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Will Hatton (born January 24th, 1989) is a British/Irish travel blogger.

He has contribued articles to BBC, The Express Tribune, and Yahoo on the subjects of adventure travel and traveling affordably and has been interviewed in The Telegraph. He is the founder and owner of the travel blog The Broke Backpacker.

Early life and education
Hatton was born in Brighton, UK. He worked at a grocery store unloading trucks before taking his first trip to Mt Kilimanjaro at age 19. Originally wanting to join the Royal Marine Corps, Hatton sustained a serious leg injury in South America that same year that disqualified him from enlisting. Battling with depression, he booked a one-way ticket to India in hopes of reinvigorating his life.

Career
After graduating from university, he returned to India and started his travel blog, The Broke Backpacker, dedicated to helping people explore oft-visited countries on a budget. He also began contributing for many larger publications around this time, such as the BBC. Notable coverage includes being one of the first westerners to get a tattoo from Whang-od, backpacking in Venezuela, and the January 2016 Istanbul bombing, for which he was present.

Since 2009, he has visited over 60 countries. In 2017, he began bringing foreigners to Pakistan on adventure tours and has since started his own tour company.

Will currently lives in Bali, Indonesia. He plans to open a hostel as well as paddle to Papua New-Guinea using a canoe made entirely of recycled plastics. By 2019, The Broke Backpacker was receiving over one million monthly visitors and was making six figure monthly revenue. He cited his father as an entrepreneurial influence, who was made redundant at work and had to reinvent himself.