Matador Launches 8 Million New Websites

By Nicholas | May 2nd, 2008 |

I mean 8. Still, in the online travel website medium that’s muchissimo. This is good news for budding travel writers that want a entry level market to break in and... [Read this entry]

The Tommy Kohnstamm Fallout

By Nicholas | April 16th, 2008 |

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Ok, so this LP thing is everywhere now. There are AP articles on the Yahoo homepage. Polls being given about the trustfullness of guidebooks. Boycotts of Do Travel Writers Go... [Read this entry]

Someone Scratched My LP

By Nicholas | April 14th, 2008 |

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I don’t know if anyone has been following the news that has been creaping up all over the media the past few days, but guidebook publisher Lonely Planet has been... [Read this entry]

Wend Magazine Goes Digital; free issue

By Nicholas | April 11th, 2008 |

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Wend Magazine, an Oregon based adventure sports print magazine has recently launched a digital version. Not only that they are giving away the first issue free. They still have the... [Read this entry]

Travel Channel Acquires Vagabondish

By Abha | March 31st, 2008 |

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Breaking news from the travel-publishing industry: Discovery’s Travel Channel has bought over Vagabondish. First it was World Hum, now this — both are great examples of small scale, personal projects... [Read this entry]

NYC & Italy Travel Writing Classes w/Michael Luongo

By Nicholas | February 27th, 2008 |

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Travel Writer and Editor Michael Luongo, who we interviewed at Written Road last April, will be holding several travel writing workshops in the coming months:
New York University’s Global Traveler... [Read this entry]

Lonely Planet Expands Pick and Mix; others following suit

By Nicholas | February 19th, 2008 |

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Is this the start of things to come? Last August we reported that Lonely Planet began offering certain chapters of their South America guides for download -that can be printed... [Read this entry]

Matador Travel Merges With Brave New Traveler

By Abha | February 1st, 2008 |

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Check out my post on Gadling as to why I’m thrilled about this merger! Ian Mackenzie and Tim Patterson from BNT have joined Matdor’s editorial team and I’m really looking... [Read this entry]

End Of Year Travel-Writing Contest

By Abha | December 28th, 2007 |

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Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and got some time to unwind. I certainly did and am having trouble getting back into the swing of things.
On that note... [Read this entry]

Want To Be The Next Great Travel-Writer?

By Abha | October 30th, 2007 |

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Well, here’s an opportunity.
Travcoa (a luxury and exotic travel company) and National Geographic Traveler have launched a competition in search of “The Next Great Travel Writer”.
So if you... [Read this entry]

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