For our latest Travel Journal we selected our favourite new travel publishers and asked them what they make of the future of travel. First up is Joe Miranda from the awesome photographic guide site, Touris.ms.

Tell us about yourself.

I’m an Editor, Publisher and Controlled Adventurer from London currently based in Melbourne. I launched Touris.ms, a Compendium of Photographic Travel Guides created by photographers from around the world as a counterpoint to the Lonely Planet style, broad guide to everything in a place. Tourisms hopes to emulate the personalised experience you get from sharing travel stories with a friend or couch surfing.

Why did you decide to start it?

Being a recent emigrant myself, and collaborating with the immense and far-reaching community of photographers and creatives at the Hard Workers Club, starting Tourisms was just a natural development.

What types of people submit photos?

I think that the majority of our contributors want to share an insight to their homelands and places they've connected with through their medium, sharing their personalized guide to a specific destination.

How would you like the site to be used?

I'd like Tourisms to be all things to all peoples. Each guide is so different to the next, I end up taking as much information from one guide as I do inspiration from the next. Often one inspires an interest in the other, I've found, and I think that's the best outcome.

Why did you choose a visual guide format?

I definitely prefer to look at content over reading it. As much visual aid as possible is a great entry point in considering something foreign, especially a place/country.Being a digital platform, we're blessed with the majesty of "linking" everything, which is as nifty a cheat for saying everything whilst not saying very much at all as exists.

How important is the experience of travel over the actual destination?

I’ve travelled alot, backpacking and on longer journeys, and for me its all about the destination. All I want is to get to a place and be in it. However I realise that to be fully affected by a destination you have to acknowledge the distance from home you've travelled…

Do you think people are travelling differently nowadays?

Not that much. Although the internet has changed the way people prepare for a trip and decide where to go, Teletext, Condé Nast or National Geographic had been doing that for all the time before anyway.

How will the travel experience evolve in the next 5 years?

I hope that more and more places in the world become more accessible, and that more people get out and see more places. I'm extremely grateful to even my small amount of travel experience when coming across so many people who have never left their country.