Hi! I'm Elena! Welcome to my travel blog Creativelena.com.
For me, it is all about “life-seeing instead of sightseeing”: Join me as I create, eat & live my way around the world. Curious?
*Check out my book, “The Creative Traveler’s Handbook”, for learning more about what we mean by creative travel. Travelling means the world to me, makes me fit for everday life and sometimes, I trust, also calmer on the inside. Read this blog with a smile, share what you love and remember to check back regularly: After all, when was the last time you did something for the first time?
Dear Michael! Today, we would like to know more about your work as a “digital influencer“. How important are community & networking for you, and where will the way still lead you both personally as well as in business? We are curious to know more! Thank you for taking part and answering my interview. Here we […]
ITB Berlin. Somehow, each and every year, it creeps up on you slowly, until it hits you again almost by surprise. For the ninth time this year, and ever since I’ve attended the world’s largest travel trade show, ITB Berlin, as a tourism student (and now a fully fledged, professional travel blogger), it has exuded a certain kind […]
Dear Melanie! Today, we would like to know more about your work as a “digital influencer“. How important are community & networking for you, and where will the way still lead you both personally as well as in business? We are curious to know more! Thank you for taking part and answering my interview. Here we […]
“When was the last time you did something for the first time?” A popular quote I always enjoy using in my presentations, the last time I did something for the first time was Wednesday, 18 January 2017. My first #NBEFinland conference, as well as my first-ever speech on how to move “from niche to business” in […]
The phone rings. It is a Wednesday evening. That is, three days ahead of the annual Austrian travel trade show “ReiseSalon” at the Palace of Schönbrunn, a truly beautiful venue for an equally unique conference. “Elena … Care to participate in our travel blogger slam still? We know it’s last minute but … we’d really appreciate your presence there.” Can’t […]
“Dear Elena. I told them I want you to speak at our cultural heritage tourism conference in Vicenza later this year. About the power of community building, digital communication strategies, and the use of Social Media. Why? Because I believe it is important – even, or especially, in the context of religious cultural heritage. I believe even the Vatican will […]
The World Travel Market, the world’s largest travel trade show after ITB Berlin, is held each year at the beginning of November in London. “Do you still go there, Elena?” Is it really worthwhile, some of my friends & fellow travel industry members are asking me after my fourth visit there this year. Well, yes. I do. What […]
#TBEXStockholm. “It’s a different way of doing things.” True that, dear Jaume Marin. 2016 has marked my third “Travel Bloggers Exchange” conference after participating in Dublin back in 2013 as well as #inCostaBrava last year. Every year, the world’s largest gathering of digital influencers and tourism industry people is held in a different European, American […]
“When was the last time you did something for the first time? And: How did it make you feel? I am interested in your very own, individual experiences …”, I encourage my participants in our two-day weekend seminar in Waidhofen an der Ybbs to share from their rich fundus of memories. More than once, I am […]
Veni vidi vici. I came, saw and won. Not quite like Cesar did, but much in the sense of conquering more (knowledge) terrain. Talking about cultural tourism management & digital communication skills … So much to be learned and developed still! The future is a bright place, my dear readers. Even, or especially, at a cooperative […]
