Here’s some of the press and blog coverage Robert’s work has received:
Top 15 travel folks to follow on Twitter – Mashable
- 66 Best Travel Tweeters
- “The thinking traveler’s travel writer” — Afar
- Top 13 Travel Articles of the Year (2014) — Yahoo
- USA Today/10Best.com’s Top 10 Twitter traveler poll
- ‘Moderately dorky’ — New York Times
- ‘Fairly good results’ — New York Times
- ‘An engaging, worldly-wise host and game for everything they throw at him’ — London Egotist
- Did I win an award for talking about pants?
- ‘A travel adonis’ — Andrew McCarthy
- Billy Joel travel: ‘fun idea’ — New York Daily News
- ‘Travel-guide scribe’ — Q&A with New York Post
- ‘The most clever travel videos online’ — Skift
- “His presentation at TBEX was awe-inspiring” — MissBarlow of TBEX Athens 2014, many more Tweets of praise here
- (After reading his Lonely Planet list) ‘I felt inspired from a life perspective’ — Jen Leo, This Week in Travel (36:30 mark)
- Twipper of the month! (April 2015)

- “Finest piece of clickbait I’ve ever read” — Matt Gibson (June 2015)
- 2014 HSMAI Adrian Award — Best Reporting on “CorrOZpondent” campaign with Tourism Australia
- ‘The kind of story none of us have time to do anymore!’ — LA Times (by email)
- ‘Refreshing reminder about the power of expert content’ — Skift
- ‘A champion for lesser-known, quirky destinations’ — Outside
- ‘Best podcast guest’ — Amateur Traveler
- ‘Thank you… [for] one of the best musical compilations around’ — Los Angeles Times
- ‘Pretty catchy’ — Saskatoonian on CBC News
- Q&A with BBC.com/Travel
- ‘Good job’ — CTV News
- ‘U R smart & make me think’ — Sean Keener, Boots’n’All.com
- ‘Most entertaining &informative speech’ at NY Times Travel Show — TravelBarefeet.com
- ‘Trying not to laugh’ — CJME Saskatoon
- ‘Best podcast guest’ of 2011 – Amateur Traveler
- ‘Quality, fun travel video’ – This Week in Travel
- ‘omg… you were outside my house’ — BieberFan01sk
- ‘This guy is no presenter’ – YouTube comment
- ‘One of the nicest.. people on earth’ — Travel Yourself
- ‘Wild & weird’ – YouTube’s ‘IrishWoman54’