52 Vintage Travel Ads to Inspire Your Bucket List ...

Via Haus Design: Vintage Travel Posters
The elephant is so cute. Who wouldn't want to visit? More great vintage travel ads to come.

Via Havana- Welcome To Cuba Masterprint ...
Doesn't she just make you want to get sashaying to sexy Cuban rhythms.

Via Oh...the places you'll go...

All wave to the people up top.

Via The Patriots of Mars: Image ...

This reminds me of my childhood holidays in Cornwall.

Via nineteenseventythreeltd: Interview: Pintachan.

A classic image for a classic city.

Via Shine United

Loving how the train engine is cheese colored.

Via Australia: Parrots, c.1930's Posters by ...

This one doesn't seem that "Australian" to me!

Via Posters at AllPosters.com

A classic depiction of Diamond Head

Via SCN_0045
I'm ready to strap on you water skis - are you?

Via andersondesigngroupstore.com

Don't you find it interesting that the 1950's stylisation of a jet airplane looks uncannily like a space shuttle?

Via Italy Venice Rialto Bridge Vintage ...

Not much has changed in Venice in many decades.

Via art.findartinfo.com

Probably one of the most unrealistic vintage travel ads out there. Denmark is a fabulous country but that picture is not representative.

Via Buttercup Bungalow

I wonder if when they designed this they would have ever imagined dog passports and dogs traveling by airplane.

Via Wedding Inspiration

Check out how much jewelry this gorgeous beach babe is
wearing.

Via The Poster Lady - Travel ...

From the days when American tourists had a love affair with Haiti. Haiti was once the most popular destination in the Caribbean.

Via Pitch Me Another!: Vintage Airline ...

Can you imagine that leg room and space on an airplane today/

Via Immigration Museum

Even in black and white Australia is enticing.

Via United Airlines San Francisco c.1950 ...
This one captures everything tourists know and love about San Fran.

Via Swann Galleries - Bermuda Date ...

Who could resist that ocean?

Via Enormous Flowers

What a riot of color.

Via bendbungalow.com

The elk is a magnificent specimen isn't he?

Via Vintage Michigan Travel Ad - ...

What family could resist the promise of so much fun?

Via Pitch Me Another!: Vintage Airline ...

Remember those days you didn't have to pay extra for airline food?

Via Amusements at the Carnival

Can you imagine a poster for Disney these days being so muted and understated?

Via 090 LA BAULE.jpg by Lucien ...

So stylish, so simple, so French!

Via Carteles y afiches de viajes ...

The Land of the Alps. Says it all doesn't it.

Via Pan Am Peru of the ...

How they used to advertise Machu Picchu

Via Marketing and Advertising

Fashionable ladies take the train!

Via "Leningrad," circa 1931

Am loving the use of Soviet gray to promote one of the great Russian cities.

Via Found in Mom's Basement: Vintage ...

This charming picture would certainly induce me to book a trip to Hawaii.

Via Found in Mom's Basement: Vintage ...

Fancy a trip to the Emerald Isle?

Via Welcome to Montana Travel Poster

What a great depiction of Montana.

Via decologue

The essence of Brittany.

Via DP Vintage Posters - Northwest ...

These days we're more likely to be seduced by the white sand beaches of Boracay.

Via Vintage Travel and Tourism Ads ...

How cool is it that they featured women fishing in the Gallatin River rather than men?

Via Norway Poster, Vintage Norwegian Travel ...

So simple, so effective, so bang on point.

Via Chamonix-Mont. Blanc

All year round advertising on one travel poster.

Via Buckingham Fountain

A fountain as the focal point promises dramatic sighs on the streets of the Windy City.

Via Hey Oscar Wilde!

Is it my imagination or is that Doctor Who's TARDIS in the bottom left?

Via New York by Pennsylvania Railroad ...

A timeless message that never changes.

Via Lufthansa - Tokio

Minimalist yet effective - the essence of Japan.

Via Carteles y afiches de viajes ...
The sweeping bay of Naples takes center stage.

Via Greyhound Presents The USA

Travel by bus to see the best the US has to offer.

Via The Vintage Poster - Otto ...

Sultry Spanish ladies still beckon you to sample the charms of the Iberian Peninsula.

Via Rome Italy Tourism Travel Vintage ...

I think this couild be any ancient city in Mediterranean Europe.

Via Pan American: Fly to Europe ...

A stylized skyline that is instantly recognizable as Europe.

Via Braniff Airways Poster Art

It's good to be reminded of all these once famous airlines that no longer exist.

Via Blue Mountains NSW Australia

The message couldn't be more clear.

Via Minnesota Lakes Fashion Lady Boat ...

Whatever the product beautiful women have always been at the heart of advertising.

Via King's Cross for Scotland, LNER, ...

This is one of the vintage travel ads that truly displays the classic art deco design.

Via cometofinland.fi

Travel posters are also a great source of he fashions of the day.

Via Vintage Travel Posters We Want ...

Now you know what enticed all those passengers on board the greatest ocean-going liner the world had ever seen.

Are you loving these posters? Do you have a favorite?