Erin Holmes is an award-winning travel content creator, speaker, and digital marketing expert with more than a decade of experience building online communities, creating high-performing content, and helping brands connect with audiences through authentic storytelling.

Since launching her first travel blog in 2012, Erin has built a successful career in the digital space, growing her original travel blog to more than 180,000 monthly pageviews before launching her second travel platform and growing it from 2,000 to more than 40,000 monthly readers in 6 months. Her experience spans SEO, content strategy, social media, influencer marketing, and building sustainable online businesses.

Having travelled to more than 82 countries, Erin combines firsthand travel experience with a strong marketing background, holding a degree in Marketing and Public Relations. She shares practical strategies that help creators, entrepreneurs, and brands understand how to create meaningful content, grow engaged audiences, and turn storytelling into business opportunities.

Erin’s expertise and engaging communication style have seen her featured across international and national media, including Forbes, Bloomberg, Business Insider, Lonely Planet, the Sydney Morning Herald, national television, radio, and popular podcasts. She has spoken at leading industry events including the New York Times Travel Show, Women in Travel Summit, and TBEX.

Known for her energetic and relatable presentations, Erin inspires audiences with real-world experience, actionable strategies, and insights gained from more than a decade of successfully navigating the ever-changing digital landscape.

TBEX Kazakhstan (August 2026)

I was honoured to speak at the TBEX Conference, the world’s largest conference and community for travel creators, bloggers, influencers, and destination marketing professionals. Having first attended TBEX in 2013, the opportunity to return as a speaker was a true full-circle moment and a reflection of the growth of my career over more than a decade in the travel industry.

Drawing on years of experience in travel content creation and digital marketing, I shared the strategies that helped me grow my second travel blog from 2,000 to more than 40,000 monthly readers in 6 months! My presentation focused on practical, proven techniques for growing an audience, creating content that performs, and building a sustainable brand. Speaking at TBEX allowed me to inspire fellow creators with real-world insights and actionable strategies they could implement in their own businesses.

Main Session: Blogging in 2026. What still works.

Dear Alyne Retreat (October 2019)

Alyne Tamir is the creator of “Dear Alyne”, a brand and content creation company with over 2 million amazing followers from around the world, and over 200 Million views in the last 2 years. The Dear Alyne Retreat was a gathering of females in Ubud, Bali wanting to learn everything they could about video editing and blogging.

Main Session: How I built the world’s best family travel blog, lost it, and started again

Panel: Brands & Blogger Partnerships

“We met Erin Holmes, from the blog Explore with Erin. She Told us her touching story about how she went from having a successful family travel blog, to losing everything and having to start over again. It was very insightful.” Iris

“Thank you so much for coming. Your story was so beautiful I was practically crying the whole time. And so inspired. Thank you for coming.” Dear Alyne

Women In Travel Summit (March 2016)

The Women in Travel Summit is the premier event for women travel influencers and industry members.

Main Session: Securing an Unbeatable Sponsorship Deal

Panel: Brands & Bloggers Working Together

Panel: Yes, You Can be a Mom (and Travel the World)! 

Mentoring sessions were sold in half hour slots. Erin sold out in the first few days and ended up doing 8 out of 5 available ones, using her own time to meet with women who wanted to learn.

“It was an absolute delight to have Erin speak at the Women in Travel Summit 2016. Not only did she did a great job engaging our audience, but she was incredibly genuine, honest and helpful — everything you could ask for in organizing a noteworthy conference. I highly recommend her for any event, big or small!” Beth Santos, Founder and CEO

New York Times Travel Show (January 2016)

Presented a seminar on “How To Work With Travel Bloggers”.

Attendance at the 2016 The New York Times Travel Show was the highest in nine years and the second most attended New York Times Travel Show ever! 

Overall attendance:  29,050

Consumer attendance:  20,750

Trade attendance:  8,300

Exhibitors:  more than 525 exhibitors, 110 made their debut in 2016

Media:  Approximately 900 members of the media attended

“It was so great to meet you at the New York Times Travel Show! I really enjoyed the presentation and you gave some great insight on working with bloggers. I would love the opportunity to partner with you to bring awareness about my program.” Libryia Jones

“I attended your talk on travel bloggers at the NYT Travel Show, and briefly had the opportunity to introduce myself after the session. I wanted to send you an email letting you know how much I enjoyed your talk. The information you shared and the insight you provided was extremely useful, not only from a business perspective, but a personal one as well.” Lauren Braman

“Glad we could meet at the NYTTS Friday.  Also I took copious notes and plan to utilize methods presented during the blogger presentation. Thank you.” Dave Saxe

ProBlogger Melbourne Event (March 2015)

In the early years of my blogging journey, ProBlogger was one of the most influential resources shaping the blogging industry. Founded by Australian blogger Darren Rowse in 2004, ProBlogger became the go-to platform for aspiring and professional bloggers seeking to grow an audience, create better content, improve SEO, and turn blogging into a sustainable business.

As someone who started blogging in 2012, I was part of the generation of creators who learned from the foundations laid by platforms like ProBlogger. The lessons, strategies, and community around professional blogging helped shape the way I approached content creation, audience growth, and building a business online.

Main Session: Facebook died. Which platform now?

“Erin Bender from Travel With Bender also talked about Facebook, and its decreasing ROI for bloggers, and gave some great tips on which social platforms to focus on based on your strengths, your audience, and using your analytics.” Darren Rowse