diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index f46423163..6e6ecc6db 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ install:
   - "cd ../../"
   - "export PYTHONPATH=`pwd`"
   - "python bin/init_model.py lang_data/en corpora/en spacy/en/data"
-  - "export SPACY_DATA='`pwd`/spacy/en/data'"
+  - "export SPACY_DATA=`pwd`/spacy/en/data"
 
 # run tests
 script: