Meet Simone Salton

We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Simone Salton. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Simone below.

Simone, looking forward to learning from your journey. You’ve got an amazing story and before we dive into that, let’s start with an important building block. Where do you get your work ethic from?
Through our writing, our photographs and our videos, we want to share everything that is worth seeing and experiencing for us. We want to create authentic content, intended for the LGBT + community and beyond, thanks to our experiences and memories. We have tried everything we tell on our skin, and it has given us such deep emotions that we have decided to share them with our followers.

Great, so let’s take a few minutes and cover your story. What should folks know about you and what you do?
World Mappers’ Project is the travel experience of two Italian guys who have decided to start a new chapter of their life, sharing their passion for travel and pursuing the goal of leaving a mark in every part of the world. We are Simone & Marco, known as the World Mappers.
Travel / Friendship / Love – These are the three reasons that started our project.

From a random photo during our first trip together as a couple, the challenge was born to take a #Face2Face photo in every city and corner of the world.​

At the same time we worked on the creation of a blog, creating a collection of practical guides to let our followers travel with us. Our blog is structured in different sections that can be easily consulted. The Map’Guide are Gay & Lesbian Friendly travel guides on different destinations internationally. These are then accompanied by single Map’City, collections of practical information on the main cities around the world, with many of our tips for living unique and out of the ordinary experiences. Finally, with the addition of the Map’Info, Map’Foody and Map’Hotel categories, we present useful tips to better organize a holiday, recipes and flavors from around the world and a range of LGBT friendly hotels.

After the great success with the Travel theme, we launched on an innovative section, through the Map’Advisor project. A collection of our greatest passions and the presentation of products related to them. Furnishing items, personal care, travel accessories, photography, unique experiences and much more that we like to recommend to those who follow us.

There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?
Exploring the world. Visiting new destinations. Discovering local cultures and flavors. Those are the reasons which let World Mappers’ Project begin!

Looking back over the past 12 months or so, what do you think has been your biggest area of improvement or growth?
In the last 12 Months we started a new project of Gay Friendly Group Tours in the World, by taking our followers with us during our World Trips. This is for sure one of the latest challenge for us.

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