World Hum

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| name = World Hum

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| url = {{URL|http://www.worldhum.com}}

| commercial = Yes

| type = travel website

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| language = English

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| owner = Travel Channel

| author = Jim Benning and Michael Yessis

| editor = Jim Benning and Eva Holland

| launch_date = 2001

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| current_status = Acquired in May 2007 by Travel Channel

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World Hum is an online travel magazine.[http://www.satw.org/satw/index.asp?Sid=702 Society of American Travel Writers: Lowell Thomas Awards]{{dead link|date=July 2016 |bot=Cyberbot II |fix-attempted=yes }} Founded in 2001 by Jim Benning and Michael Yessis, Worldhum.com was acquired in May 2007, by Travel Channel{{

Cite press release

|url=http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-21-2007/0004592630&EDATE=

|title=TravelChannel.com Acquires Online Travel Magazine World Hum

|author=Travel Channel

|date=May 2007

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cite web

|url=http://current.newsweek.com/budgettravel/2007/05/travel_channel_buys_world_hum.html

|title=Travel Channel Buys World Hum

|author=Budget Travel

|date=May 2007

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World Hum features a Travel Blog, How To's, Book Reviews, Q&A, and travel dispatches. The focus of the online magazine is to focus not on the destinations, but on travel in the general sense of the word.[http://www.worldhum.com/aboutus/ About World Hum]

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