10 travel photo book ideas for your summer holiday
You’ve had a brilliant summer holiday - drinks were drank, swims were swam, sights were seen. Everybody had a great time, and hopefully you caught all the best bits on camera.
It’d be a real shame to leave all those sunny snaps trapped on your phone, especially when it’s so easy to show them off inside your own amazing travel photo book.
Whether you prefer a hardcover or softcover, you can turn your best holiday photos into a beautiful page-turner unlike any other.
Before you get cracking, we have a few handy travel photo book ideas and tips to make sure your book really shines this summer.
1. Organise your photos first
When you start making your travel photo book, sifting through zillions of holiday photos on your phone can be a real chore.
Well, save yourself a lot of time and effort by organising your photos into a dedicated folder or album on your phone. Simple.
Putting all your travel photos into one place will make it so much easier when it comes to uploading them into our photo book builder. You can concentrate on crafting your page-turner, instead of frantically searching for that perfect beach snap you’ve saved … uh, somewhere.
2. Tell your adventure from start to finish
Since there’s so many things to see and do in an exciting new country, organisation is key. Especially if you’re enjoying a chaotic city break.
You could include your whole holiday itinerary at the beginning of your photo book to act as a contents page of sorts, then organise your photos in chronological order to tell your holiday story from beginning to end.
3. Focus on the food
One of the best things about being on holiday and exploring new places is, of course, the food! Oooh, and all those refreshing summer cocktails, (the more elaborate the fruit garnish, the better).
You’ll always be a foodie at heart, so snaps of your perfect pierogi, gorgeous gelato and other favourite meals would look fab in your holiday photo book.
Better yet, why not find a recipe for that dish and include it on the same page? Then you can relive your holiday through your taste buds any time you please (depending on your culinary skill level!)
4. Showcase all the sights
The Taj Mahal. The Grand Canyon. The biggest insects you’ve ever seen in your life. The world is full of fantastical sights and spectacles, and you saw at least a few on your latest holiday.
A travel photo book is the perfect place to display your snapshots of the incredible things you’ve seen on your travels. We’re talking scenic panoramas, gorgeous architecture, and basically anything else that made your jaw drop.
Besides, you booked the holiday to see all these amazing sights, so relive your sightseeing adventures every time you flick through your photo book!
5. Add text to share extra details
Be the narrator of your travel tales. Include some text boxes with your images to describe what’s happening in the photos, and any fun anecdotes related to them.
The average viewer may just see a nice group photo, but they’d also love to hear about the freak monsoon that drenched you two seconds after it was taken!
6. Grab photos from your holiday buddies
Unless you’re a solo traveller, the likelihood is that the other people that came with you on holiday will have taken some photos too.
This is a great opportunity to gather everyone’s photos together and create a photo book jam-packed with everyone’s memories from all perspectives. That way, you can be included in the photos too and not the one stuck behind the camera every time!
7. Keep the colours consistent
Instead of printing photos in a jumble, a cohesive and consistent colour theme can make your travel photo book feel more professional.
Our softcover and hardcover photo book builders have a vast option of background colours and collage templates to choose from, allowing you to bring your perfect holiday photo book ideas to life.
You could base the colour theme around the location of your holiday, eg: if you went hiking in the woods, go for deep greens and subtle chocolate browns to emulate the trees.
8. Include holiday keepsakes and souvenirs
Plane tickets, wristbands, postcards, souvenirs from attractions - you might pick up all kinds of keepsakes throughout your holiday adventures.
Rather than leaving them in a memory box to gather dust, you can include them in your photo book. So long as they’re small enough, you can glue, tape or clip them directly onto your pages (just make sure you leave space for them when creating your book online!).
9. Set the scene with a map graphic
Another cool addition to your travel photo book could show the exact route and distance you have travelled on your holiday.
Have a start point map and an end point map pinpointing the exact locations, or create a map of the whole journey annotated with your flight path. Maybe include some airport silliness photos on these pages!
10. Don’t forget the cover
They say not to judge a book by its cover, but your photo book should look amazing up there on your bookshelf.
First impressions count, after all, so save your sunniest, happiest or most scenic photo for your front cover.
It could be a smiley group shot of the whole holiday gang, or a dazzling scenic shot you’ve captured on your adventures. Whatever the photo, make sure it has that extra wow factor to entice people in and want to see the rest of the book.
These are just a few of our ideas for what to add to your super snazzy jet-setting photo book, but the sky's the limit with what you can create! Pick your favourite snaps, jazz it up with some colours and templates and hey presto! A beautiful book of memories to transport you back to your travels any time you like.
