An independent magazine, in the Pioneer Valley.
Voyage Talks is the trade name of Søren Halvorsen, working out of 175 State Street in Springfield, Massachusetts. There is no LLC, no parent company, no investor deck. There is an editor, a desk, and eight browser tabs that stay open all day.
The story
Voyage Talks started in 2017 as an email to roughly forty friends. They kept asking what we'd booked, where, and for how much. After a year of replying individually, we put the answers on a page. The page became this magazine.
What we are
An independent travel magazine and a deal radar. We write opinionated dispatches and guides, and we monitor public results pages on eight booking partners. We surface what looks interesting; we link out so the partner can sell to you on their own terms.
What we are not
We are not a travel agency. We are not an OTA. We are not a tour operator, an airline, or a ticket seller. We do not take payment from readers. We do not accept paid placement on the Radar. We do not run sponsored "best of" lists.
Mission
To make travel writing useful again: short enough to read on a phone, specific enough to act on, honest about price. Springfield is a good place to do that from — quiet, well-connected, and three hours from a working airport in every direction.
