Ajay Sood (Travelure) – Pro Travel Photographer

Speaker at TBEX

2018 Photoblogger of the Year

Last Stop: Ostrava/Kutna Hora/Prague/Vienna/Budapest

About Travelure

The website Travelure started in May 2015. It began as an aggregation of Ajay Sood’s articles published in travel, in-flight, and photography publications like Condé Nast Traveller, Huffington Post, JetWings, Travel3Sixty°, Smart Photography, Taj Magazine, GoGetter, etc. Travelure simply means building a lure of travel among its readers.

Along the way, ‘Travelure‘ began featuring in numerous ‘Top Bloggers’ lists. Notable amongst them were ‘Thrillophilia’, ‘Holidify’, ‘Indian Top Blogs’, etc. Recently, ‘Travelure‘ was declared the 2018 winner of the Best PhotoBlog Award by Gujarat Tourism and Innovative Council of Indian Tourism (ICIT).

In 2015, ‘Travelure’ also won Cox & Kings’ #GrabYourDream Contest – India’s biggest travel blogging contest. It had whopping participation from over 15,000 Indian bloggers and digital content creators.

In the short period of its existence, ‘Travelure’ has inspired a large number of readers. Over 1600 comments by these readers in about 40 months go to show that. ‘Travelure’ has a strong presence as a blog, thanks to some stunning travel photography that makes destinations desirable.

About Ajay Sood

Ajay Sood runs Travelure. He is a Getty Photographer and the 2016 winner of OSM (Outlook Social Media) Photographer of the Year by Outlook Magazine. Prior to his travel photography inning, he has worked for 27 years with numerous reputed advertising agencies like Ogilvy, Lowe (earlier Lintas), Contract, Rediffusion, etc.

Besides running ‘Travelure’, Ajay, a self-taught photographer, physically shares his photography learning across the globe in travel media conferences like TBEX Europe 2016 (Stockholm), TBEX Asia 2016 (Manila), TBEX International 2017 (Jerusalem), and TBEX North America 2017 (Huntsville, AL). He recently spoke on ‘The 7 Deadly Sins of Travel Photography’ at TBEX Europe 2018 (Ostrava, Czech Republic). Some of this learning is also shared by him on ‘Travelure’.

Ibn Battuta’s famous saying – ‘Travelling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller’ aptly describes his journey. He has travelled to over 40 countries to tell stories that inspire, guide, and provide answers to travellers. Many of these travel enthusiasts have acknowledged they visit ‘Travelure‘ to expand their travel bucket list.