Culture Odyssey

Who we are?

Culture Odyssey is an independent, cultural and non political online community and resource for both the active and virtual traveller. We strive to highlight global culture from the past and present into the future and aim to open new paths and connections by uniting people, places and organisations.

Our aim

Culture Odyssey's vision is to be the most current, interactive and vibrant online community for the heritage, cultural and tourism sectors. Our aim is to become the most trusted online network for global cultural experience and information and to give local organisations a global voice to engage a new worldwide audience for their work.

Sustainability

Culture Odyssey supports all aspects of environmental sustainability and works hard to positively influence our associates, our advertisers and our users to manage activities in a sustainable way causing least damage to our environment.

We believe that Sustainability is about making a positive difference to our employees, advertisers and users by: 


• Respecting the environment and local culture.
• Making purchases to support the local economy.
• Recognising the importance of precious and finite resources like water and energy and ensuring that these are not wasted.
• Helping to protect wildlife, both flora and fauna, particularly where endangered.
Employing 'Best Practice' in the reduction of waste by recycling and regenerating wherever possible.
• Conserving our heritage for future generations.
• Encouraging sustainable design, artwork and technology.
• Supporting the sustainable operation of hotels at home and abroad.

What is Culture Odyssey?

We define it as a long and eventful voyage of discovery in search of excellence in the arts, places, experiences and peoples of the world, past, present and future.
Tell me more?

Culture Odyssey is a brand new travel and tourism site, for you to record your inspirations, news and pictures for others to share. Unlike other sites, we are not interested in telling you where to go and what to see, we want you to tell us, so that Culture Odyssey stays the most updated, user driven travel and tourism resource on the web!

Getting started

It's easy to get started, click on JOIN US and fill in your profile page. Once you have activated your ID begin to upload your news, events, articles and inspirations with accompanying pictures, videos and links. We have 200+ country pages which have lots of relevant travel information to help when planning your next trip.

Why advertise?

Advertising on Cultureodyssey.com gives you unprecedented access to an active online population of discerning travellers and travel commentators. We are the newest and fastest growing social network for the worldwide travel & tourism community. 

We specialise in conventional web banner placement and bespoke campaigns alike. Whether you represent a hotelier, tour operator or local service, our advertising packages are designed to drive traffic to your website. 

Vital statistics

We are very new to Google Analytics but our page impressions hit 7645 for the week from 30 July to 5 August with 4518 unique visitors for the same period - that's almost 20,000 for the month from 106 countries

Source: Google Ads

Advertisement Specifications

Standard media


Small portrait - 225 x 485 pixels max

Large landscape - 975 x 225 pixels max

Plan-It Eco

With no secretary, no support staff this company of one person runs a number of annual trips to the Amazon rainforest for teachers, people working in different aspect of education and members of the business and media community. Plan-It Eco also assists schools in sending students out to the Amazon rainforest on educational trips. These trips bring many aspects of the national curriculum to life often with life changing results for those taking part.

Phil Williams is regularly invited to be guest speaker at conferences and to run seminars on sustainability and the environment, cultural respect and human impacting as well as teacher training workshops on ESDGC. (ESD) (SDE).

Through Plan-It Eco he also works with members of the business community to develop and promote environmentally friendly and sustainable business practices designing and running surveys, audits, workshops and seminars. In schools and colleges he has approximately a 90% rebooking rate. Some schools/colleges have booked Plan-It Eco every year since it started in 1997.

Many local authorities throughout the UK have hired the services of Plan-It Eco plus organisations such as: Humberside Education Business Partnership (EBP), Countryside Council for Wales, The Environment Centre, SETPOINT(Herts), Petroplus Refining and Marketing Ltd, GOAL, Careers Wales, Rainforest Concern, Rotary International, WWF for Nature (UK), BP and BP Education, , Scout and Guide groups, Multi Faith Organisations, Educational Organisations, Teacher Training Groups and the Welsh Assembly Government for Wales.

Local authorities include: Spelthorne Borough Council, Dacorum Borough Council, Hounslow Council, Neath Port Talbot Borough Council, Belfast City Council, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Caerphilly County Borough Council, Edinburgh City Council, Watford Borough Council.