It is hard to believe that the holidays are right around the corner already! Shopping for the travelers in your life might seem difficult, especially if they seem to always be on the go. Gift guides can be helpful for finding the perfect gifts, so I’m excited to share several ideas for personalized gifts for travelers that were chosen with love and care. Travel-themed ornaments, travel notebooks, luggage tags, passport covers, and home decor maps make great gifts for travelers during the Christmas season and throughout the year. These unique, personalized gifts for both him and her can all be purchased on Etsy, my favorite go-to source for beautiful, handmade, creative, and thoughtful gifts.
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Personalized Gifts for Travelers
Travel-Themed Ornaments
Ornaments are our family’s favorite travel souvenirs. We try to pick one up each time we go on a major trip, and we love decorating our Christmas tree with them each year. They always stir up amazing travel memories and bring us joy as we decorate for Christmas. Here are a few beautiful ornaments that travelers will adore:
Track a loved one’s memorable journey through the USA with this beautiful wooden map ornament. Choose customizable options, including destination markers. Track road trips, significant moves, or annual travels on one single ornament. Image: BLOCKSetc
Personalize this adorable little suitcase ornament with your favorite traveler’s name and travel dates. This ornament makes a particularly great gift for student’s embarking on a grand adventure overseas, families taking a gap year, or any other traveler who will live out of a suitcase for an extended period of time. Image: AdornamentsNY
These aluminum ornaments are simple in a beautiful way. The shop offers several country and state options, and you can choose to personalize it with a message up to 8 characters. Consider a country that has left an impression on your loved one during their travels, and customize it with their travel dates. Image: IronMadeArt
Personalized Travel Notebooks
Travel notebooks are a great way to keep track of memories, funny stories, itineraries, and lessons learned. My husband always journals for us while we travel, and we are always so thankful to have written notes when we return. Here are a few lovely, customizable options for the travelers in your life:
This wonderful kraft chipboard journal is stylish, sturdy, and the perfect 5×7 size, making it easy to travel with. Customize it with your favorite traveler’s name and choose from several notebook paper options. Does your loved one enjoy sketching? Choose a blank paper option. Do they enjoy writing? Choose a lined paper option. It makes a wonderful, sentimental travel gift! Image: TreasuresDelightsEtc
This lovely travel journal comes with a chalkboard cover. How fun is that? Personalize it with your favorite traveler’s name and a fun message. If you love the design but don’t love the chalkboard cover, choose a traditional white or kraft paper option instead. You can also choose from blank, college-ruled lined, dot grid, or graph paper, making it an excellent choice for travelers who might enjoy sketching over writing. Image: RandomActsofPoetry
This beautiful, gold foil notebook has a laminated, flexible, soft cover that will hold up on long journeys. Personalize the name and date on the front cover, and allow your favorite traveler to fill the lined pages inside with their travel memories. Image: PoshTottyDesigns
Personalized Luggage Tags
Luggage tags make practical gifts that all frequent travelers will put to use. No one wants to fumble around with those flimsy paper tags that are available at airport check-in counters, and they can rip or fall off easily. Luggage tags do not have to be boring, as proven by these amazing custom-made tags:
These leather luggage tags are perfect for both him and her! Customize it with the traveler’s name and address, and choose from several oil-tanned leather color options. I personally love the rustic gray color! The stainless steel cable will ensure that the tag will stay in place when thrown around on conveyor belts. Image: OxAndPine
These fun, engraved luggage tags come with several adventure-themed designs and fun color options! Made with sturdy vegan leather, the straps will hold up over time with heavy use. These tags are a great option for travelers who move their permanent resident often or who travel full-time, as the contact information portion of the tag is meant to be filled out by the owner. The other side, however, can be personalized with your favorite traveler’s name! Image: CaddyBayCollection
These luggage tags are perfect for adventure-seekers! The bonded leather comes in several colors with several font color options, so you can personalize them with your favorite traveler’s favorite colors. They are very affordable and a great option for the entire family, if you would like to order in bulk! Image: LetterandLeather
This leather luggage tag can be personalized on both sides! Add a quote under the world map on the front and then add the traveler’s contact information on the back. Choose a primary color and font that your favorite traveler will love! Image: JanePersonalized
Personalized Passport Covers
Passport covers are a great way to keep passports safe from spills and slight wear and tear. Frequent travelers will appreciate having a cover to keep their beloved passport in during international journeys. Here are a few trendy options that travelers are sure to love:
These lovely faux leather passport covers feature a a fun world map. Personalize the front cover with your favorite traveler’s name or initials and choose your font. With over 20 color options, this makes a great gift for a variety of styles! Image: BangkokHandcraft
Oh, the Places You’ll Go! This passport cover with a sentimental message makes a great gift for wide range of travelers, but I immediately envisioned my daughter’s passport inside this one! Personalize the name on the cover and choose from several fun or traditional cover color options. Image: HudsonLace
Personalized Home Decor Maps
I’m going to switch gears here for a minute and focus on personalized gifts that travelers can use in their homes. A majority of travelers aren’t on the road full-time, so giving them a gift that they can display in their home that will stir up special travel memories and inspiration would be priceless. I am biased as a geography teacher, but I love maps. Here are a few beautiful options will look amazing in any home:
Oh my goodness- isn’t this wooden wall map of the world isn’t the prettiest thing you that you have ever seen?! Talk about a stunning statement piece. It comes with little push pins so that travelers can mark where they’ve been. The creators used 6 different shades of wood, and it has a 3D effect. Image: EnjoyTheWood
Scratch-off maps have really taken off in popularity over the last few years, and I love how unique this National Parks scratch-off map is. Personalize the title with the traveling family’s name and then choose your alignment, font, etc. You can also choose to add-on a beautiful teak wood or vegan leather frame! Image: KUULYS
This photo map is on my personal wishlist! Personalize the name at the top of the map and add-on a frame if you would like. Then, the traveler will be able to personalize the map with their own photos as they travel the USA. The creators explain how to personalize this map in a helpful youtube video, making each step of the way a breeze. Image: ThunderBunnyLabs
Looking for more personalized gift ideas? Check out Etsy’s Personalized Gift Guide for more inspiration!
FTC: All items included in this gift guide were chosen with care! I loved scouring Etsy for my favorite personalized gift ideas for travelers. All images were used with permission from the sellers. When you purchase a gift through a link, I may receive a small commission.
Which personalized gift for travelers is your favorite? What do you plan to purchase for the travelers in your life?
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50 Comments
Linda (LD Holland)
It is hard to believe that the holidays are here. This blog post might jump start my thinking about gifts. Travel themed ornaments are a great reminder of trips travelled. Most people I know are not using notebooks. But I have one friend who loves to journal by hand. She would love something personalized. We have thought about getting home decor maps. I like that map with the pictures on it. Thanks for getting me thinking.
Leah
So happy to hear this! We love collecting ornaments from our travels, and we love home decor maps too!
Ada
Ive seen many blog post what to buy a travellers as a gift but Ive never seen such a clever idea like personalised it! Everything is so wonderful and I even just wanna buy that Home Decor Maps for myself! Love all of it!!
Leah
I’m so glad!
Bhushavali N
That’s a beautiful compilation. I love those customized luggage tags. I can never have enough of luggage tags. I think I should gift myself a few! Personalized passport covers are absolutely adorable!
Aluminium ornaments with a map is so adorable! I’d love to wear my mother country on my neck, as a pendant!
Leah
That is a wonderful idea!
Heather
These are all great ideas! I love the journals and luggage tags. So handy!
Leah
I agree! 🙂
Kara
Great ideas! I especially like the maps. So fun!
Leah
I agree- the maps are all so pretty and fun!
Jane Dempster-Smith
Yikes, Christmas is so close. Thanks for this list I am going to give it to my family. I love notebooks especially these personalised ones. What a great idea. I also do need some new luggage labels. Love your products.
Leah
So glad! Have a wonderful Christmas! 🙂
Cat Lin
It’s really hard to choose all are nice and cute. The passport covers are awesome also the photo map. Thanks for sharing this article. We now have ideas of what to gift this Christmas to loved ones.
Leah
So happy to hear that!
Chef Mireille
Wow these are gorgeous and such a nice idea to personalize them. Not the standard gifts that everyone else will have. My pick is definitely the luggage tags. They are gorgeous and I am always losing the cheap ones.
Leah
I agree- the luggage tags are so practical! 🙂
daniel
Great post!! As being someone who struggles a lot when it comes to gift this has come to at the right moment. I love to give gifts that are great but also personals and I would love to try some of these out. I would love to try out the personalized journals.
Leah
So glad you found this helpful!
Victoria
Thank you for this list. I usually struggle to come up with gift ideas, but this helped me a lot. I personally love the luggage tags and personalizing them just adds that special touch, so I’ll definitely be looking into those.
Leah
I’m so glad! I agree- the luggage tags are wonderful!
Soumya Gayatri
So many wonderful ideas in there for personalized gifts for travelers. I love those travel journals. I always carry one when I am traveling and would love to gift someone who loves them too. And the maps are great. I know for sure my family would love having one. Especially with the pushpins so that we can all keep track of where we have been.
Leah
I am so glad that you like these ideas!
Sarath Philp Jee
Thank you so much for putting together this superb idea. Really like the home decor map. Superb pics too.
Leah
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the ideas!
Bree
This is a brilliant post and will share on my Facebook for hints 🙂
Leah
I hope you get something you love! 🙂
Karen
I’m not normally a great fan of gift posts although yours is one of the best I’ve read. I love the authentic nature of the gifts you’ve chosen and in particular love the home decor maps. If I had a house I’d have one of those. kx
Leah
I’m so glad! 🙂 It was my goal to choose gifts that were special and authentic.
Andi
I love the fact that these are all from Etsy stories – supporting small businesses is the way to go during the holidays!
Leah
I agree! Etsy is such a great way to find new small companies to support!
Mona
These are so cute! Love the passport holder.
Leah
I’m so glad!
Melinda
I love the big wooden wall map! But they all look so great. I can think of a few people who would appreciate receiving these for Christmas.
Leah
I agree! I would love the wooden wall map too!
Nina Bosken
I love journals, so I will definitely have to check some of those journals out! They look great! I also love the maps. It feels awesome as a travel to mark off all the places you’ve been!
Leah
I agree! It is a great way to track travel!
Jennifer Brommer
These are fantastic ideas! I love the personalized ornaments the best! Our travel agent gave our entire group a personalized ornament of a recent trip as a ‘thank-you’ gift and it was the best gesture!
Leah
I bet! We love ornaments! 🙂
Kirsten Maxwell
I love all of these unique suggestions. Have my eye on the leather luggage tag and the heart with the state inside of it. Let’s hope hubby gets the hint!
Leah
I hope you get what you’re hoping for! 🙂
Tiffany
These are all such beautiful and unique ideas! I’m off to peruse Etsy! 🙂
Leah
Have fun! Etsy has wonderful gift items!
Karen
These are such lovely gifts! I’m definitely getting hubby one of those personalised luggage tags! Perfect for someone hard to buy for
Leah
I agree! So useful for frequent travelers!
Farrah
These are all such awesome ideas! I really like those home decor maps! <3
Leah
Aren’t they pretty? I love them too!
Liona
I love these amazing ideas, some of them are so cute!
Leah
Thank you! 🙂
Nina | Lemons and Luggage
I have a scratch map, but mine didn’t come with a frame. I would love to have one with a frame to make it look prettier and also be able to hang it on the wall more easily.
Leah
Definitely! That would make a great gift!