No, no and no! Don't you dare give up on something you are passionate about. The community here has given you some valuable advice. Take it one step at a time. I would love to check out your site when its done. I love to travel. Its okay to take a look at other travel sites and see what they are doing. It may help get some ideas on how you want to structure your own site. Don't give up!

Nichole, don't give up. Travellers need you. Don't try to do everything at once. I've made that mistake so I know how frustrating and discouraging it can be. Start with what you feel is the most important.

Here's my suggestion. Make a list of the main topics you plan to cover over time. You seem to have a good idea of these already. Choose the first one or two and break them down into sub-headings if they seem to cover a lot.

Now, put yourself in the place of one of your readers, who wants to make a trip overseas but is not sure where to start. Write a post for that person discussing e.g. booking agencies. Just that. Give them the whole gen on booking agencies and what to do so that they end up with the trip they want, not something the agent is trying to sell. Talk to that person as though he/she was a friend. Really help them. Send them to the agent with enough knowledge to ensure a happy outcome.

You might prefer to start with some other topic. Whatever you choose, make the range of it bite-sized. Extend it to more than one post if necessary. There's no hurry. Then move on, small step by small step through your topics. Fill in extra topics or sub-topics along the way if you want to.

I hope this will help you to break free of the overwhelm and enjoy planning and writing your posts

Margaret

First of all look up your topics with affiliate programs + travel industry and any other subject that would be a specific page such sad....
Destinations, flights, when to book, best travel dates, etc. write all of these keyword phrases down from keyword on WA and then plan your pages, and work on your content one step at a time. You are looking at the big picture and getting overwhelmed... Even though you are inexperienced with little traveling, your desire to can bring out your passion in your content... Any more help needed, feel free to shout

I understand your fustrstion, but the old say Rome wasn't built in a day...hang on.
I also have a problem with compacting.
You may want to build a simple page with just brief description, or a hook with a link to more information, you could work it as an on going blog or leave a question section so you can interact with your reader's.
Q AND A.
We can brain storm...I am not very skilled at running an online business, but I am at being a customer. ...
YOU CAN DO IT!

I would recommend that, for now, concentrate solely on creating a couple dozen blog articles, add a couple of easy static pages (static pages are usually found using the menu; used for general information - one of my websites has a page for a glossary, for example) in the next month or two.

Don't worry about all those fancy bells and whistles for now (which sound great but usually end up being quite a lot more work than content writing). Give yourself time to get used to running a blog site first. ;)

During the first couple of months that you're only writing content, which you do have a lot of ideas for, you can also plan and write out your ideas and design enhancements on paper - this will allow you time that you need to not try to "build Rome in a day."

You can do it - just take baby steps in the beginning and allow the big picture to unfold in time.

I think I speak for everyone here in sharing strength with you to go for it and enjoy how it comes along. :) ~ Mike

Nicole

That's a huge pay load you have taken on. It's no wonder your feeling overwhelmed and a bit fearful. Don't let the fear and confusion stop you. Face the fear and pick one topic and write about it for a couple weeks or months if you decide. Start thinking about all the possible topics within the topic you focused on.

If you decided to take on Travel insurance for example, break it down into possible articles.

How to find cheap rates?
What can you expect to pay?
What isn't covered?
When is cheap not the right choice.
Why but travel insurance?
What companies provide the best service?
How to travel with medications.
If the worst happens, what do I need to do?

I'm sure you can think of more (and better) topics. Become the expert on this one aspect of travel. Then you can branch out and write about other things.

Face the fear and the fear will dissipate and you will grow.

Sorry for the long winded post but I have faced this dragon before and won. Each time you win the dragon gets smaller and less threatening. He's not as big as he use to be.

Percy

You have some of the topic mentioned and all You need to plan your site setting first with all the categories. Look up for travel sites to see how they design the site. You don't have to travel to write those blog. There are plenty of travelling book and article on the Internet for reference.

definitely don't throw in the towel - yes it's a lot but give yourself a few days to come up with a structure- put the various categories on post its and stick them on the wall - freezer wherever. move them around keep looing - write other ideas down stick 'em up.
or if you want it digital use xmind as a mindmap - you can change the format to help with different ways of looking at things.
start a content calendar after you get it sorted (coschedule templates) and stick to it - plan the work and work the plan - even if you get s**t loads of other ideas (add to the stickies and enter them into the plan) - stick to the plan. keep at it for a couple of months and see if it settles down.
get on face book and ask people for their holiday experiences - good and bad. ask how they chose their holiday - would they do it different.
what do they want - what is their dream holiday - get on the forums - (forumfinder.com) see the questions - organise the topics.
Write down how you would choose the best vacation - research it. does it exist? or is it just a dream?
keep writing
yes it's a lot to take on but as jude and others have said but you owe it to yourself to give it the best you can - it's tough but are you tougher than this little blip? of course you are, you WANT to do this. you said it- so get out the post its - little pieces of paper - write one sentence on each of what topics you want and stick em up - use your doors as main topics with subtopics stuck on them - make it fun!!
keep writing
have fun
phil

How about writing down (with pen & paper) the menu structure first?
For example

Top Menu:
* Destinations (sub menu: all-inclusive, pay as you go)
* Travel tips
* Transportation (sub menu: car rental, flights??)
* Essentials (sub menu: insurance...)

And then start creating posts that fit under each menu... If you're going to write many posts about "travelling with kids/pets", then you could create a sub-menu called "travelling with kids/pets"

It's just an idea.....

No, not at all. Tackle one topic at a time, break everything down into little chunks. For example, make a point of writing a post today on just one thing out of that vast list. Do your KW research and then write down a few paragraph ideas. Write in short, 3-5 sentence paragraphs with white space and pictures between. Then let us know how you got on :)