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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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  • A writer I know, who writes for the very top titles, told me about a conversation he had with one of the best-known editors in the industry. The editor told him 'I have better things to do with my time than micro-manage content.'

    Isn't that his job?
  • A propos the ignorance of "editors": I complained when a major travel industry mag changed my grammar from correct to incorrect usage. In reply, I got excuses: I was told the editors are overworked!
    When I countered that it takes more time to insert mistakes than to leave correct grammar alone, I was not only ignored -- the mistake was never changed!
  • Is it any wonder that Jim Jones convinced people to follow him and drink Kool Aid?
    Evelyn you also know you've been in the biz too long when talking to the CVB and they don't know about that fresco or most of the other attractions.
  • My niece's husband is a university professor. One of his classes is on ethics. Five times in the last two years he's failed students - who are either health care providers or counsellors - for plagiarism.

    The problem is that plagiarism doesn't sound nasty. Theft, piracy, those words suggest the seriousness of what was done. But plagiarism doesn't even seem like a white collar crime to most people.
  • Ed, yes, alarming. Ditto alarming is the fact-checker for a major magazine I write for who asked me whether the fresco I wrote in a 16th century church was a painting or a sculpture.
  • PLAGIARISM ON THE INTERNET

    A few days ago a professional travel writer who has blogged for Tripatini found that someone had lifted a story she'd written for one website and put it on another website -- with no permission, no payment, no nothing. Call it plagiarism or call it theft of intellectual property; I call it bad.

    In yesterday's New York Times, there's a story about plagiarism on campus. Great anecdote here:

    "At DePaul University, the tip-off to one student’s copying was the purple shade of several paragraphs he had lifted from the Web; when confronted by a writing tutor his professor had sent him to, he was not defensive — he just wanted to know how to change purple text to black."

    These are tomorrow's editors, tomorrow's (or even today's) internet entrepreneurs. Am I wrong to find this alarming?
  • Lisa,
    Thank you for the kudos. I'm glad you like the article.
    Maralyn
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  • What an honor. Maralyn D. Hill has consented to be this week's guest travel journalist on http://travelwithlisaonline.com. Her story, "Wiesbaden, a Fairytale Comes to Life" is a perfect fit and a riveting read. See Visitors Views on my site, or go directly to Global Writes at http://bit.ly/afNklI. Thanks, Maralyn!
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