Travel Writing
“We want you to know we’re here” On Wednesday, as I was sat at Geneva airport, I was sent a rather interesting tweet. @Odinsson2 had a question to ask. “Operators like us just want people like you to know we’re here when you want us. PRESS4TRAVEL any good?” I followed up by e-mail, and Ian [...]
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The honesty survey A couple of weeks ago, I ran a post that I called ‘The Travel Blogger Honesty Survey’. Basically, I was a little sick of hearing all and sundry bang on about how to make money from blogging when few people are prepared to admit how much they actually make from blogging. Anonymity? [...]
Theories of monetising travel blogs For all the blog posts about how to monetise a travel blog (and I think 500 new ones get written every day), the subject keeps coming up. Everyone’s elaborated on their theory of how to make money from travel blogging and most of the usual suspects (including myself) have had [...]
Making money from travel blogging (again) It’s been ooh, at least two weeks, since the issue of how to make money from travel blogging has done the rounds on the web. It is a topic that many proclaim to be bored of, squealing that the conversation should move on. That’s a bit like saying you [...]
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Going through a few old folders on my computer earlier, I came across something I must have written eight or nine years ago. This was back in another life when I was editing a backpacker magazine in Australia. We’d have a pretty high turnover of staff working for three month blocks before going off travelling. [...]
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Andalucia minus the Costa del Sol My attention has been drawn to a mini-row rumbling along on Lonely Planet’s Thorn Tree forum. It seems as though the Lonely Planet’s new Andalucia guide has not covered Marbella and the Costa del Sol. According to the first commenter, the guide dismisses the area as not worth bothering [...]
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Australia’s tourism problems Tourism in Australia is currently struggling. It doesn’t take a genius to work out why – the Australian dollar is so high at the moment that it makes the country extremely expensive to visit. There’s no point pretending otherwise, which is why Ben Groundwater’s recent post on the Sydney Morning Herald website [...]
Dear hotel receptionists, Imagine someone comes into your hotel. They say they’re a journalist, and would like to see a room as they’re writing a city guide and need to recommend places to say. What do you think they’re asking for? Is it (A) to see a room? Or (B) to pointlessly swap business cards [...]
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Samoa skips a day The newspapers today are full of the news that the Pacific nation of Samoa has decided to skip a day by moving to the other side of the International Date Line. The idea is to be in roughly the same time zone as trading partners in Australia and New Zealand, but [...]
I’m going to be away for the whole of April, as I’m getting married then going on honeymoon. Frankly, I’ve got better things to be doing than updating this blog, so it’s all going to go a little quiet for a month. In the meantime, however, I want to give a little credit to Roundtheworldflights.com [...]