Creating a travel photo book to capture all the memories you've made is all part of the journey—but if you're like many people, you're not quite sure where to start. Check out this list of 10 fabulous travel photo book themes to get inspiration. When you find one you love, dive right in and start creating!
10 amazing travel photo book themes for your favorite trips
According to Robert Caputo, writer and photographer with National Geographic for 25 years, “Each place we visit has its own particular look, character, and ambiance. If we want photographs of all our travels to be good and lasting, they should capture all of these qualities, and say as much about a place as give a literal look of it.”
Well, you’ve done it! You’ve taken exceptional travel photos that reveal the heart and soul of your destination. You’ve captured the details, from dazzling lights to sugar-sand beaches, that made your trip magical, and now you want to organize the photos in one of Mixbook’s travel photo books. Here are 10 favorite travel book photo themes that may be a great fit for you.
Best theme for outdoor activities: Outdoor Adventures by The Tiny Garden
Ready to commemorate the time you spent in the great outdoors? Packed with fabulously fun layouts ranging from collages to full-page photos, Outdoor Adventures by The Tiny Garden is the perfect theme. You'll find plenty of earthy colors, outdoors-themed stickers, and vintage-style fonts that can pull together all your photos and help you tell your story.
Best theme for a honeymoon: Our Honeymoon
Your first vacation as an officially married couple is one for the history books—or travel books if you prefer. Check out Our Honeymoon, the perfect, chronologically designed book that lets you relive every magical moment of your first married getaway.
Featuring a number of great layouts, including those that let you mix and match your photos or put your adventures in order, this book lets you put photos over maps and other travel-related backgrounds while offering romance-themed stickers, quotes and so much more.
Best theme for California trips: California Dreaming Travel Book by Hello!Lucky
After a trip to the Pacific, the California Dreaming Travel Book by Hello!Lucky is a great way to commemorate your vacation. Full of beachy backgrounds, ocean-themed stickers and classic California-style fonts, this scrapbook's West Coast vibe is perfect for pulling together your favorite pictures.
Whether you spent your time exploring museums or you refreshed and rejuvenated on the water, you'll find all the right Golden-State-themed accents in this beautifully designed travel photo book.
Best theme for international travel: International Travel by Martha Stewart
Elegant and full of fun, the photo book International Travel by Martha Stewart lets you choose from several great layouts. Did you visit many locations? This book is perfect for grouping photos by location, and will let you relive your overseas adventure page by page. Choose from travel-themed backgrounds featuring illustrated tickets, landmarks from all over the world, maps, and more to create a book you'll love looking at for years.
Best theme for Alaska: Alaska Adventures
Relive the wonder and magic of your trip to Alaska with a theme designed especially for the Last Frontier. The Alaska Adventures photo book theme includes motifs that revolve around the wilderness, like background illustrations of snowy mountain peaks and wildlife.
The color scheme is right on point with muted spruce green matched with gray. With all the right typographic elements to create an itinerary-based format, this design encourages you to add details to your Alaska adventures.
Best theme for summer vacations: Summer Vacation Memories
The Summer Vacation Memories photo book ensures you'll never forget your mid-year getaway, whether you spent time at the beach, took the road trip of a lifetime, or went to visit grandma and grandpa.
This vacation-themed photo book has all the classic elements of summer, including sketched palm trees, brightly colored lemons, and fun sunglasses. This helps you to add even more personality to the photos you snapped along the way.
Best theme for the modern traveler: Modern Travels
Create the perfect tribute to your last trip with Modern Travels, a photo book that can help you relive every precious moment of your vacation. You can even compile multiple trips using this versatile theme, so whether you've been to one place or a dozen, it's perfect for capturing memories. The theme's built-in itinerary helps you keep your trip in chronological order, but it's completely customizable, which means you can group your memories however you like.
Best theme for Mexico: Mexico by bobo design studio
From Mazatlan to Isla Mujeres, no trip south of the border is complete without putting your memories into the photo book called Mexico by bobo design studio. Maps, bright colors, and plenty of fun are the hallmarks of this positively joyful book. Choose jaw-dropping backgrounds, full-page layouts, collages, stickers inspired by Mexican culture and so much more to celebrate each fiesta over and over.
Best theme for travel photographers: Full Photo Travel
Showcase your best photos with Full Photo Travel, an album that has what it takes to put your work front-and-center. Designed like a photography portfolio, this photo book theme enables you to drag and drop your favorite images into pre-designed grids or create your own.
Choose full-page photos or double-page layouts for landscapes, fill in portraits, and even work with custom sizes. This simple, elegant book is the best way to create lasting memories of the places you've seen from behind the camera.
Best theme for national park visits: Minimalist National Parks
Design the perfect memory book of your adventures in America's favorite destinations with Minimalist National Parks, a spectacular photo book theme that emphasizes the theme of harmony with nature.
This book features layouts appropriate for any trip, including accents for major parks that you can use to detail your trip. In colors inspired by the forest, desert, and ocean, this theme is perfect for commemorating your favorite moments from outdoor adventures all over the country.
Your trip is done—time for more fun!
It’s exciting to relive your recent travels by creating a Mixbook photo book. The process is fun and easy, so get on it and head over to Mixbook today.
