeast Asia.

Planning the trip? Our guide to London.

High-volume Turkish travel channel — thousands of videos, daily cadence.

Planning the trip? Our guide to Istanbul.

The 'day in the life' format, done better than anyone. His Tokyo guides are genuinely usable on the ground.

Planning the trip? Our guide to Tokyo.

Korean creator making Indonesian-language culture and food content.

Anmol Jaiswal's budget backpacking across India and beyond, at near-daily pace.

Gentle, well-shot Vietnamese food and culture travel. One of the country's most-liked creators.

The travel channel of India's biggest political explainer, run with his wife. Calmer than the main channel.

Large Moroccan travel vlog. Note: no upload in about a year — check before relying on it.

Travels with his grandmother, which is exactly as charming as it sounds.

Planning the trip? Our guide to Madrid.

Noraly has ridden 190,000km solo. The best pure overland-motorcycle series running — episodic, unhurried, quietly tough.

Planning the trip? Our guide to Amsterdam.

History, heritage and landscape across Bangladesh and beyond. Bengali-language, unusually substantive.

Chris Broad has become the default English voice on Japan. Funny, and his long-form documentaries are the channel's best work.

Planning the trip? Our guide to Tokyo.

Left a village in Bihar in 2017 and hasn't stopped. Hitchhiking and low-budget travel, in Hindi.

Hindi-speaking New Zealander in Delhi. The most practical English-language channel on travelling India — visas, scams, logistics.

Mike Corey chases rituals and festivals most crews won't film. Strong on the anthropology, light on the how-to.

'Professional idiot completing side missions.' Absurdist challenge travel — funnier and better-made than the genre usually is.

Planning the trip? Our guide to London.

Venezuelan traveller with a good eye for the political texture of a place.

Street food and gourmet food, shot beautifully, almost no talking. Pure atmosphere.

Norwegian who walks into difficult places with a camera and a lot of warmth. Same lineage as Bald and Bankrupt.

Quit-your-job travel filmmaking, heavy on Bali and Southeast Asia. As much about the creator business as the destinations now.

Planning the trip? Our guide to Vancouver.

Travel documentaries in Hindi with a conservation and storytelling bent. A cut above the Indian vlog norm.

Challenge travel — cheapest flights, hardest borders, strangest stays. Built entirely from a phone at the start.

Planning the trip? Our guide to London.

The elder statesman. Public-TV Europe with no hype, updated constantly, and still the most trustworthy planning source on this list.

Planning the trip? Our guide to Rome.

Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq — 'the human side of what we read in the headlines.' Careful and unsensational.

Harish Bali's food-and-destination films. Meticulous on prices and directions — genuinely useful for planning in India.

Explicitly out to change the narrative on Africa, and does it by showing ordinary competence and enterprise. Important channel.

The channel that made sailing YouTube mainstream. Now a family circumnavigation.

A defining voice of the 2014 daily-vlog era, since rebuilt around eco-living and vanlife. Slower now.

Planning the trip? Our guide to London.

Built an audience on Yemen, Pakistan and Saudi before anyone else filmed there. Genuinely intrepid.

Planning the trip? Our guide to Warsaw.

Steady, likeable country-by-country travel with a good instinct for unglamorous places.

Planning the trip? Our guide to London.

Janek and Honza expose Prague's scams and taxi rip-offs on camera. The best single-city public-service channel on YouTube.

Planning the trip? Our guide to Prague.

Calm, researched explainers on how daily life actually works in Japan. Closer to journalism than vlogging.

Planning the trip? Our guide to Tokyo.

Chopstick Travel — culinary traditions taken seriously, especially across Asia.

Slow, quiet solo journeys across Japan. The journey itself is the subject.

Planning the trip? Our guide to Tokyo.

The most respectful and best-researched abandoned-places channel — history first, no vandalism, no shrieking.

The original sell-everything family travel brand. Polished and heavily sponsored; good for destination ideas, not budgets.

Not a travel vlog — an argument about why Dutch cities work. It will change how you read every city you visit.

Planning the trip? Our guide to Amsterdam.

Premium cabins and first-class suites, reviewed by someone who mostly pays. Aspirational but honest.

Planning the trip? Our guide to the biggest airport terminals.

Enormous back catalogue — 4,100 videos — of city-by-city food tours. Breadth over depth, but the coverage is unrivalled.

Sam Kolder essentially invented the modern travel-edit aesthetic. Rare uploads, heavy influence.

Planning the trip? Our guide to Vancouver.

Softly shot slow travel and van life. Comfortable rather than adventurous, and deliberately so.

Planning the trip? Our guide to Toronto.

Cinematic films on African cities and the cost of living in them. Excellent on Lagos, Nairobi and Accra.

Full-time travelling family, consistent for years. Practical about the realities of moving kids around.

Mike Downie doesn't rush or over-edit; his videos are basically quiet conversations with strangers. Underrated.

Planning the trip? Our guide to Toronto.

Long journeys across America with an eye for the gaps between how places are described and how they are.

Norm digs out the Japan that guidebooks miss — tiny apartments, thrift shops, shamisen. Warm and specific.

Planning the trip? Our guide to Tokyo.

Blunt 'what you'll hate about X' advice, 3,200 videos deep. Unglamorous and consistently the most useful pre-trip watch.

Self-funded flight reviews — which is exactly why they're worth more than the sponsored kind. 200+ premium products flown.

Planning the trip? Our guide to the busiest airports on earth.

A competitive game played across real transit networks. Not a guide, but the best pure entertainment on travel YouTube.

Planning the trip? Our guide to the busiest train stations.

Adventure and endurance travel films, well shot.

Planning the trip? Our guide to London.

Jeb and Suzanne Brooks on flying and points. Even-handed and clearly explained.

Planning the trip? Our guide to the busiest airports on earth.

Fifteen years of a genuine circumnavigation. The most substantial body of work in sailing YouTube.

250+ airlines flown and he'll say plainly when one is bad — which has got him banned. The honest counterweight to Sam Chui.

Planning the trip? Our guide to Berlin.

Micro-adventures made into small films: run a canal, eat only what's in the shed. Singular, funny, quietly profound.

Moved from magic tricks to travel cinematography, and the craft shows.

Planning the trip? Our guide to Vancouver.

Minimalist, near-silent hiking films — long treks with almost no narration. The antidote to shouty travel content.

Ten seasons of sailing with dogs aboard. Lighter than Delos, and knows it.

Youngest person to visit every country, at 21. The record is the story; the videos are the receipts.

Deliberately flies the worst airlines as well as the best. Dry, very British, genuinely informative.

Planning the trip? Our guide to the busiest airports on earth.

Has lived in a 1991 VW Westfalia since 2011, long before the hashtag. Honest about cold, breakdowns and the parts of van life nobody photographs.

RV to catamaran since 2011. Good on the unglamorous mechanics of nomadic life.

Eric and Allison hunt unusual places and food. Reliable mid-size couple channel.

'Places less travelled' — Afghanistan, Somalia, Papua. Low-key where the genre is usually loud.

A family of six who left corporate America for a catamaran. Strong on the family logistics of boat life.

One of the earliest travel vloggers, still shooting. Style over itinerary.

Planning the trip? Our guide to London.

Three decades and ninety countries of unpolished, unsponsored budget travel. No production gloss whatsoever — that's the appeal.

Poland's notable travel vlogger, self-described as addicted to it.

Planning the trip? Our guide to Warsaw.

Australian in Japan, focused on avoiding the crowds. Specific and well-researched.

Planning the trip? Our guide to Tokyo.

Gary Bembridge on cruising — planning, ships, and what the brochures leave out. The most rigorous cruise channel.

The original vanlife docuseries, long before the hashtag. Overlanding as long-form documentary.

A pioneer of the format with a big practical back catalogue. Note: roughly a year since the last upload.

Planning the trip? Our guide to Toronto.

Climbing and van-based adventure. Niche, but excellent within it.