Medium “Travel” tag statistics
How busy the Travel tag is, how stories perform there and where they get published. Competition is moderate, and the tag is tough for new writers.
Updated Oct 20, 2026 · based on 800 stories from the last 12.8 days
Busier than 41% of 73 tracked tags
18% of top stories are by writers with <100 followers
Competition and chances for new writers
With roughly 63 stories a day, Travel is busier than 41% of the 73 tags we track. Its reader-to-story ratio (70,725 followers per daily story) is higher than 75% of tags — more readers per story than average.
69% of stories here come from writers with fewer than 100 followers, and they account for 18% of the best-performing quarter of stories. 37% of stories are behind the paywall (Partner Program), and the average story takes 5.2 minutes to read.
Publications that publish Travel stories
| Publication | Followers | Travel stories (last 12.8d) |
|---|---|---|
| Globetrotters | 75K | 20 |
| True Travel Tales | 1.7K | 13 |
| Engage | 11K | 9 |
| Pen With Paper | 22K | 9 |
| ILLUMINATION | 327K | 8 |
| the Challenged | 2.3K | 7 |
| Stacker News | 6 | 6 |
| The Story Well | 552 | 6 |
| Cole’s Intrusive Thoughts | 1 | 6 |
| Digital Global Traveler | 5.3K | 6 |
Top Travel stories right now
- A Pleasant Afternoon at CityCentre Houston
- How to Enjoy a Trip Without Spending Too Much
- Why You Should Never Help Someone in the Airport.
- The Feeling of Being a Stranger Somewhere New
- Anywhere But There
- Aloha to Doha — The Botoxed Lips of the Middle East
- I Could Be A Vegetarian, but Never a Vegan
- We visit the village of Popeye the Sailor Man!
- A Day as a Soul? Not Staying Anymore!
- The Mountains Are Calling
FAQ
- How many stories are published in the Travel tag on Medium?
- About 63 per day (438 per week), based on 800 stories published in the 12.8-day window before our last scan. The tag has 358,137 stories in total.
- Is the Travel tag competitive?
- Competition is moderate: it is busier than 41% of the 73 tags we track. There are about 70,725 tag followers per new daily story.
- Can new writers succeed in Travel?
- 18% of the top-performing stories (top 25% by claps) came from writers with fewer than 100 followers, so the tag is tough for newcomers. 69% of all stories in the tag come from such writers.