Best Travel & Tourism Premium WordPress Themes

[Updated: 20 April, 2012]

This collection of Best Travel & Tourism Premium WordPress Themes represents the best travel & tourism premium themes for WordPress.If you’re looking for a WordPress theme to build city, region or country travel guide websites and includes Google maps integration allowing you to map and publish information about tourist attractions, hotels, shops, restaurants, night life, festival etc. You’re in the right place.These Travel & Tourism themes will transform your standard WordPress blog into a superior publishing platform. This collection page will be updated regularly.

Geo Places V4 is a very popular travel WordPress theme updated from Templatic that turns your website into a strategically built city portal that gives you good ROI and showcases different places and businesses. This theme’s front-end looks very similar to GeoPlaces v3, but there are a number of new additions.

GeoPlaces V4 WordPress Theme

Updated GeoPlaces V4

  • Better monetization – make even more money
  • Better listing and theme management
  • More security options
  • Revised custom fields
  • Ability to show the big map in category listings
  • Add and show category descriptions to explain what each category is about
  • Improved listing navigation with sub-categories below the parent category
  • Limit the image upload size
  • Full compatibility with WP-reCAPTCHA enables a bot-free user experience

Features

  • Strategic design of the homepage – Geo Places theme’s homepage structure is finalized after many iterations. Designed strategically, the structure of the page is done in such a way that gives maximum exposure to essential elements. From main product image to tiny design element, everything is thoughtfully placed at the right place. The page includes maps, widgets, image slider, adding videos, etc.
  • Widgetized Homepage – In GeoPlaces, the whole homepage is widgetized which makes customizations extremely simple. Don’t need to homepage map? No problem, just place the Home Banner widget in that area!
  • Category Listing View – The places category page gives you an option to list the places in grid or list view from admin panel. A separate sidebar is shown here which also shows collective map of all the places in this category. Not only that, you can sort the places by user rating and reviews
  • Listing Details Pages – Strategically built page gives maximum ROI. It creates auto Image gallery, highlights the place address, contact details etc. Plus, shows detailed map and direction and shows places near by.
  • Add Places – You can allow your site visitors to add places on your site for free or can charge them a reasonable fees. You can allow it to automatically publish on your site or can choose keep them as draft unless you review the place. Support for six different payment gateways is included.
  • Add Events – Don’t just limit your directory to business listings, but now users can add events also. You can allow users to post events by enabling a setting from wp admin area. Also you can add image gallery, to do this, just keep on adding images and image gallery will be automatically be created.
  • Mega Menu widget included – For those who don’t want to use class WordPress custom menu GeoPlaces offers a custom coded Mega Menu widget. To see it in action just visit the live demo. Third party mega menu plugins like UberMenu are also supported.
  • Featured Events and Listings – Add free or featured events/listings. Featured listing or events gets special attention and its highlighted. Also you can list it in grid/listing view, and you can select this wp admin area.
  • Custom Fields – Use the Custom Fields section of the theme back-end to create new fields for your Add Place and Add Event forms. All created fields can also be included in the Advanced Search page template.
  • User Dashboard Page – Users can register on your site and can manage the places they have listed on your site. Not only that, they can also renew the place listing further once their listing has expired. With user custom profile fields you can create specific fields for your site visitors.
  • News Blog – You can have a news page on your site where you can list all the news/blog posts and users can comment in there as well
  • Extensive theme options – Control everything from WordPress admin options to color scheme, logo, navigation, google map -> Map Central – latitude, longitude and Scaling factor, Category page Settings, Place Detail page Settings, Add Listing page Setting, etc.
  • Payment Options – Various types of Payment Options are integrated like Paypal, PayPal Pro, Google Checkout, Authorize.net, Worldpay, 2CO (2Checkout), Pre Bank Transfer and Pay Cash On Delivery
  • Manage Category Icons – The map shows different icons to indicate different categories on your site. You can manage and change Google Map category icons as per your wish. The theme also enables you to set a specific price for each of your categories.
  • Manage Coupons – Not only you can charge your site visitors for adding places on your site. You can create, manage and give them promotional coupons once in a while to increase popularity of your site.
  • Price Packages – You can create unlimited options on your site in the way you wish to charge the users for listing a place. Price Packages enable you to choose specific categories that will use that price package. Creation of recurring price packages is also available.
  • Out of the box – Auto Install
  • Six detailed color schemes
  • Fully customizable front page
  • Excellent Support
  • Theme Guide & Tutorials
  • PSD File Included with multiple use license
  • Drop Down menu
  • Gravatar Support & Threaded Comments
  • Built-in Ad Monetization
  • Built-in payment gateways
  • Widget Ready with custom widgets
  • Valid, Cross browser compatible

Price
Single: $89.95
Multi Use: $179
Membership: $299 (all themes) Recommended

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Templatic offers a range of premium business / CMS, ecommerce, magazine / news, portal, portfolio, personal blog and other niche premium WordPress themes.

Discovery is a business & travel WordPress theme from WPZoom that also suit for any type of content: be it business, travel, health care, education, regular blogging, even for a professional portfolio. This theme is very well structured, clean, versatile, easy to adapt and customize.
Discovery WordPress Theme
Features

  • WPZOOM Framework – With the advanced WPZOOM Framework, you can easily customize every detail of your theme to best suit your needs.
  • Featured Posts Slider – Easily configurable posts slider on homepage which allows you to highlight your featured posts.
  • Featured Static Pages – You can highlight 4 static pages, for example your main services, advantages, etc.
  • Compact Post Footers – Intuitive and logical features at the end of posts.
  • Footer Widget Sidebars – The theme has 4 widget-areas in the footer, separated in 4 equal columns.
  • Two Styles for Posts – You can choose to show small or large thumbnails for your posts, on homepage and archive pages.
  • Featured Posts on Homepage (jQuery Slideshow)
  • Featured Pages on Homepage
  • Very Search Engine Optimized (SEO)
  • Easy Customization
  • 3 Custom Page/Post Templates
  • 7 Custom Widgets
  • Tabbed Widget in Sidebar
  • Slideshow Shortcode
  • Shortcode Manager
  • Custom Menus Management
  • Tabbed Widget in Sidebar
  • Threaded Comments Support
  • Custom Widgets & Features
  • SEO Options Section
  • Custom Page Templates
  • Developed for WP 3.0, 3.1, 3.2+
  • Custom Logo Input
  • Automatic Image Resizing
  • Internationalized & Localized
  • Banner Management Section
  • Custom Background Support

Price
Standard License: $69
Developer License: $149
WPZOOM Membership: $9/month

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WPZoom offer a range of premium WordPress themes in different styles including: magazine / news, business, CMS, video, photo gallery, portfolio, and professional blogs.

Journey is a travel & tourism WordPress theme from Gabfire Themes with a pretty scenic pictures and sleek design. It’s perfect suitable for the avid traveler as a blog or magazine, and can even be used by travel agencies to showcase the top destinations in the world.

Journey WordPress Theme

Features

  • Multiple Category Page Layouts – Three different category layouts. Choose between Media, Magazine or Default category templates to give a unique look to inner pages.
  • Gabfire Gallery – This theme Implemented custom post types for better organization. Custom Post Types include Gabfire media and photo galleries (see video), services, and testimonials.
  • Advertisement Module – Category Based Ads – The theme includes an advertisement module along with a “category based ad” option. With this module you can display different ads for each categories.
  • Fully Controllable Sliders – With the various options in the theme control panel, you can disable sliders, enable/disable auto rotation, set number of posts and many other options.
  • Media Gallery Template – On the theme control panel, define which category or categories to be displayed in the media gallery mode using our nicely designed media gallery template.
  • Flowplayer and jQuery Tools – Implemented awesome FLV Video Player and jQuery Tools of Flowplayer Oy
  • Latest WordPress Compatible – All Gabfire themes are compatible with the latest version of WordPress as well as with the vast majority of browsers in use today. These include Internet Explorer 7 and 8, Firefox, Opera, Google Chrome and Safari.
  • Multiple Color Schemes– It packed with at least 5 different color schemes where the switch between different colors are offered just as a matter of click on theme control panel.
  • Advanced Theme Control Panel – It comes with an impressive backend that gives control over all theme options and takes away the headaches of editing code.
  • SEO Optimized – Inlcudes built-in options and optimized for SEO to increase your rank on search engine results.
  • Custom Media Module – The custom Gabfire Media Module doesn’t only let you only to have auto resized thumbnails but also it will allow you to display a FLV video hosted on your server or to embed a flash video to your posts.
  • WordPress Multi Site Compatible – With support to Multi Site option of WordPress we give you ability to start your own network with in minutes.
  • Localization Support – You can localize any of our themes with in minutes.

Price:
Standard Pack: $59
Developer’s Pack: $179

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Gabfire Themes formerly offers some professional & premium magazine / news portal, business WordPress themes.

WPLocator is a visually stunning location based WordPress theme from Templatic ideal for travel enthusiasts to showcase various interesting places on a Google map along with descriptions and images. It comes with unlimited color schemes, awesome shortcodes, custom fields, excellent support and more.

WPLocator WordPress Theme

Features

  • Full-width Map – A functional booking module with useful options for users to book your vacation home per day/week/month
  • Street view and Map-type selection integrated – You can switch between Roadmap & Satellite view on-the-fly. On Place pages, you can also have a street-view (if provided by Google).
  • Awesome shortcodes – Shortcodes are cool and make you a power-user. You can show your content in a specilized layout, show buttons, put an alert/notification box, etc. without having to code anything.
  • Custom Fields – Custom fields enhance the functionality of your site. It helps you provide extra information about a place and show them in the sidebar. Setting up custom fields is easy too.
  • Out of the box Auto-install
  • Unlimited skin colors
  • Excellent Support
  • Custom fields
  • Theme Guide & Tutorials
  • PSD File Included with multiple use license
  • Drop Down menu
  • Gravatar Support & Threaded Comments
  • Integrated 30 short-codes
  • Built in SEO options
  • Widget Ready with custom widgets
  • Valid, Cross browser compatible

Price
Single: $65
Multi Use: $99
Premium Themes Club: $299 (all themes) Recommended

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Templatic offers a range of premium business / CMS, corporate, ecommerce, magazine / news, portal, portfolio, personal blog and other niche premium WordPress themes.

Tuscany is a child theme for Xtreme One WordPress Framework from Xtreme Theme that ideal for tourist and travel websites or to present your products, service or company in an elegant and clean design to represent the great quality of your products or service.

Tuscany Child Theme

Examples of the numerous layout variants, which you can create with Xtreme One WordPress Framework:

Tuscany Child Theme Layout Variations

Features

  • Layout Manager – allows you to create your own layout for any template, include sidebars and turn a container on or off
  • Adjustable Layout Width – allows solid, fluid and flexible layouts
  • 6 Content Area Layout Versions – with customizable width in %, em or px
  • Gravatar support and additional text fields for individual messages
  • Able to add teaser and footer with dynamical created widget areas in 28 layout variations and up to 5 columns
  • Free Positional Navigations with 4 different stylesheets for WP Menus, page or categories
  • WP menus in 4 different styles
  • Teaser and Footer Areas
  • 3 comment form layouts, additional text fields, adjustable avatar size and alignment
  • 12 Custom Widgets
    • Accessible, printable Tabber for your posts
    • Social links widget
    • Lastest tweets widget
    • 3 different slider widgets
    • 5 different post/page widgets
    • Newsletter widget
  • Search engine friendly, lean, semantic and valid code
  • Multisite, Widget and Localization ready
  • Combining of stylesheets and stylesheet compression
  • Extensive documentation, support forum, knowledgebase, free updates
  • WP 3.0+ Support – featured images, background images, and WordPress 3.0 menus

Price:
Tuscany Child Theme: $19.95
Xtreme One Framework: $79.95

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Vacation Rental is a premium WordPress theme from Templatic that designed to showcase your vacation home using beautiful photo galleries and offer it on rent to tourists on online. It have responsive layout and also includes 5 detailed color schemes, awesome short-codes and much more options to attract tourists.

Vacation Rental WordPress Theme

Features

  • Booking module – A functional booking module with useful options for users to book your vacation home per day/week/month
  • Availability Calendar – The availability calendar automatically updates itself when a booking is confirmed. It stops other users to book the same dates again.
  • Awesome shortcodes – Provided custom shortcodes specific to this theme, like the [ame_list], [yes], [no], etc which will help you better describe your property.
  • Google map enabled contact us page – A simple yet strategically created widget helps display Google Map on contact us page for users to better locate your property.
  • Responsive Layout – Once you install this theme, your site adjusts its layout beautifully on all devices, on all resolutions. It’s just works out of the box.
  • 5 detailed color schemes
  • Excellent Support
  • Theme Guide & Tutorials
  • PSD File Included with multiple use license
  • Drop Down menu
  • Gravatar Support & Threaded Comments
  • Integrated 30 short-codes
  • Built in SEO options
  • Widget Ready with custom widgets
  • Valid, Cross browser compatible

Price
Single: $65
Multi Use: $99
Premium Themes Club: $299 (all themes) Recommended

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Templatic offers a range of premium business / CMS, corporate, ecommerce, magazine / news, portal, portfolio, personal blog and other niche premium WordPress themes.

The Navigator is a creative WordPress theme from ThemeForest ideal for travel blogs and location guides. This directory-based theme utilizes Google maps to display exact locations and provide users the ability to interact with the location. It also can be used as a real estate listings directory.

Homepage

The Navigator WordPress Theme

Detailed Page

The Navigator Detailed Page
Features

  • Supports Google custom fonts library
  • Google Maps integration
  • Slideout widget panel
  • Full screen image backgrounds
  • Draggable and collapsible windows
  • Unlimited link color options
  • Easy logo customization
  • WordPress menu support
  • Super easy admin panel using the OptionTree Plugin
  • Easy thumbnail images with built-in WordPress system
  • FREE version upgrade if you purchased this theme
  • Advanced jQuery animations and effects

Price: $35

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Dockside is a premium child theme for Builder Theme Framework from iThemes released by designer Cody Smith. This theme combining Cody’s design talent with Justin Kopepasah’s coding talent and perfect suitable for professional travel blog.
Dockside Child Theme

Dockside Unique Features

  • The beautifully designed blockquotes with dropcap styling to give that extra flare and distinction.
  • The fresh, new category and comment icons to make your meta data stand out.
  • The featured image usage on blog layout
  • The great typography, including the “Brawler” Google font for the headlines

Builder Theme Framework Features

  • With Builder’s innovative Layout Engine, you can build almost any layout you’d like within minutes.
  • Layout Editor – build almost any kind of new layout or page template you want (without knowing code)
  • Custom Landing Pages – squeeze pages, email opt in pages, feed pages, portfolio pages etc
  • One theme for almost every Project
  • Build almost any kind of new layout or page template you want in minutes (without knowing code)
  • Use one theme to build a website with multiple layouts and individual looks for each (Yes, each layout can have its own CSS!)
  • Assign specific layouts to certain WP Views (Specific layouts for blogs, pages, posts, EVEN categories!)
  • Create new widgets areas layouts or sidecars on the fly (We almost called this theme the Widget Theme)
  • WordPress 3.0 Custom Menu integration
  • Advanced SEO options panel
  • BuddyPress integration
  • Multiple Use License – use on as many personal and client sites as you want!
  • One Year of Support and Updates
  • Style Manager – easily tweak the CSS
  • Billboard & Rotating Images plugins – $90 value
  • 39 Bonus Child Themes(Less than $3 per theme if you purchase iThemes Builder)

Price:
iThemes Builder: $127 (30+ child themes)
All Themes Package: $297 (100+ themes) Recommended

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iThemes specialize in business & CMS WordPress themes, and have a large selection for designers, photographers, business and other niches. iThemes Builder Framework allows you to build professional sites with WordPress quickly & easily by creating your own layouts.
Lifestyle is a genesis child theme has been updated to Version 2.0 from StudioPress that works on the Genesis Framework. Lifestyle V2.0 is a stylish magazine-style WordPress theme which comes with 10 content-friendly soft color schemes, and widgets that support everything from video to in-depth articles to great photography. If you are currently using an earlier version of Lifestyle, then you can download the new version – Lifestyle v2.0 for free.
Lifestyle 2.0 Genesis Child Theme

Lifestyle 2.0 New Features

  • Modified a number of CSS elements
  • Have introduced the use of Google Fonts in this update
  • 10 theme colors schemes
  • Support of post formats
  • Adding the Landing Page and Portfolio Page templates

Genesis Framework Features

  • Automatic Theme Updates – easy upgrade similar to the way that WordPress itself (and plugins) are handled
  • 6 Layout Options – selectable site wide or for individual post/page
  • Theme Setting Panels – many settings that let you fine-tune the way your site looks
  • Customizations via Hooks (40+) – a hook is a piece of code written into the theme that allows you to attach additional content to the theme itself
  • Custom Widgets (MyTweets, User Profile, eNews & Updates, Featured Posts, Featured Pages)
  • Dynamic Text / Image Logo option
  • Navigation Menu Controls
  • Drop Down Navigation Menu
  • Post Thumbnails
  • Custom Widgets
  • Search Engine Optimised
  • SEO Options (site wide and individual page/post controls)
  • Widget-Ready
  • Seamless Upgrading
  • Breadcrumb navigation
  • Integrated Blog
  • BuddyPress Compatibility
  • Developed for Localization
  • Genesis Code Security

Price
Genesis Theme Framework: $59.95
Lifestyle 2.0 & Genesis Theme Framework: $79.95
Pro Plus All-Theme Package: $249.95 (Recommended)

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StudioPress offers a range of professional & premium WordPress themes including magazine / news, presonal blog, media, photo gallery, video and business / CMS WordPress themes.

Travel Magazine is a multilingual premium WordPress theme from Gorilla Themes that designed for who wanting to run a magazine website related to travel, city portals and lifestyle. The theme comes with 7 colour schemes, multi destination search, video rotator, banner management, advanced theme options and more.

Features

  • Multi Lingual Theme.New!
  • English, Spanish and Portuguese languages included .New!
  • Translate your own language. New!
  • Multi Destination Search. New!
  • Automatic Thumbnails. New!
  • Logo Uploader. New!
  • WordPress Photo Gallery. New!
  • 7 Color Schemes. New!
  • Featured Article Slider
  • Turn all-or-individual banners on/off
  • Quick Post – No need to put an image
  • IE, Firefox, Safari and Opera compatible
  • Extensive Help and Tutorial Included
  • Ad your Adsense or Image Link Code
  • Image Auto Resizer
  • IE, Firefox, Safari and Opera Compatible
  • Random Video Rotator (copy/paste code)
  • Build your Own Menu from the Theme Options
  • Drop Down Menu (Build your Own)
  • Unique Post Randomizer
  • Gravatar Support
  • Main News Section
  • Widget Ready
  • Theme Localization and Internationalization.
  • Customized Archives and Search Pages
  • Stylesheet Switcher

Price:
Basic: $79.95 (Promotion 10$ OFF)
Developer: $179.95 (Promotion 80$ OFF)

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Rainey Day is a a light and subtle, yet dramatic child theme for the Builder Theme Framework from iThemes designed by Brad Ulrich. It is a premium WordPress theme ideal for professional blogger with clean & minimalist style.
Rainey Day Child Theme
Rainey Day Theme Unique Features

  • unique fonts and font styling on the nav bar and headlines tags
  • multi-shaded lavender color scheme
  • ribbon graphics for added flair and elegance
  • styling of the author meta data
  • other stylish graphics being used throughout the theme

Builder Theme Framework Features

  • With Builder’s innovative Layout Engine, you can build almost any layout you’d like within minutes.
  • Layout Editor – build almost any kind of new layout or page template you want (without knowing code)
  • Custom Landing Pages – squeeze pages, email opt in pages, feed pages, portfolio pages etc
  • One theme for almost every Project
  • Build almost any kind of new layout or page template you want in minutes (without knowing code)
  • Use one theme to build a website with multiple layouts and individual looks for each (Yes, each layout can have its own CSS!)
  • Assign specific layouts to certain WP Views (Specific layouts for blogs, pages, posts, EVEN categories!)
  • Create new widgets areas layouts or sidecars on the fly (We almost called this theme the Widget Theme)
  • WordPress 3.0 Custom Menu integration
  • Advanced SEO options panel
  • BuddyPress integration
  • Multiple Use License – use on as many personal and client sites as you want!
  • One Year of Support and Updates
  • Style Manager – easily tweak the CSS
  • Billboard & Rotating Images plugins – $90 value
  • 30 Bonus Child Themes

Price:
iThemes Builder: $127 (30+ child themes)
All Themes Package: $297 (100+ themes) Recommended

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iThemes specialize in business & CMS WordPress themes, and have a large selection for designers, photographers, business and other niches. iThemes Builder Framework allows you to build professional sites with WordPress quickly & easily by creating your own layouts.

ecoTravel is a fashion premium WordPress theme from iDesigneEco that can be use to sharing your travelogue, geo-locating and mapping your travel.This theme includes some bundled colors-schemes,dynamic sidebar and footerbar and more.

Features

  • Photo blog / travel diary – mash up with plugins to create your own travelogue, geo-locating and mapping your travel and more
  • Choose from the many exciting bundled colors-schemes
  • Backend Administration Panel – customize various aspects of the theme
  • Clean Code Make Customizing the Theme a Breeze
  • Post Thumbnails
  • Dynamic Image Resizing
  • WP 3.0+ Navigation Menu System
  • Super Fast and Lightweight
  • Custom Widgets
  • Dynamic Sidebar and Footer
  • Popular Browser Compatibility

Price
Single Theme: $49
iDesiegnEco Membership Packages: $9.99 – $29 per month

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City Guide is a premium theme from WooThemes designed for location directory-based WordPress sites. The theme is ideal for creating city, region or country travel guide websites and includes Google maps integration allowing you to map and publish information about tourist attractions, shops, restaurants etc. The theme also includes 6 widgetized zones, custom widgets, 6 colour schemes and backend options panel.

Features

  • Home Page Featured Module – can be used as an about section for the site or dedicate an image or a Google Map
  • Google Maps Integration – for geo-tagging of posts, with a custom map panel for your blog post editor and map widgets for usage in the sidebar. The integration also pulls the location from the map and displays the physical address next to the map in the location details
  • Custom Widgets – Twitter feeds, Popular post tabber, Adspace banners, and Flickr photo streams
  • 6 Widgetized zones
  • 6 Alternative colour styles
  • Custom Navigation – allowing you full customization over how your navigation should be structured
  • Backend options panel – make simple changes without editing code, like adding your own logo, changing to an alternate colour style, adding Google Analytics code
  • Cross browser compatible
  • Auto-sizing thumbnails
  • Localized for translations
  • Custom page templates

Price:
Standard: $70
Developer: $150
There is a permanent 3-for-1 offer, or get all 50+ themes in the WooThemes Club

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