WTM (World Travel Market) arrives at London’s Excel exhibition centre from 10-13th November. If you’re scheduled to be in the UK around that time I’m guessing you’ll be making a beeline for the Excel exhibition centre too. The annual four day trade show is THE travel gathering of the year in the UK with more […]
» Read more...Month: September 2008
How Twitter Can Help You Get More Assignments
Just this past week I got an interesting note from a very savvy and forward thinking PR professional. Hi Tim, I noticed your HARO request a few weeks back on new media resources available for travel writers and wanted to let you know that the PR team at Fairmont Hotels & Resorts has created a […]
» Read more...Too Much Time Online?
Because of a trip down to San Francisco this weekend, I didn’t get online for a whole four days… four days! Well, that’s not entirely true — I did have to check my work email and send some things out Monday morning — but for the rest of the time I didn’t do any blogging, […]
» Read more...Win a Copy of Rolf Potts’ New Book, “Marco Polo Didn’t Go There”
There are some books that are just necessary reading for anyone who’s planning on embarking on a lifetime of travel adventures – either long-term nomadic travel or short-term trips where you want to get more out of the trip than an ordinary tourist. And Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel […]
» Read more...Meet the Frugal Traveler in New York
Here are two chances to meet one of the most known travel-writers in the industry today: NY Times Frugal Traveler Matt Gross will be telling stories of his experience traveling around the world and writing. 1)What: A talk at Idlewild Books about the Grand Tour, literary travel, frugal travel and so on. When: Thursday, September […]
» Read more...How In Your Pocket’s re-vamped site acts as forum and practice ground
In Your Pocket guides – synonymous with trustworthy local expertise – really came to the forefront of online and locally-distributed travel content via their coverage of emerging and expanding Eastern European destinations. I’ve caught up with Editor-in-chief, Craig Turp, for the latest news on their re-vamped website. Still at beta stage, the improved site aims […]
» Read more...Video Interview: Talking Travel Photography With John Kaemmerling
Working out the technical kinks to embed the video directly into the blog, but until then, check out Written Road’s new video channel over at Vimeo.com. The first video features John Kaemmerling, a San Francisco based portrait and wedding photographer, discussing some of his favorite travel photos and what he thinks about when shooting the […]
» Read more...Take a train trip with Paul Theroux. For $12,795 only.
In case you are one of those handful of aspiring travel-writers who are living off an inheritance, married to a celebrity, or have a sugar-daddy (or mommy!) at their beck and call, perhaps you might be interested in taking a train trip with Paul Theroux for the grand sum total of $12,975. The journey covers […]
» Read more...Bloggers wanted for high-profile travel blog on NYC and Paris
For those located in New York City or in Paris, you’re in luck. A major NY-based travel publisher — unfortunately the listings don’t say which one — is looking for bloggers truly plugged in to what’s hip and happening in the two cosmopolitan centers. Although the listings don’t indicate that you need to live in […]
» Read more...The Frugal Traveler On Travel Writing
A quote from Rolf Pott’s interview with Matt Gross: “Go into travel before you go into travel writing. You should know how to cross a land border, book plane tickets in a language you don’t speak and befriend the old lady who squints evilly from the second-story window at everyone who passes by. In other […]
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