Unique Travel Gifts for Cool Travelers

This is my new favorite travel backpack and a great gift for travelers. This Knack Pack has tons of useful pockets including a hidden laptop side pocket and a great water bottle pocket that zips into the backpack. I also love that it can expand to hold clothes, great for a short overnight trip.

Here's a truly unique travel gift that can celebrate your favorite cities and college towns. Get a coffee cup, pint glass, or wine glass that features a street map of major cities around the world.

This super-compact tripod and bluetooth remote helps travelers snap photos of themselves while traveling. And its 4" size helps it pack away easily.

These travel scarfs are a great way to keep your important documents safe while also helping you stay warm. Scarfs are a great thing to pack for a long flight! And there are so many colors and patterns for every type of traveler.

Travelers are always on the go and it can be easy to misplace one of your items while traveling. These Tile trackers are great for sticking on wallets and gadgets to help keep track of where your items are while on the go.

Here's a unique and useful travel gift for her (or him) who hates hotel hair dryers. This dryer folds up and can fit in the palm of your hand while still offering 1000 watts of hair drying power.

Here's a cute piece of travel jewelry perfect for those travelers who are always exploring!

Another cute piece of jewelry that makes a perfect travel gift.

If you're shopping for a traveler who always wants to look their best, this travel steam iron is a great gift idea. It'll help them get rid of clothes wrinkles. Also, in these days of travel cleaning & safety, this steam iron can help kill 99.9% of germs & viruses!

A subscription box can be a fun gift idea for travelers as they'll get fun travel gift surprises mailed to them. Check out these 20 great travel subscription boxes that have gifts for every type of travel lover!

These have become really popular recently and work especially well for travelers who are on the shorter side. They hook around your tray table and let you stretch out during your flight.

Scratch off maps are all the rage lately with travelers. These fun maps help them keep track of where they've been and can be a bit of a bragging discussion piece for their home.

If you're shopping for a traveler who loves to journal, this traveler's notebook could be the perfect gift. It's refillable and includes some fun journal accessories.

For the travelers who also love a great glass of wine, this compass bottle stopper is a great way to toast your wanderlust while enjoying a drink.

Travelers are always dreaming of their next great adventure, this gift will help them save for it! This fun shadow box travel bank will let travelers stock away coins and bills to pay for their next trip.

This book will be well-loved by travelers. Packed full of beautiful destination photos, Wanderlust will inspire travelers for where their next journey should take them.

This is a practical gift idea, but one that travelers will enjoy! These Nomader collapsible water bottles are great for packing light. Plus they come in tons of fun colors!

This is a quirky gift but does serve a purpose. The lights and sounds on an airplane can bother you if you're trying to sleep, but this travel pillow has a built-in hoodie that can help you hide away from light and sound.

Looking for other travel pillows that make great gifts? Here are a few popular ones that work well on airplanes!

Do you know a travel lover who also loves coffee? This is a unique travel gift idea, a box of coffee beans themed around world destinations.

Most travelers know that packing cubes can help keep their suitcases organized, and these compression packing cubes also help save space. This set comes in four useful sizes and lots of colors and prints.

International travelers know how important travel adapters are. This universal travel adapter will help them plug-in multiple devices in multiple countries around the world!

Here's another useful but handy unique travel gift -- a handheld luggage scale. Avoid those awkward suitcase repacking situations at the check-in counter by knowing your suitcase weight in advance. Great for when you've shopped on your trip and are bringing home more than you took!

Most frequent travelers know about Airbnb and many have used it regularly. An Airbnb gift card makes a great gift for travelers who like to stay in unique residences.

For a more personalized travel gift that can be built on, check out the jewelry collections at Jet Set Candy. Their travel luggage tag jewelry is especially cute!