Southeast Asia has long been a great budget travel destination, but in this day and age of location independence jobs, it's become a haven for people whose office consists of their laptop and an internet…
Read more →For an aspiring writer or a travel blogger looking to hone his or her skills, a travel conference or tradeshow can be a vital tool. For travel bloggers, the TBEX conference is one way to meet others in…
Read more →Update, September 2026: Rolf has continued running the Paris Writing Workshops in all the years since this was written — he still teaches there today. It remains a great way to learn travel writing from a…
Read more →Travel around Asia, sampling the exotic cuisine of Thailand, Vietnam, China, Japan and Korea, and get paid $10,000. It's a dream "job" that one lucky person will be selected to do on behalf of Pei Wei…
Read more →Is being a travel writer your dream job? We're excited to launch the BootsnAll Travel Writer platform — a partnership with passionate travel writers to create expert-driven content on your favorite…
Read more →Although this market lead isn't directly related to travel writing, many traveler writers out there are also used to taking advantage of their language skills for translation services. This post is just…
Read more →AOL Travel is currently seeking freelance city bloggers for Miami, Charlotte, Boston and Honolulu. It's an ideal gig if you've got the lowdown on everything that's happening in your city, particularly the…
Read more →AOL Trave l has an opening for Travel Bloggers in approximately 25 different markets. Requirements : a) # of posts per week: 1-2 posts per day (half free-form on what's new and hot in city, half guided by…
Read more →News of Tazzler's Summer Travel Writing Contest has just come my way. And the theme is ... (they must have known what I'm currently craving) ... 'Oasis'. Oasis 1. n. a fertile or green area in an arid…
Read more →We've all experienced a strange meal or two during our travels. In fact food is often one of the best ways to connect with the culture you're traveling in; nothing brings people together better than a…
Read more →Want your travel writing featured by Budget Travel ? Submit your trailbeating tale between now and April 17th, and you could be the lucky winner of a trip to Los Cabos, Mexico. Eyes on the prize Up for…
Read more →Our friends over at World Hum are looking for a Summer intern to work out of the Travel Channel headquarters in Chevy Chase, Maryland, for 10 weeks, beginning June 1, 2009. Applicants should be passionate…
Read more →What do you do with your travel journal once you've returned home? Craft those quickly jotted notes that were taking while sipping espresso on the piazza into a well crafted travel narrative and submit…
Read more →NileGuide is an intelligent sort of travel guide, letting travelers create their own trips based upon their preferences that are then used to make specialized guide books that can be printed or accessed…
Read more →It seems that nowadays there are few travel writers that don't keep up a blog. And with the rise in social marketing tools (Twitter, Facebook, etc.) writers are becoming equally as skilled in networking…
Read more →It's the time of the year that guidebook publishers begin work to tie up their commissions for the upcoming year. This is when work really begins on the 2010 editions of their guidebooks. Travel writers…
Read more →Happy New Year all! Here at Written Road we may be separated by oceans, mountains and a few thousand miles, but our goals are the same: to become better writers, editors and tell the wonderful stories…
Read more →Found this lead on Twitter and wanted to pass it along. Do you want to be a published travel writer? Go on assignment to Kerala with Footprint Travel Guides! Applications close: January 9, 2009 Kick start…
Read more →If anyone has yet to notice, World Hum , released their new design today. With so many travel magazines kicking the bucket over the past few months, it is nice to see at least one publication that is…
Read more →Have something to say but feel like you don't have an outlet? Then Examiner.com might be just the thing for you. Examiner is an online community made up of a network of experts and insiders around the…
Read more →Travel has come to be associated with important global questions that deal with social issues, environment, and culture. One site, Make Travel Fair , is focused on engaging the travel community on just…
Read more →Part three of how to create video without losing your shirt is coming next week. This week I'm passing along a few blogs I would recommend adding to your RSS reader. Of course this is only a partial list,…
Read more →It's certainly been a busy couple of weeks for the online travel community, with bloggers, developers, start ups and long-established travel companies chewing the cud together on the future of travel.…
Read more →Times are likely to get a little harder for all of us, so I wanted to share this one with all Written Roaders. Definitely worth a pitch me thinks. The gig Michelle Smith at Virgin Media would like to hear…
Read more →With the recent change of the clocks, November evenings certainly have gotten dark. Sounds like it's time to start focusing on writing about warm weather destinations to get you out of the approaching…
Read more →Recently wed New York City bride, Lyla Gleason, is calling out to travel writers for ideas old, ideas new, weddings sundrenched, skies of blue for globetrottingbride. You're not ruled out if you're…
Read more →This lead is for all the young journalists out there waiting for their big break. National Geographic Glimpse , a new multimedia platform devoted to exploring real life abroad, is looking for young…
Read more →I don't have any statistics to back up this statement, but from personal experience and gauging from what I have seen and read over the last year, blogs have definitely become the way to search for travel…
Read more →Running from November 17-20 at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel, Hollywood, California, The Bloggers' Summit , part of the PhoCusWright Travel Industry Event of the Year is a way for travel industry…
Read more →Hopefully there are others -- like myself -- that are based in the Pacific Northwest and can take advantage of this great opportunity. Avalon Travel Publishing (which happens to be the largest independent…
Read more →I'm feeling reflective about pitches and travel features, and have spent time this week revisiting and reviewing my contacts list. And with World Travel Market on the horizon in November it's a prime time…
Read more →Even when the dollar to euro conversion is not in our favor, Europe continues to be a popular travel destination. It seems like there is always another Europe-focused blog popping up with the latest and…
Read more →If you're in the vicinity of Stanfords Travel Bookshop, Covent Garden, next Tuesday, Steve Davey will be sharing his wisdom. This guy snapped the pictures that make the bestselling BBC book series…
Read more →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…
Read more →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…
Read more →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…
Read more →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…
Read more →If you've crafted your inspiring, sometimes hilarious, sometimes heart rendering, memoir of weeks, months or years spent travelling the continents of the world then it's definitely time to design a cover…
Read more →And as a follow up to last week's post ... ...I asked Jonathan Lorie, the director of Travellers' Tales and ex-editor of Traveller magazine, a few questions. How much of a traveller writer's success…
Read more →Travel writer Erik Trinidad is putting together a guide and anthology under a micropublishing venture, World Swirl Press . They are looking for contributors with narrative and service-y pieces about…
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