Where are the best ways to get links for a travel related site?? I know about directories and social bookmarking and forums. Are there any travel sites that are a must have to get links from???
Have you tried commenting on Travel related blogs? You will gain backlinks and visitors from non-spam commenting. Who hosts the pictures on your site? People always search for travel related pictures. If Google hosts them this will help bring traffic to your site as well.
Here is an article that covers a very quick and simple strategy for getting links on highly relevant resource directories in your market: http://www.thekaizenbusiness.com/?p=106