About L’Heure du Voyage
L’Heure du Voyage is an independent editorial magazine. Our angle is simple: we aim to be the French-speaking : and progressively English-speaking : reference for answering the founding question of every traveler, where to go, and when.
The question we answer
Most travel sites answer the question “how to travel to X.” Useful, but that’s step 3. Before that, you need to answer:
- Where do I want to go, given my available period, my budget, my desires?
- When exactly will be the best period for that destination?
- Only then: how do I organize.
Our site mainly covers steps 1 and 2, without neglecting step 3 (visas, currency, safety, itineraries). The idea: give you a reliable answer in a few minutes, sourced, dated, free of marketing fluff.
Why this site?
The travel ecosystem suffers from two extremes:
- On one side, large portals (Routard, GEO, Lonely Planet) : real editorial quality, but often generalist and slow to update critical information (visas, safety).
- On the other, individual travel blogs : authentic lived experience, but coverage limited to a few destinations and uneven expertise.
Our proposition: combine editorial rigor (official sources, public methodology, identified team) with responsiveness (monthly updates of critical information) on a broad foundation (52 destinations covered).
The team
Five specialist writers form the editorial team, each with documented geographic expertise and long field experience. Together they cover more than 100 countries.
- Marie L. : Southeast Asia specialist. 12 years of experience, 28 countries covered. Tokyo, Bangkok, Hanoi are her secondary offices.
- Thomas B. : Africa and Middle East specialist. 15 years of experience, 35 countries covered. Has lived in Cairo and Dakar.
- Laura P. : Southern Europe specialist. 8 years of experience, 18 countries covered. Bilingual Italian / Spanish.
- Mathieu D. : Americas specialist. 6 years of experience, 22 countries covered. Lives between Paris and Mexico City.
- Sophie M. : Pacific and Oceania specialist. 7 years of experience, 9 countries covered. Professional diver.
Beyond the editorial team, a small crew handles editorial coordination, the site’s technical side and our relationships with partners.
Our commitments
Everything is documented in detail, but the essentials:
- Editorial independence : our commercial partners never write our articles.
- Public methodology : every figure, ranking and recommendation is traceable.
- No paywall, no aggressive pop-ups : reading is free and uninterrupted.
- Human review : every page is read by a team member before it goes live.
How we are funded
Reading is free and will stay that way. To keep the site running, we partner with travel brands (insurance, credit cards, booking platforms).
Those partnerships come with no say over our content: a partner never writes our articles and cannot buy a good rating. The line between the editorial team and the partnerships side is set out in our Editorial charter.
L’Heure du Voyage at a glance
| Destinations covered | 52 |
| Continents | 5 |
| Languages | French and English |
| Maintained comparators | 4 |
| Free interactive tools | 4 |
| Identified authors | 5 |
We publish new pages and guides every week.
Contact
- For editorial (corrections, suggestions):
redaction@lheureduvoyage.com - For commercial partnerships:
partenariats@lheureduvoyage.com - For anything else:
contact@lheureduvoyage.com
See also the Contact page for full details.
The story in a few lines
The project was born in 2025 out of an observation: despite decades of travel literature and a growing number of blogs, the simple question “where to go in March, with 2 weeks, €3,000 budget for two” remains poorly handled. The answers exist, but scattered, outdated or commercial.
The bet: bring together authors with real field experience, give them a shared method (sources, revision schedule, transparency), and build, page after page, the French and English reference on “where and when to travel.”
That is what we do every week. And we keep this About page so you always know exactly who is writing, and why.
Page last updated on May 22, 2026.