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

Date: 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 yet disclosed) will talk about their blogs and there will be an open forum for you to interact with them — questions, comments, what you [read more]

The Beginning Of Travel-Publishing?

Date: September 3rd, 2007 |

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Ever wondered when the travel-publishing industry began, in what form, by whom, how, and with what intention?
Honestly, I never did until I came across this piece on an exhibition that is displaying a set of Europe’s first printed travel images and maps from the Middle Ages and Renaissance period.
In those days, traveling to faraway [read more]

Lonely Planet’s Pick & Mix

Date: August 24th, 2007 |

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Guidebooks in PDF format have been around for awhile and I’ve never found them much of use. I have a couple of guides from various publishers stuck in a folder somewhere on my computer that I never go into. But now Lonely Planet has announced that they have Pick & Mix chapters availiable for [read more]

World Nomads/Lonely Planet Travel Film Scholarship

Date: June 19th, 2007 |

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World Nomads and Lonely Planet have announced a Video Documentary Scholarship, the next in the series of World Nomads Travel Scholarships, and is calling for applications.
The winner will travel to the Kiwanje Ndege Primary School, in the Laikipia region of Kenya as part of a World Expeditions community project travel trek and will be tutored [read more]

Global Travel Writers new website

Date: April 11th, 2007 |

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This may not be so much of use to writers, but good news for editors looking to fill assignments. Global Travel Writers, which is an alliance of Austrailian Writers and photographers, have just redesigned their website to make it far more user friendly for editors and publishers.
Visitors can now read on-line synopsis of features [read more]

What Travel-Writer Personality Are You?

Date: January 28th, 2008 |

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For those of you who haven’t seen this already, Rucksack Wanderer Tim Patterson over at Brave New Traveler has come up with 6 most original travel-writer personalities:
-The Intrepid Monk
-The Epic Adventurer
-The Naked Introvert
-The Walking Party
-The Public Relations Professional
-The Guidebook Writer
Read and and have a giggle over the descriptions, he plays with numerous interesting characteristics of [read more]

Hidden Europe

Date: August 29th, 2007 |

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Summer is almost over here in Madrid. People are starting to get back to work and not wearing shorts anymore.
Other than a zillion visitors (aka sangria and more sangria) throughout summer, I haven’t really done much other than urrr…ummm…browse the Internet. See, it is part of my job you know
Anyway, I repeatedly [read more]

Write for Lonely Planet…

Date: August 9th, 2007 |

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…on FACEBOOK.
Yes, oh my goodness - everyones on it! It seems to be invading the Internet by becoming this super informative portal where you can interact with anyone and everyone you’ve wanted to. I wonder how long this fad will last.
Anyway, coming to the point: I might have caught on to this LP Facebook group [read more]

Wow Wow Wee Waa; Borat to pen Travel Guide

Date: June 15th, 2007 |

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As the author to a few guidebooks, maybe I should be somewhat offended by this, but for some reason I want to buy it. Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev (AKA British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen), has inked a deal with Flying Dolphin Press, an imprint of Random House Inc.’s Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group, to write a [read more]