Learning from TBEX
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…
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1321 posts · publishing since 2002Why Southeast Asia is a Great Home Base for Travel Writers
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 →Learn Travel Writing from Rolf Potts
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, Blog About Food, Get Paid $10,000
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 →Be the Next BootsnAll Travel Writer!
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 →Translators and Language Specialists Needed for Where I've Been
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 Wants Travel Bloggers for Miami, Charlotte, Boston & Honolulu
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 Seeks Travel Bloggers; Various Locations
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 →AFAR: A New Travel Magazine!!!
Yesterday I received the premier issue of AFAR magazine in the mail. I was beyond impressed. There were travel stories about off beat international locals and there wasn't a tie in to a Marriot resort to…
Read more →Be Trazzler's first travel writer-in-residence, in New York City
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 →Shameless Self Promotion: New World Review Launches
I've become increasingly worried about the state of the media as newspapers cut staff and magazines fold left and right, so I have felt a growing urge to begin posting something significant on the web. It…
Read more →An Irreverent Curiosity Releases Thursday, Signings/Readings to Follow
Just thought I would mention that David Farley , who we interviewed here , will be promoting the release of his new book An Irreverent Curiosity: In Search of the Church's Strangest Relic in Italy's…
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