We all know that finding the perfect gift can sometimes be tedious. So I decided to create the perfect Gift Guide for the traveler in your life (or for yourself!). Below are a few of my wish-lish items this year and a few things that I have and love. They are things that I would definitely consider useful for travel. Some are quite indulgent which is what make them nice gift ideas rather than essential travel items! Enjoy!
Feel free to send this someone’s way who *might* need a few hints this year….
What to buy for someone who loves to travel?
Travel Essentials
This is everything that a traveler needs for a trip! A kit that comes with a TSA Lock, a luggage scale, an international adapter, a Passport Cover, an Eye mask and Earplugs.
These are a lifesaver for ANY traveler! With 4 different sized cubes (XL,L,M &S) & a laundry bag this makes keeping organized while packing & traveling a breeze! Packing cubes not only keep your clothes organized they also keep the clutter in your suitcase at a minimum!
These are another lifesaver. Instead of constantly having to buy travel sized products, or not being able to find the products you want, these come to the rescue (and they save you money!). These are great because it comes with 16 different pieces, meaning you can find exactly what you need! And as an added bonus they’re TSA approved so you can bring them in your carryon! Or if you want a more simple set these
A neck pillow is ESSENTIAL for any flight. They make your flight instantly 100x more comfortable. This one is a memory Foam Pillow with a built-in removable insert so you can adjust the thickness of the pillow based on your personal preference and sitting positions!
This is another type of neck pillow that holds your head up and wraps around your neck. And as an added bonus it’s half the size!
A travel wrap is the best accessory (especially on a long flight). When traveling I always find the temperature fluctuating and a wrap is a great solution. It functions as a blanket, a sweater and a fashionable outfit!
There is absolutely nothing more important than a Passport for travelers. Especially for someone heading overseas. Keeping it safe and knowing where it is at all times, is crucial. Not only can they safely store their Passport (and look cute while doing it), it’s also perfect for storing cash, credit cards and boarding passes or tickets! (& as a bonus these covers are customizable!)
Another fun and stylish way to customize your stuff! These tags make it easier to spot your luggage at the airport. How many people have big black suitcases? Everyone… so this tag will help your bag to stand out from the rest!
If you are traveling in or out the US TSA is the lock you should use to avoid the security officers breaking up the lock. This high-security lock makes your valuables safe and prevents others putting things you don’t own in your bags.
This is a must have for backpackers staying at hostels or travelers in general. It is highly absorbent and dries incredibly fast compared to normal towels. This microfiber travel towel is very soft and comfortable to use.
Gone are the days of going over your checked bag limit and experiencing the embarrassment of repacking your over-weight baggage at check-in. Skip the stress and check out a digital Luggage Scale. The accurate and handy digital luggage scale can definitely save you from the unexpected bag fees.
This is the greatest way to fall asleep no matter where you are (but especially on planes and trains!) It has a dark lining, so it is completely pitch black when you put it on, and with special contouring, so no light gets in around the side and no pressure is on your eyes.
Travel electronics and gadget gifts
Good headphones are a great gift for anyone, but especially for travelers. Headphones are a must on any trip. Whether it’s a long flight or roaming around a new city, Bluetooth Headphones are a must for any trip! 
These are my favorite but there are a lot more to choose from on Amazon. From these top rated Bose wireless noise canceling headphones
Fujifilm Instax Mini 9 (Smokey White)
A great way to create and print memories on the go. Don’t forget some extra film
If you’re like me you’re constantly taking photos on your phone. With this handy tool you can print photos straight from your phone on this mini portable printer!
Not the most exciting of gifts, but definitely the most useful thing to bring on a trip! If you or your gift recipient are anything like me and find yourself constantly running out of battery then this is the perfect present. As travelers we use our phones for everything, it’s a map, a camera, a way to connect with people at home, and to listen to music. If you’re out and about exploring a city all day long there’s no doubt your find your phone battery quickly drained. This power bank can charge your phone up to 7 TIMES and also has a quick charge option!
Who doesn’t love listening to music?! This speaker is great because it’s small, lightweight and waterproof.. meaning it can travel anywhere and everywhere with you!
What’s better than reading while traveling? Kindle is the best way for any bookworm to work through their reading list while on the go. We used to have to carry multiple heavy books on a journey, now we can carry hundreds of books on one small e-reader! I’ve had a Kindle for years and I love it, especially when traveling. The Kindle Paperwhite is great because it has a glare-free screen that resembles paper. Additionally, a single charge can last you weeks!
Another gift idea for the photography lover. Go Pro cameras are for the adventurers, as they are small, portable, and usually waterproof. This version of the GoPro automatically sends your footage to your phone where the app turns it into a QuikStory-an awesome edited video!
Or if you want to buy it in a bundle
Easily capture that perfect photo! (But don’t forget to be mindful of others when in a crowded space.)
Different Countries have different power sources making this essential for an international traveler. This one works in 150+ Countries & comes with an additional 2 USB charging ports.
The Skyroam is a personal WiFi hotspot to get fast, secure mobile data around the world at top destinations in Europe, North and South America, Asia, Africa and Australia. You get unlimited data AND you can use the hotspot across 5 devices – which means your phone/iPad/laptop or you can even share with friends. You pick. You don’t have to use a SIM, you simply just press start and you are free to surf the internet. You can buy packages as little as $9 for 24-hour global day passes with unlimited data.
It can be difficult to stay healthy and fit while traveling, but with the Fitbit, monitoring your health while traveling is a breeze. The Fitbit not only tracks your fitness activities, it also tracks your sleep, heart rate, and daily activities so that you have an overall view of your health. This gift is perfect for the health fanatic but useful for any traveler. I just got one as an early holiday present (Thanks Mom!) and haven’t taken it off since I got it!
Other fun gifts!
I love to write about my travels and keep track of all my memories and a travel journal is definitely the place to do it. Buy your loved one (or yourself) a place to document all their travel adventures. A place to write down all of their memories, to look back on for years to come! This journal is great because it is over 200 pages, with over 100 travel quotes to keep the inspiration going!
Lonely Planet’s Ultimate Travel: Our List of the 500 Best Places to See
If you want to give the gift of wanderlust this is the ultimate guide! The lists of the 500 best places to see are ranked by Lonely Planet’s most respected travel experts.
A world map laptop case is a fun way to inspire wanderlust no matter where you are! There are all kinds of different world map laptop cases depending on what type and size of computer you have. (& this one comes with a keyboard cover!)
For those times when we aren’t traveling, a compass necklace or a world map necklace are both the perfect inspiration for the next adventure.. It’s also a meaningful gift that will last for years to come (and who knows how many countries it’ll get to travel to!).
Scratch Map
A perfect addition to your house/apartment! Keep track of your travels by scratching off where you’ve been.
What are your must-haves for traveling? I’d love to hear your ideas! Happy Holidays!
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Thanks for the post. I was looking for some new and useful ideas for gifts. You have some great suggestions… and I may just find something for myself also.
I want everything for myself! hahah! That passport case is so cute!
when making this list i *might* have added a few things to my cart.. oops! hahah Glad you enjoyed it!
Great suggestions but so difficult to choose the best ones as they all seem essential.
So many good ideas! I need buy myself some of these for Christmas
I hope my friends and family will read this. 😀 😀 😀
it’s the perfect thing to send to someone and give them a huge hint about what you want for the holidays! thanks for checking out my post!
Talk about perfect timing!! I’m doing some online Christmas shopping right now.
I love that passport cover!!! And the luggage tags! Just anything with maps I’m a total sucker for. Great list, nice to see a few different things from the usual ones. 🙂
I’ve been looking for a mobile hotspot! This was great timing! Thanks for sharing.
Oh my gosh, we have so many similar things on our gift guide! Haha. Have you used the skyroam thing? I want one really bad but I’m curious how good the service is. And I have yet to try packing cubes but I keep hearing they are a game changer.
great minds think alike! Packing cubes change everything…. you need to try them! (things will never be the same) thanks for checking out my post!
I have that travel wallet in purple and love it! And it was only $13, cant’ beat that! I really need to add a small towel like you have listed. That’s next on my list!
Bought the Lonely Planet book for a friend and I have a passport cover I love, this is a great guide. Happy Holidays xx
Definitely need this travel wrap! It would be perfect for me on flights.
The travel locks are amazing. You can read the numbers even in poor light. Best one I have ever purchased.
Will definitely need these essentials! A neck pillow and a wrap for that matter! I’ll hardly stay awake during any travel hence such will come in handy!
My parents love to travel and are hard to buy for, I am going to buy them the neck pillows for their travels!
I do have microfiber travel tower and we use gen when we go for backpacking and it is he best towel! I would love to get wireless headphone love the color!
Passport case and travel wraps are the ones I need to give to myself, as in my eyes, I’m the biggest travel lover . Thanks for this list
A great list, and you’ve inspired me – my Mum likes to travel so a travel journal would be a lovely present for her. Those packing cubes look really useful too!
Essential post !! I All are essential things but right now i have a need of neck pillow for my next short trip.
However, I am more interested in reading your Barcelona post. As visiting Spain with my kid is my top wish list. Now heading to the Barcelona post.
Amazing gift ideas, can I have them all?!
I have many friends who loves to travel so these are perfect list for me.
Great list of gifts for all travellers. There are so many things in your list that I would love to buy for myself too. 6 in 1 Travel Accessories Kit and Travel Sized Reusable Bottles look really cool.
Great list
That travel wallet looks awesome! Once I get my boarding pass, I’m always hyper-paranoid that I’m going to lose it! All of these make me want to jump on the next flight out of ATX!
What a great list of travel gift ideas! I’ve actually just treated myself to a new Kindle paperwhite and I definitely agree with you that it makes a great gift for travellers (even if the gift was for myself haha) 🙂
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My daughter is after the Fujifilm Instax Mini 9! And to be fair, they look so cool. You’ve picked out some amazing gifts for travel lovers here. They’d be sure to love them 🙂
Louise x
So many great ideas! I can see myself getting my husband a Fitbit. Whenever he goes someplace new, his favorite thing to do is find nature trails to hike. For my brother and sister-in-law who are world travelers, the book of 500 Best Places to See. I’ll have to ask how many they’ve already been to. x
Love these ideas. I have several – never travel without my Anker charger but wish it were lighter. I need to get one of the slim neck wraps. My go-to has been an inflatable but I’ve just retired another that leaks. Hate using plastic so this looks like the next best thing.
These are really nice gift ideas. Everything so important and related to travelling. Can’t do without most of them.
As a seasoned traveler, these are all great ideas! Thanks for sharing!
Great list! I absolutely loooove love love packing cubes! They’re such an essential part of my packing routine. And I would never travel without my kindle! Books are a fantastic time killer but bringing a huge pack of actual books is unrealistic. Thanks for the other recommendations too!
Really great list! I saw sooo many things on here that I wanted to give myself and other people in my life who travel a lot
I will have to save this!
Love your gift guide, especially when I have many friends whose birthdays fall in January! Oh btw, my camera equipment are very important when I travel 💖
I don’t know how I managed to pack before I bought my packing cubes…literally life changing. Great gift ideas!
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Thanks for the like on my post! I love these! The travel wallet, headphones, and hotspot were my favorites!
This is a really great list of things that many traveller would enjoy receiving. I am thinking about getting some noise cancelling headphones.
Pretty useful list. A travel wrap, portable chargers and reusable bottles are a must for me. Thank you for visiting my blog.
Great list! I actually have many of the things on this list already and use them in my travels all the time. It gave me a few new ideas to buy for myself as well as gifts for friends.
Great post..for me it’s neck support pillow, headphones and travel wrap. I like the idea of packing cubes very much.
It turns out that I am the travel lover so these gifts would be perfect for me! lol I might have to treat myself and buy a few of these items. The luggage tags and passport cover are so adorable. I definitely need cuter luggage tags. Thanks for sharing these! xx
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I would have never thought of a travel hotspot but that’s a great idea! I also really need a passport cover . . . my passport is a little worse for wear haha.
It’s great because I know I always struggle from the lack of internet (especially as a blogger!) … also passport covers are great, the inside of my purse isn’t always the neatest so this definitely helps protect my passport. My passport cover, not in the greatest condition, my passport is in pristine condition!
these are all such great ideas! I love to travel and I can think of a few of these that could come in great handy!
Ooh those gorgeous pink/rose gold, wireless noise cancelling headphones from Bose are definitely at the top of my wishlist! Oh and I could definitely do with a neck pillow as I always get what I call ‘crunchy joints’ as they always click out of place haha!
Thats a great list. My wife has those pillows and bluetooth headsets. Im sure she would love more on the list!
Such great ideas! Honestly wish I had a neck pillow and eye mask on my last flight as the lights barley dimmed and the seat didn’t go back, not a good time! Also passport wallet- so handy!
Any travel junkie would appreciate these gifts. I think cameras are perfect so they can capture all the beautiful and not-so beautiful moments they experience when they travel.
I can’t live without my eye mask when traveling. I must admit I hate Bluetooth headphones when traveling, because they can’t be used to watch videos on planes yet and it is one more thing to charge.
Now this a blog post idea I quite like, not the traditional Valentine`s Day gift guide but a specific post for travelers. As a wanderer myself I can`t agree more with all the ideas you mentioned. The portable charger saved my life so many times. I have my eyes on some good packing cubes but I am waiting on my next adventure. I would like to add a comfortable backpack / purse, extra batteries for DSLR users and a good quality reusable water bottle.
Waaahhh I like ALL of these!!! The neck pillow looks tempting to buy.
My daughter is a major traveller and I allays struggle on what to get him, come special occasions. I like the idea of the FujiFilm Instax camera.
What an amazing gift guide for travelers! So many items to choose! I’ve heard of Fitbit, it would be a great gift for my friend, she loves to be in shape while traveling and she’s also the health fanatic!
This is a great list! I’d definitely pick up a few of these things for everyday life. I totally agree on the headphones. My headphones died on me on my trip to Belgium. It was a LONG flight!
As a traveller my family’s go to present is always a scratch map haha, I have enough to start my own shop! Thank you for new ideas – maybe I’ll forward this on to my family 😉
Great list! I hope my friends read this! LOL
I love all of these! I think I’m sending this list to my boyfriend! 😀
Awesome – so many good ideas
Usually i gifted my travel lover friends with new travel journals, portable charger or memory cards for their cameras. They like it and its practical 🙂
This is such a fantastic post!! My brother comes down once a year from england for a holiday and I never have any idea what to give him! This post is filled with such great ideas! I’m bookmarking it for for this year when I have to do present shopping again!
thanks!
These are really great ideas! As a frequent traveler I literally have most of these things already lol.
Great post ! I think I already have half of these gifts 😀
Goodness!
I think that I have just added at least half of these items to my Amazon wish list for future purchases – thank you so much for sharing 🙂
As a new world traveler, I’m sure that these items (and your blog later on) will definitely come in handy!
Oh yes! As a traveller I can agree that all of these items are amazing! Neck pillow for sure Is a total must for me!
What a great list! I love our Go Pro and recommend it for anyone who travels, it’s a real must have!
What a fab and well thought out travel list! I especially like the travel wrap – it’s always freezing on planes!
You know.. I could use some of these in my everyday life to make life fun more smoothly
What a great post this is. I am always looking for great gifts for my friends and family who travel. And yes I also look for myself and what you have suggested make life easier and comfortable when travelling. I really like the 6 in 1 accessory pack.
These are very nice ideas for gifts. I want the fujifilm camera, I have been eyeing it for a while now. It’s so cute!
I would certainly love a new scarf! Great gift suggestions you have here.
You know what? I had to come back here and check your post. It’s the birthday of our favorite travel blogger tomorrow and I wanted to give something to him. 🙂 Thanks for the list.
Already have my instax, but I don’t use it that much. I like the passport case and I so need the TSA Lock for luggage, I always forget that.
Great ideas here. I think a good camera is always a must have for traveling. I like the idea of a neck pillow and the travel wrap.
These are all gifts that, as a travel lover, I would love to receive! portable speakers and instant print camera are the best for me, i still don’t have them but they would both turn to be so useful!
WOW, so many cool gifts ideas came in a perfect time for me! I want them ALL!))) I have never heard about a smartphone printer, but I like it! 🙂
I want everything in your list (well ok almost everything) but I really really want the fitbit! I am drooling over it actually!
I have never seen a travel wallet like this. Makes me think of the one time my brother lost his wallet on vacation and whether it would have been better had he had a wallet like this. Sounds like a cool idea. I know the reusable bottles and neck pillow are essentials as well.
Great guide! As a frequent traveler these are gifts I have in my public list to give as present. I always tend to forget small bottles in the hotel rooms, travel organizers are nice to switch and look for most comfortable. I love inflatable stuff to keep myself more comfortable during the long flights. Also instax is my love! I often try to fin space to carry my instant camera with me
Packing cubes and Headphones are my Travel Essentials.!
I have the rose gold headphones. They are great. I would be lost without them. I have some of the other items here too.
If I will have one in my wish list right now, it will be the Microfiber Travel Towel. I think it’s really useful for travel.
The reusable water bottle and pillow is my perfect pick from this list. For that travel i need enough sleep n rest along with enough water.
Excellent ideas. Thanks.
Very inspirational.
Good suggestions.