Travel Writing Competition: Win A Trip To Costa Rica!

By Abha | May 8th, 2008 |

Costa Rica Pages has just launched a travel-writing competition where you can get a trip valued at $3000 to Costa Rica.
Simple drill: Write a 300-word-minimum description of your most... [Read this entry]

Viva Travel Guide’s Travel-Writing Boot Camp Schedule

By Abha | May 7th, 2008 |

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Viva Travel Guides (a new guidebook company focused primarily on Latin America that offers all of their content for free online) will be holding a few guidebook/travel writing crash courses... [Read this entry]

How Important Is Blogging For Your Career As A Travel-Writer?

By Abha | April 17th, 2008 |

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To blog or not to blog, that is the question (sorry for the awful rendition of a cliche). The upsurge and success of blogs in the online travel-publishing industry, has... [Read this entry]

Live Blogging Session: What Do Readers Want From A Travel Blog?

By Abha | April 14th, 2008 |

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An eternal question for those getting into travel-blogging. Folks over at Europe A La Carte blog will have a live-blogging session on this topic. A group of travel-bloggers (list not... [Read this entry]

Questions with the NYT Travel Editor

By Nicholas | April 11th, 2008 |

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Stuart Emmrich, travel editor of the New York Times, is answering questions from readers this week in the Talk to the Newsroom page. If you send them right now you... [Read this entry]

Independent UK Travel-Writing Competition

By Abha | April 10th, 2008 |

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I smiled when I read about this competition: the prize is a 7-night trip for two to Kyrgyzstan They have teamed up with Bradt Travel Guides, known for... [Read this entry]

Get Your Writing Critiqued For Free

By Abha | April 8th, 2008 |

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Over at Nerd’s Eye View you have an opportunity to write 200 words and get them critiqued by Angela Nickerson, traveler, photographer, and author of ‘’A Journey into Michelangelo’s Rome“... [Read this entry]

Travel-Blogging Lead: Writing For Planet Eye

By Abha | April 4th, 2008 |

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As of today I’ve started blogging for new travel community and website, Planet Eye. I have been appointed their Madrid local expert and have to review places, gives lists of... [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]

Call For Story Submissions: Traveling Mama

By Abha | March 29th, 2008 |

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I hadn’t seen the Traveling Mamas website before and I think it’s pretty cool. Run by 4 mothers who are professional travel-writers, the site has a neat travel blog with... [Read this entry]

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