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 (50 destinations covered at maturity).
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, the project is led by [DIRECTEUR_PUBLICATION_NOM], in charge of strategy, technical execution and commercial relations.
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.
- Transparency on revenue : we publicly explain how we earn money and how it does (or does not) influence what you read.
- No paywall, no aggressive pop-ups : reading is free and uninterrupted.
- No AI-only content : every page goes through full human review.
Our business model
The Site is funded by:
- Affiliate marketing (commission earned when you buy a third-party product through one of our identified outbound links : no extra cost to you);
- Editorial space sales to travel brands (insurance, credit cards, booking platforms).
None of these revenues influence editorial content. The separation between the editorial team and the commercial team is documented in the Editorial charter.
The project in numbers (end-2026 target)
| Metric | End-2026 target |
|---|---|
| Destinations covered | 50 |
| Pages published (FR + EN) | 6,760 |
| Monthly updates (utility pages) | 200 |
| Maintained comparators | 4 |
| Interactive tools | 4 |
| Magazine articles | 50+ |
| Identified authors | 5 |
These numbers will be updated publicly as the project progresses.
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: assemble a team of authors with real field experience, give them a solid editorial infrastructure (methodology, revision schedule, transparency), and gradually build the French and English reference on the question of “where and when to travel.”
The project is in its first months of publication. We publish this About page from launch so you know exactly who is talking and why.
Page last updated on May 22, 2026.