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How to start a travel blog in 2025: ideas and suggestions

AlexBrylov Starting a travel blog this year can be an exciting and rewarding journey, allowing you to share your adventures, inspire others, and even generate income. With evolving digital trends and increasing opportunities in the travel niche, this is the perfect time to launch your blog. Here’s a step-by-step guide, along with content ideas and suggestions to help you succeed. read post

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A tribute to my friend, the late travel media icon Arthur Frommer

The legendary U.S. travel journalist and entrepreneur Arthur Frommer passed away November 18 at the age of 95. Born in Virginia and with an early boyhood in a small town in Missouri, Arthur was a lawyer who became a pioneering and great travel journalist, and who will be remembered as having helped open the joys of travel to the masses. While serving in the U.S. Army in Europe in the 1950s, he got the travel bug, came out with a travel guide for servicemen, and followed up in 1957 with…

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Free access to Encyclopaedia Britannica for journalists

My editor at Encyclopaedia Britannica has asked me to extend this offer to all my journalist colleagues. You are invited to enjoy free access to all its factchecked resources, and if you do link to a Britannica story in your articles, none of the content linked to will be paywalled. Your readers in turn will have full and free access to Britannica's content. To get your free, personal subscription, just go to britannica.com/journalists and enter the code: EXPERT-CONTENT.

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What do you wear to Seven Magic Mountains?

Seven Magic Mountains is an art installation located in the Nevada desert, and the weather can be quite hot and dry. Therefore, it is recommended to wear comfortable and breathable clothing, such as shorts, t-shirts, and sandals or sneakers. You may also want to bring a hat, sunglasses, and sunscreen to protect yourself from the sun. It's also a good idea to bring a bottle of water to stay hydrated. While there is no strict dress code, it's important to dress appropriately for the weather and…

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Donna Hull June 13, 2010 at 10:36pm

Twitter is invaluable for connecting with the travel industry, other travel writers, keeping up with travel trends, conducting travel research and attracting readers to blog posts and online articles. Planning a twitter strategy helps reduce the amount of time I spend on twitter and keeps me efficient.
Ed Wetschler June 13, 2010 at 10:32pm

P.S. to Lana: Thanks for the recap of the seminar for wine journalists. Sounds like you all were right on target.
Ed Wetschler June 13, 2010 at 10:30pm

I find Facebook more fun than Twitter. But the bottom line with Twitter is that if I tweet something with a link, visits to that page go up. And if I want to see how other people are reacting to, say, the Monet exhibition in Philly, I can get an instant answer that's more up to date than google's.
Lana Bortolot June 13, 2010 at 9:42pm

I don't think anyone has quantified how social media--including Twitter--is helping their business. More than being just the newest vehicle for creating buzz, it's for saying "I am here with the rest of you" and seeming like you're part of the inevitable transition in the communications field.

I attended a social media seminar for wine journalists where even the most successful wine bloggers said, "it's the quality of your tweets--not the frequency." Who you follow also matters--again, not the number, but the quality of who you follow. (They also said "don't give up your day job to be a blogger.")
Kat Morgenstern June 13, 2010 at 9:35pm

are there any hiking guide book writers on this list? thanks
Kat Morgenstern June 13, 2010 at 9:29pm

I find twitter pretty overwhelming. So much to read, somehow I feel flooded with the result that I almost never bother to look at it.
Dick Jordan June 13, 2010 at 8:12pm

I use Twitter in these ways:

1) To follow what other travel writers are saying, doing, and reading.
2) To promote my blog (all posts automatically get "tweeted" on Twitter and posted on Facebook via Twitterfeed).
3) To promote good work by other writers.
4) To pass along news stories that I think will appeal to my "Followers" on Twitter (although I now do this less often and post more of these stories to the "Travel News Update" section of my blog).
Chris Christensen June 13, 2010 at 8:01pm

I am with you on the sock with sandals and black socks with sneakers. :-)

- @chris2x
Doreen Pendgracs June 13, 2010 at 7:28pm

Allan: I love Twitter! It has connected me with many wonderful people. Some are fellow writers, some are people who are interested in my latest book. Others are sources for research on my upcoming book. Twitter is an amazing tool that opens up the world to you. You can spend as little or as much time as you want on it.
Chris Christensen June 13, 2010 at 5:48pm

Allan, I do tweet and tweeting to me is part of the mechanisms I use to get traffic to blog posts. If you are only writing for publications then that is less important. I also use it to stay connected and to research ideas.