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Travel Writing Tips, Resources & Magazines for the Freelance Travel Writer

As a travel writer, it’s helpful to familiarise yourself with the many Internet resources for the new writer just starting out on a travel writing career. Here is a review of some of the most prominent travel writer portals and freelance writing resources.

Travel Writing Tips & Resources

• Written Road Travel Writing and Writers Resource

Written Road updates aspiring and experienced travel writers with the travel writing world’s latest news, market leads, events, writer resources, books and interviews. Freelance writers can get their regular news about the publishing industry here.

• Writers’ Website Planner

Tom Brosnahan offers valuable advice on travel guidebook writing, travel website building, book self-publishing and internet self-publishing. Learn how you can harness the Internet in an era when traditional print media is going obsolete.

• 1001 Freelance Travel Writer Tips

Great tips on pitching your travel articles to publications and newspapers and finding the best leads by freelance writer  David Whitley. Here you can also get pointers on how to build good relationships with PR people and acclimatise to new countries on the job.

• Rolf Potts

Rolf Potts’ personal website contains an entire section with exclusive interviews with prominent travel writers and travel writing tips for the beginning writer. Learn how to become a freelance writer  of travel articles here.

• Travel Writers Exchange

Travel Writers Exchange is a community of travel writers, bloggers, and journalists. This is where you can trade notes such as freelance writer salary information  and travel writing resources. Share your tips and opportunities on the Forum.

 

Online Travel Magazines

• BootsnAll Travel Network

BootsnAll contains travel stories and blogs created by its members, and lets users book air tickets, hostels and even travel insurance from one site.

• Matador Network

Matador Network is a travel community with a myriad of travel, lifestyle and food articles written by community members themselves. You can also find freelance writing work and freelance travel writing jobs at the Bounty Board.

Travel Writers’ Forums and Newsgroups

• Google Groups: Travel Writers

Travel Writers is a member-only discussion list for professional travel writers, guidebook authors and travel website developers, moderated by Tom Brosnahan.

• Travelwriters.com

Travelwriters.com is an online community for top-tier travel writers, offering them reporting and marketing tools. It has a forum where writers share their career experiences.

• Matador Community

Get travel writing tips from writers like yourself at the Matador Community Travel Writing and Photography forum. Writers share news on freelance writing rates , travel writing contests and writing opportunities here.

• BootsnAll Travel Writing

Find writing gigs, advice and pointers on the BootsnAll Travel Writing boards. If you want to write for BootsnAll, look out for its writing job ads that are occasionally posted here.

Writing Schools & Workshops

• Paris Writing Workshop

Rolf Potts teaches creative nonfiction at the 28-day Paris Writing Workshop every July, focusing on travel writing but also touching on memoir and literary journalism. Learn about working with publishers and the writing submission process here.

• Larry Habegger teaches travel article and book writing classes in San Francisco, Southern France and now the Turkish coast.

• Freelance journalist Amanda Castleman gives online travel writing classes that prepare aspiring writers to enter the writing market.

Travel Writing Associations

• Travel Media Association of Canada

Uniting Canada’s travel media and travel industry, the Travel Media Association of Canada (TMAC) began in 1994. Counted among TMAC’s members are travel writers, broadcasters, photographers, producers and mass media professionals.

• The 50-year-old Society of American Travel Writers supports environmentally friendly travel practices, professional support and responsible journalism. Members include writers, photographers, editors, electronic media journalists, producers and PR representatives.

• American Society of Journalists and Authors

Community where info on writing rates, publishing contracts and market news is shared to help freelance writers develop their careers.

• Founded in 2006, the non-profit Australian Society of Travel Writers is a non-profit organization with 300 members, promoting worldwide understanding and unbiased travel reporting.

• International Food, Wine and Travel Writers Association

The IFWTWA is made up of writers, authors, photographers and broadcasters with links to the food, wine and travel industries. It organises conferences, regional meetings, and media trips for members.

• North American Travel Journalists is a professional association of travel media professionals.  Founded by Bob Nesoff and Dan Schlossberg, this community is only for travel journalists interested in professional development and raising the standards of journalism in the travel industry.

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