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{{Infobox website
| name = World Hum
| logo =
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| url = {{URL|http://www.worldhum.com}}
| commercial = Yes
| type = [[List of travel magazines|travel website]]
| registration =
| language = English
| num_users =
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| programming language =
| owner = [[Travel Channel]]
| author = Jim Benning and Michael Yessis
| editor = Jim Benning and Eva Holland
| launch_date = 2001 
| revenue =
| alexa =
| current_status = Acquired in May 2007 by [[Travel Channel]]
| footnotes =
}}

'''World Hum''' is an online [[travel]] magazine.<ref name="SATW">[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 }}</ref> Founded in 2001 by Jim Benning and Michael Yessis, Worldhum.com was acquired in May 2007, by [[Travel Channel]]<ref name= "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
}}
</ref>
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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
}}
</ref>

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.<ref name= "World Hum" >[http://www.worldhum.com/aboutus/ About World Hum]</ref>

== References ==

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== External links ==
* [http://www.travelchannel.com Travelchannel.com] official website.
* [http://www.worldhum.com World Hum] website.
* [http://blog.colinmarshall.org/?p=2339 An interview with Jim Benning] on ''Notebook on Cities and Culture''

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