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How to start a travel blog right now: 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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Dawn Reiss April 28, 2011 at 4:46pm

Hi Everyone. This is my first time posting on here. I'm a Chicago-based journalist who has written for a variety of outlets including: Travel + Leisure, American Way, TIME magazine/Time.com, Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times. I'm going to Paris next week for three days and I'm looking for tips, suggestions. (This is my first chance to really explore Paris even though it is a quick extended weekend trip Fri-Mon.)

I'm trying to find unusual things to do to pitch or that haven't bee(n written about extensively. If you have suggestions. Please feel free to email me at dreiss100@gmail.com.

Thanks!
Dawn
Bev Malzard April 28, 2011 at 7:40am

They change the rules and another country invades them . . that's how it works, For their own good of course.
Buzzy Gordon April 28, 2011 at 7:31am

Actually, there are Internet cafes -- but the power supply is so unreliable that electricity never stays on uninterrupted long enough to finish checking your e-mails!

Even if oil is discovered, international companies will think twice about investing where the military can change the rules (and financial terms) at any time, with no legal recourse.
Bev Malzard April 28, 2011 at 6:04am

Indeed. I also couldn't use my mobile phone or the internet. And I had to change my Aussie dollars to Yankee dollars - they love those. Even though it's illegal for the locals to possess any dollars it's a happy exchange when the dollars flash. I recommend anyone who visits there to spend most of their money at street stalls and local food outlets so the locals keep the dosh! And as soon as oil is found there WILL be foreign investment - from Asia and the USA
Buzzy Gordon April 28, 2011 at 5:58am

I'm sure you discovered, Bev, that you could not use your credit card in Burma. No way there will be the kind of foreign investment needed to build resorts as long as the generals are in charge.
Bev Malzard April 28, 2011 at 5:11am

Burmese elephants are quite literate - but I suspect he was just looking at the pictures to commit them to memory!
Sam Scribe April 28, 2011 at 5:08am

A fascinating image, Bev, what with the baby elephant and the young Burmese woman reading an English-language magazine out there.
Bev Malzard April 28, 2011 at 3:53am

Shamelessly exploiting a one year old elephant in the jungle in Burma (Myanmar) a few weeks back. Visited Yangon (Rangoon) and went on a six hour bumpy drive to the coast. Had a swim in the Bay of Bengal too. Long, pristine beaches that, I expect, in a decade or sooner will be populated with fancy resorts - all depends on the military government - maybe they love seaside holidays too . . .
Bev Malzard April 28, 2011 at 3:04am

Have updated ny blog with a story on North east England and the 'seaside'. Australians have never taken the English seaside very seriously but it does hahttp://getupandgomagazine.blogspot.comve its own charm and the towns by the sea are interesting and tres jolie!
Juan Martinez April 27, 2011 at 3:42pm

South China Morning Post needs some writers who cover luxury travel. I write advertorial for the luxury travel market, but they say they're looking for people who do pure editorial. And they want newsy angles and luxury hotel reviews rather than straight destination stories.
Here's the SCMP contacts page. I don't know which editor oversees travel or what the Morning Post pays.

https://register.scmp.com/contactus.php