TravelWorldOnline – About us
TravelWorldOnline is an independent online magazine for gourmet travel, slow travel, and select wellness trips. Since 2001, we have been reporting on destinations, hotels, and experiences where time, flavor, and atmosphere are more important than speed and checklists. Our focus is on regions that are not just visited, but truly experienced – often off the beaten track and always with an eye toward regional culture and cuisine.
We see travel as an opportunity to get to know places in depth. We're not driven by ticking off tourist attractions, but by consciously experiencing landscapes, cities, people, and traditions. This is precisely what fuels our content on TravelWorldOnline.
What we mean by slow travel, gourmet travel and wellness
Slow travel stands for quality over quantity. Instead of trying to see as many places as possible in a short time, we stay longer in one region, talk to locals, learn about traditions, and take time to experience the culture and regional cuisine. This way of traveling allows insights that go beyond what's found in classic travel guides.
For us, culinary tours are trips where food, drink, and regional products are not just an afterthought, but an integral part of the travel decision. We report on wineries, cheese dairies, markets, inns, and culinary routes always in the context of the region in which they are located.
For us, wellness isn't an add-on, but a deliberate reason for travel. We are particularly interested in wellness hotels, thermal baths, and retreats where location, architecture, spa concept, and atmosphere harmonize perfectly. Our focus is on Austria and the Alpine region, but we also include other regions of Europe and the world in our reporting.
How we work
Our articles are based on our own travels, careful research, and editorial analysis. We don't report on places, hotels, and regions in isolation, but rather in the context of their use, surroundings, and target audience. Our goal is to provide readers with guidance for making informed travel decisions.
TravelWorldOnline is not an influencer channel, a deals portal, or a platform for undisclosed advertising. We do not publish purely PR texts or content lacking editorial relevance. Editorial independence forms the basis of our work and our business model.
How we understand visibility, why we focus on context rather than placement, why we don't offer rankings, and why we also say no, is described in more detail in a separate section.
Who is TravelWorldOnline for?
TravelWorldOnline This is aimed at travelers who want to travel consciously. It's for readers who don't just want to know where to stay, but why a place, a hotel, or a region is worth a visit. Our content appeals to people who don't just collect travel experiences, but want to experience them – with time, curiosity, and enjoyment.
What does TravelWorldOnline offer its readers?
TravelWorldOnline presents gourmet travel destinations and slow travel tips in articles, photos, and videos. There you'll find advice on how, where, and when to discover and experience these destinations for yourself. We also suggest activities that will enrich your travels without demanding peak physical or mental performance.
The holiday we recommend is relaxing and full of special impressions and wonderful experiences. TravelWorldOnline is aimed at travelers who have the time and leisure to truly enjoy a country during their journey through Europe and the world.
This magazine offers information about different countries and their people as well as their lifestyle, along with tips for a special boat trip, an easy hike, an atmospheric picnic or an interesting museum.
Why should you trust us?
Monika and Petar are experienced travelers who have spent their entire lives exploring the world, both professionally and personally. In this article, we introduce ourselves and our travel experiences in detail.
At TravelWorldOnline we write exclusively about travel destinations, trips, experiences and excursions that we have personally visited and done ourselves.
We have summarized here what editorial collaboration with TravelWorldOnline generally looks like.
Since we also want to keep you up to date with the latest information, and it is not possible to constantly revisit all our destinations, we sometimes contact specialists from the regions we have visited and ask them for current opinions.
When it comes to recipes, we also like to draw on the culinary expertise of chefs who are very familiar with the cuisine of their region. In our reviews of travel gear, we also share our own experiences. This is the only way we can provide you with detailed and honest information.
Who is behind TravelWorldOnline
Behind TravelWorldOnline are Monika and Petar Fuchs. Together, we have been traveling through Europe, North America, and other regions of the world for many years with the aim of not only documenting travel but also providing clear context.
Monika Fuchs is a travel journalist, travel writer, and travel blogger. She has been publishing on TravelWorldOnline since 2001. Her education and career combine cultural studies perspectives with decades of practical travel experience. Studies in art history, ethnology, American cultural history, and social and economic history have shaped her view of cultures and societies.
During a research year in British Columbia, she immersed herself in the lives of Canada's First Nations, which profoundly influenced her understanding of Indigenous cultures. Later, she worked for several years as an adventure guide for camping trips and as a tour leader for demanding expeditions. These activities took her to nearly every continent and laid the foundation for her current work as a journalist.
As a freelance travel journalist, her articles appeared in publications including DIE ZEIT, 360° Canada, 360° USA, and touristik aktuell. In parallel, she developed TravelWorldOnline into one of the leading magazines for gourmet travel and slow travel in German-speaking countries.
Petar Fuchs has been with TravelWorldOnline since 2005 as a videographer, cameraman, and technical expert. He documents our travels in videos that show places and experiences exactly as we experienced them – calmly, authentically, and without staging. In addition to his work behind the camera, he is responsible for TravelWorldOnline's technology and accounting. As an enthusiastic amateur chef, he also contributes his culinary interests to our gourmet travel coverage.
Our travel styles and thematic focuses
Together we explore Europe, North America and other regions using different travel styles: camping and motorhome trips, road trips, houseboat and river cruises, culinary trips, wellness stays and cultural trips with close contact to locals.
A special focus is placed on culinary routes, wellness hotels, thermal baths, and regions where cuisine, landscape, and lifestyle are closely intertwined. Through long-standing collaborations with culinary regions, wellness hotels, and tourism partners – particularly in Austria and Germany – we have been able to further deepen our knowledge in these areas.
Monika Fuchs
Highlights
- Lifelong travel experience, with 38 years of specialization as a tour guide, travel blogger, travel journalist and travel author
- Study of the
- Art history
- Ethnology and anthropology
- American cultural history with a research year with Canadian First Nations in British Columbia
- Social and economic history with a focus on colonization and European economic history
- Long-term travel to destinations as a tour guide, travel blogger, travel journalist and travel guide author:
- Europe
- North America
- Africa
- South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Swaziland, Lesotho
- Australia
- Sydney, East Coast of Australia, Outback, and Southern Australia
- 7 years of experience as an adventure guide on camping trips and our personal motorhome trips form the basis for her Camping knowledge
- 10 years of experience as a study tour guide for exclusive trips and Trips to Savor
- Hotel knowledge, which is based on our personal experiences.
- Cities Guides, which are based on numerous stays.
- Itineraries, which are based on our personal experiences.
- Since 2001, travel blogger, travel journalist and travel author in the countries mentioned
Details
Even as a child, Monika traveled a lot with her parents. The world has fascinated her since she was a small child.
This was ultimately reflected in her choice of subjects: ethnology, American cultural history, social and economic history, and art history showed her different aspects of the world's cultures.
This fascination never left her. During her studies, she spent some time in North America, where she traveled through the USA and Canada – partly together with Petar – and spent a research year in British Columbia in Vancouver and Kamloops.
Interest in world cultures
During this year, she immersed herself in the world of the First Nations in Canada, researching both their current situation and their history.
During this stay, she gained experience in dealing with indigenous cultures. This later proved useful in her contacts with indigenous peoples, from the Aborigines of Australia to the cultures of sub-Saharan Africa.
This time strengthened her thirst for knowledge, which she continued for 6 years Adventure Guide for Rotel Tours and then for 11 years as Study tour guide for Studiosus Reisen tried to breastfeed all over the world.
Traveling as an adventure guide on different continents
As an adventure guide, she initially led camping trips that took her to remote regions such as Alaska, the Yukon, the Outback in Australia, the deserts of Namibia, and remote areas of South Africa and Botswana.
At the same time, their camping trips often took them to cities such as New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Miami, Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Quebec, Sydney, Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, and Windhoek.
This allowed her to become familiar with the highlights among the tourist attractions, which include the entire USA, all of Canada, Australia, all of southern Africa, as well as European countries such as Spain and Portugal.
Travel planning
During these trips, her tasks included compiling concise travel itineraries with points of interest and activities, and giving presentations and guided tours about them. She was also always on the lookout for new experiences.
She placed great importance on helping her guests get to know the countries better. At the same time, she organized campsites for overnight stays. Upon arrival at the camps, she also participated in the daily life of the campers.
This included shopping for food and equipment for the vehicles, camping even in remote regions of the world, and outdoor cooking and grilling at campsites.
Monika Fuchs as a study tour guide on trips for high demands
As a study tour leader, Monika's approach to leading tours changed. Studiosus offers group tours for a clientele with high expectations regarding accommodations, experiences, and in-depth knowledge.
On these trips, which took her to the same countries and regions as mentioned above, she stayed in luxury hotels, organized gourmet dinners in select restaurants, and led city, nature, and adventure tours, covering distances by ship, small plane, bus, and off-road vehicle.
Monika's task was to plan the routes in detail and to discover experiences that would bring her guests closer to the country and its people.
What lies beyond the horizon?
Monika constantly expanded her travel destinations, but curiosity still gnawed at her: "What lies beyond the horizon? What else is there to discover in this city? Which people are interesting here? What do people eat in this region?"
She now seeks answers to these questions as a freelance travel journalist (her articles have appeared in publications including DIE ZEIT, 360° Canada, 360° USA, etc.). travel writer and travel blogger on TravelWorldOnline answers in many countries around the world.
Petar Fuchs
Highlights
- Videographer, documentary filmmaker and cameraman
- technician
- Enthusiastic amateur chef who improves his cooking skills on cooking courses with renowned chefs
- Collector and cook of Recipes from different regions of the world
That was in 2001. Since then, Monika has published this magazine and is active on various social media platforms, the most important of which are listed below.
Videos that show the world as it is
Since 2005, she has been traveling together with her husband Petar, who has rediscovered his experience as a cameraman from earlier years and Videos contributes to the blogs and websites of both.
He is a passionate videographer and is constantly perfecting his camera work and editing the videos he films himself. He places particular emphasis on showing the places and experiences exactly as we experienced them.
Authenticity and honest reporting are his guiding principles. Petar also works behind the scenes, handling the technology and accounting that power TravelWorldOnline.
Our travel styles and thematic focuses
Together we explore Europe, North America and other regions using different travel styles: camping and motorhome trips, road trips, houseboat and river cruises, culinary trips, wellness stays and cultural trips with close contact to locals.
A special focus is placed on culinary routes, wellness hotels, thermal baths, and regions where cuisine, landscape, and lifestyle are closely intertwined. Through long-standing collaborations with culinary regions, wellness hotels, and tourism partners – particularly in Austria and Germany – we have been able to further deepen our knowledge in these areas.
Culinary experiences as part of our research
Culinary arts play a central role in our work. Even during her time as a study tour leader, Monika placed great importance on incorporating high-quality restaurants and regional specialties into the trips. Both she and Monika participated in cooking courses with renowned chefs, collected recipes on site, and developed their own culinary archive.
Today, in a dedicated section, we present recipes from around the world, often directly from chefs we've met on our travels. This is complemented by reports on markets, farm shops, small manufacturers, and producers.
Questions and answers about our culinary and gourmet tours
Will you be presenting specific recipes?
Yes. In a dedicated "Recipes" section, we share regional specialties from around the world, which we often learned about directly from local chefs.
How do you choose restaurants and manufacturers?
We value authenticity, regional products, and behind-the-scenes glimpses. We preferentially feature small producers and restaurants that offer insights into the local culture.
Are your gourmet tips suitable for every budget?
In addition to upscale and luxurious culinary experiences, our slow-travel philosophy also includes picnics with regional products, markets and inns with good cuisine at affordable prices.
Questions and answers about hotels & travel planning
What types of hotels do you recommend?
We focus on accommodations with character: luxurious suites, small boutique hotels, wellness resorts, and special overnight options such as fincas in Tenerife or pitches for motorhomes.
Do you offer booking services?
We are a travel magazine, not a tour operator. However, through selected partners, we link directly to booking options for hotels, campervans, flights, and rental cars, relevant to the trips featured on the blog.
Where can I find your travel itineraries?
You can find our routes in the "Destinations" and "Culinary Routes" sections. They are based on our own road trips and journeys through Europe, America, and other regions.
Questions and answers about our practical tips & equipment
Do you recommend any equipment for travel?
Yes. In our shop and in special articles, we present equipment that we use ourselves, for example Dutch ovens for camping, winter boots for wide feet, or accessories for motorhomes.
What is the "World Travel App"?
The World Travel App is a tool that transforms our articles into interactive, offline-usable city tours. This allows you to spontaneously discover nearby attractions while on the go.
Is your content also available in English?
Yes. A large part of the magazine is also available in English to introduce slow travel in Europe and America to international travelers.
Trust and up-to-dateness
Since it's impossible to constantly revisit all destinations, we also consult experts from the regions we've visited. This allows us to keep our content up-to-date without relinquishing editorial control. Similarly, our equipment tests and product recommendations are based solely on our own experiences.
Cooperation and collaboration
TravelWorldOnline collaborates editorially with selected partners. We explain how we generally classify and implement collaborations in our section on... editorial collaboration. How we select and editorially review wellness hotels, we have described separately.
We only publish guest posts if they share our slow travel philosophy and are clearly marked.
TravelWorldOnline – About us
Blog and Vlog:
Social Media:
- TravelWorldOnline on Facebook
- Monika Fuchs on Facebook
- YouTube
- Mastodon
- Bluesky
- TikTok
Awards and publications
TravelWorldOnline has been one of the leading travel portals in the German-speaking world for many years. Monika Fuchs has been repeatedly voted one of the most relevant travel bloggers and travel journalists. The English version of our Newfoundland guide ranked among the top 25 Newfoundland blogs on FeedSpot in 2023.
In addition to TravelWorldOnline, Monika Fuchs publishes articles in online and print media as well as travel guides. Petar's videos appear on external platforms in addition to our own channel.
- With the travel blog TravelWorldOnline, Monika Fuchs is among the 50 most relevant bloggers in Germany
- www.travelworldonline.de is among the Top 5 travel blogs in Germany on the subject of food & wellness
- We were selected as #AltmarkBlogger 2017 by the Leader Region “Uchte-Tanger-Elbe”
- # 7 Journalism Award 2019 Ireland
- Among the top 50 most relevant blogs 2020 and 2021
- Top 50 travel journalists 2021
- Ranked 6th in the Top 25 Newfoundland Bloggers 2023 from FeedSpot with the English version of our Newfoundland guide.
Further publications:
In addition to her blog, Monika publishes articles in DIE ZEIT ONLINE and the print magazines 360° Canada, 360° USA, touristik aktuell, MySpotlight Canada and MySpotlight USA. She writes guest posts for other blogs and websites such as Travianet, Neckermann Reisen, Expedia and Travador, and writes travel guides.
Petar's videos also appear on other websites such as Traveldudes and on our own video channel on YouTube.
If you want to find out more about us, you can do so in this Interview ...
How to work with TravelWorldOnline:
We are open to
- Individual press trips including content creation
- Production trips
- Video projects
- Content creation
- Advertorials
- Long-term content marketing campaigns
- Social media campaigns
What is important to us is cooperation on an equal footing that includes mutual appreciation.
conditions and price list
Mediakit (German) and Mediakit (English).
Imprint
Text TravelWorldOnline – About us: © Copyright Monika Fuchs and TravelWorldOnline
Photos TravelWorldOnline – About us: © Copyright Janett Schindler and part-time traveler
Videos and photos from TravelWorldOnline – About us: © Copyright Petar and Monika Fuchs and TravelWorldOnline