Le Travel Store, based in San Diego, California, is a retail store that sells travel gear. Founded in 1976, Le Travel Store claims to be the first business to call itself a "travel store," and the first to sell luggage, travel accessories, guidebooks, maps, and backpacks in a single retail location.

Joan and Bill Keller opened the first Le Travel Store in Pacific Beach in November of 1976 after noticing that independent travelers going to Europe, Asia, and Latin America were often using outdoor gear such as backpacks rather than more traditional luggage, but that no retail businesses were specifically geared towards meeting the needs of these independent backpackers. The founding of Le Travel Store coincided with an increase in the popularity and feasability of independent travel, which was also gave rise to numerous other companies, such as Lonely Planet, Eagle Creek, and STA Travel, that sought to cater to these travelers. ^[1]

Le Travel Store was one of the original tenants when Horton Plaza opened in 1985, and then in 1994, it was one of the first retail businesses to move into San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter during that neighborhood's redevelopment. Since its early days, Le Travel Store has done mail order business, at first with a print catalog, and then, from 1996 on, at its ecommerce website.

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