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With over 50,000 members across 80 countries and hundreds of cities worldwide, Matador is a leading independent travel community and increasingly relevant media network.

Below you’ll find articles on a community in a constant state of progression. This includes contest winners, information about our new media school, MatadorU, profiles of community members and friends, and also reports from ground level events around the world.

If you could go anywhere in the world, where would it be? What if you could go everywhere?
We’ll be sending one of our talented readers on an all-expenses-paid, 10-day trip to...
"Packaged experiences make for packaged content." ~ Ross Borden on press trips
The best type of ideas give people permission to act on what they already know.
The dreamers and free thinkers are often those whose stories are quieter.
Submit your answer for a chance to win your "dream trip."
2012 revisited through the time-lapse photography of Ambassaor Yancy Caldwell.
When I first saw this I was drop-kicked in the face by nostalgia and a kinky fondness.
Free workshop series on travel writing, photography, and filmmaking in NYC.
If you've traveled enough, you've likely gotten into trouble.
Win the chance to see polar bears in their natural arctic habitat.
Tell us your travel horror story and win free Gerber gear.
You need to be spending money on the trip. Not on the gear to do the trip.
Matador is stoked to announce our participation in the newest Google app.
Come join Matador and Hostelling International this Friday in LA to learn and party!
Buy a Cambodian scarf, help empower women artisans and young students.
Trailer for "In the Dream Factory", the new movie from Teton Gravity Research.
Lori Henry traveled across Canada for 4 years learning traditional dances.
In1970, rock legends took part in a cross-Canada train ride.