Vintage Travel Posters & Tourism Prints

Nice in winter. The Great Barrier Reef. Cuba, with red maracas. These vintage travel posters are very good at making somewhere else seem like an excellent idea.

Digitally restored reproductions from £19.99, printed on 200gsm Enhanced Matte Fine Art Paper with pigment inks. Printed locally and shipped from the UK, US and Canada. Supplied unframed.

Vintage travel and tourism posters collection — 1935 Normandie liner poster by Cassandre

Chéret, Percy Trompf, Villemot, Broders and Domergue bring their own ways of seeing a destination, from elegant resort life to landscapes you could happily disappear into. Ferrara, French spa towns, Alpine snow and an ocean crossing offer rather different holidays. Choose somewhere you’ve been, somewhere you’re going, or somewhere you like better in the poster. There’s no obligation to book.

Somewhere else, beautifully argued

A travel poster turns a place into a promise. It might offer warmth, snow, architecture, spectacle or a particular sort of leisure. The artist has to decide which detail will make the whole destination feel desirable. A coastline can become a few decisive curves; a city can be represented by one memorable building or an evening’s entertainment.

The current selection moves from Chéret’s Nice L’Hiver to Percy Trompf’s Great Barrier Reef, with Cuba Holiday Isle and Italian destination designs offering other invitations. Compare what each poster thinks you want from a holiday. Some promise activity, some atmosphere, and some make a very persuasive case for doing as little as possible.

A destination, an artist or a memory

You can begin with a place that means something to you: a trip taken, a family connection or a city you keep returning to. You can also follow an artist’s view. Villemot’s travel work and Broders’s landscapes simplify a place differently from a more detailed resort scene. Domergue’s Nice Beuil and the winter designs bring fashion, leisure and landscape into the same conversation.

The SS Rotterdam design adds the pleasure of the journey itself. A ship poster can suit someone who loves travel without requiring a particular destination. For aircraft and rail routes, the aviation collection and railway posters offer more focused ways to browse.

Let the room take a holiday

Choose by the part of the image you want to live with every day. A broad area of sea or sky can give a room a sense of openness. A busier town or resort scene offers small details to keep discovering. If you are planning a pair, compare the horizon, the scale of the lettering and the balance of warm and cool colour.