Welcome to the New IT

IT’s back. Back with a new look, a new focus, and a new name to match. The blog that was launched as Inside Traveler stays IT. But now IT means something that’s truer to what we care most about: Intelligent Travel.

What does “Intelligent Travel” mean? We think it's about exploring the intersection of authentic and sustainable travel. We want to showcase the essence of place, what's unique and original, what locals cherish most about where they live. And we want to highlight places, practices, and people that are on the front lines of sustainable travel—travel that preserves places’ essential uniqueness for future generations.

Our new mission is rooted in what the National Geographic Society stands for: inspiring people to care about the planet. Traveler and IT also want you to experience and enjoy the planet. And now we’ll help you journey with greater sensitivity to the impact your trip has on a place and its inhabitants.

Sometimes we'll celebrate, sometimes we'll criticize. But we'll always try to heighten awareness about what's really important about travel: finding great places, experiencing them fully, and leaving them no worse for your visit.

Intelligent Travel will pursue this new mission with a full bag of tricks both old and new. We’re keeping the things you loved about the original IT (great writing, reports from Traveler staff and contributors, reader input) and adding a ton of things you (and we) have wanted for a while: photos, comments, thematic and geographic categories, our very own RSS feed, a search engine, and a pretty logo.

We’re excited to get the ball rolling, but we don’t want to do this alone. The new IT wants your thoughts, ideas, reactions, and, most important, your experiences. Let’s get IT started!

Comments

[Stacy]

Congratulations on the new blog! It was a great move; the RSS feed works much better than the old one, and the blog is easier to navigate. I can't wait to see what else you have for us.

[Amanda]

Hey there IT gurus!

Just wanted to say we think the new green and orange color scheme is pretty rad...we're excited to see what other cool changes you have in store for us. Keep up the great writing and content!

xo,

The Lost Girls

[ianmack]

congrats! i'm looking forward to the new direction and content.

[Sheila at Family Travel]

Hi, I'd like to subscribe to your RSS feed (which needs a big RSS feed button moved to the top of your site, I think) but when I click "Subscribe" I get a pop-up box that tells me it's an index.rdf type of file.

It asks if I want to save it or find a program to open it. Since I can't see the point of saving it, I tell it to find a program, which then opens another Microsoft window and tells me they can't find a program to open it.

I've seen this same thing on another Typepad blog, and if RSS signup isn't easy, people tend to give up and leave.

Love the print mag and want to see the blog do well....

[Emily]

Hi Sheila--

Thanks for your note and for your words of encouragement!

As for the RSS: You can get the feed URL without viewing the file directly by right clicking on the "Subscribe to this blog's feed" link from your sidebar and copying the URL. Then it can be pasted into an aggregator or a site that utilizes your feed.

To offer an additional way for our readers to subscribe to our RSS, we plan to connect our blog with Feedburner in the near future.

Hope this helps!