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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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Maralyn D Hill July 3, 2010 at 6:55pm

I know quite a few, but unfortunately they are not near the lovely city of Ottawa. Visited there in 2000 and loved it.
Ursula Maxwell-Lewis July 3, 2010 at 6:50pm

Does anyone have any good recommendations for excellemt blogging, social media in general and video workshop presenters for a conference in the Ottawa/Toronto area? If so, would be pleased to hear from you. Thanks
David Paul Appell June 30, 2010 at 7:28pm

A teen aspiring to be a travel writer has a couple of very good questions on Ask a Travel Expert... click here to reply.
David Paul Appell June 30, 2010 at 5:26pm

A Tripatini member has an interesting question about a first-of-its-kind hotel... please check it out on Ask a Travel Expert. Thanks!
Emma Kate Henderson June 29, 2010 at 6:27pm

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Colin J. Holden June 24, 2010 at 2:39am

I am developing a series of articles on travel for the disabled - business and leisure travel; land, sea and air; individuals and groups with and without care-givers. If anyone has any input, suggestions, leads - I would appreciate hearing from you.

Regards,

Colin
colin@odysseymediagroup.com
Susan Frost June 15, 2010 at 7:17pm

This is an excellent discussion. I am wondering if anyone is receiving replies to queries via Tweets from editors at NYT? I'm not receiving any response by email to my queries about my July 1-10 trip to New England (CT, RI, ME).
Maralyn D Hill June 15, 2010 at 6:23pm

I agree that a mix is necessary in any marketing plan. The Internet has brought so many of us together from all over. I know at IFWTWA we are getting more and more members from Australia and we're excited about the growing number. Happy to meet you here.
Jennifer Merigan June 15, 2010 at 4:10pm

This is so interesting to read everyone's perspective on social media - i tend to use facebook and have connected that to tweeter so whatever i update facebook with automatically updates the twitter account - but at the end of the day the core product i work for is a newspaper but i see the potential of social media either helping to increase readership or creating a whole new audience which i am finding on facebook! A little local newspaper in Western Australia can now reach the world and i really want to explore that further. I love social media and i love the way the world is so connected now (like me on this network - especially when you live in the world's most isolated capital city) - but at the end of the day it is finding the mix that suits you best but a 'mix' i believe is a must.
Allan Lynch June 15, 2010 at 2:09pm

Thanks Barbara and Maralyn. Yours are the first concrete examples of how tweeting has worked for anyone. Last year at World Travel Mart the head of one destination asked if followed them on Twitter. I said no, I haven't the time. She laughed and said she doesn't read them either, and that they only tweeted to cover their asses with their partners.

But I do think it might also be a cultural thing, rather than fuddy-duddiness. I still get editors responding to my email queries. And they're still handing out assignments that pay high three and low four figures.

If I ever get the time to launch the blog I have planned, it may help drive eyes to it. Only in the last several weeks have I had reason to go back and identify all the articles I've written in the last 20 years (the copyright collective I belong to is having a "Payback Year" where we are being recognized with cheques for the number of articles we're written and the number of pages they cover). Traditionally, I get $700-$900 a year for the previous year's photocopying rights, but this should be more handsome since the cheque pool is larger and more targeted. And then I'm part of a class action copyright suit that was settled for $11 million (alas, the lawyers get about almost $6 of that). So, I've been hesitant to put too much of my work on the web while it's still kicking off old technology, old copyright income.