Writing, photography, and travel are adventures in communication. Would you find it inspirational to have the chance to share your travel experiences through writing and photography? Combining writing and photography increases the communication power of both mediums, and fused with travel, the triple ingredient mix becomes inspirational. For creative spirits, the impetus of purpose and the force of fused mediums become an organic catalyst for empowered creativity.
Opportunities for publishing
Publishing validates the creative product. If you’re ready to dive right in, then consider first reviewing the Submission Guidelines for publications, either print or online, that are interested in publishing travel writing.
- Submission Guidelines for Go World Travel Magazine are available online, and their payment is $30 per story/photo essay upon publication.
- Submission guidelines for GoNOMAD are available online. Their articles cover destinations, many atypical, that are worldwide.
- Submission guidelines for MATADOR Network are available online. Additionally, MATADOR Network offers a free list of “50+ Magazines That Want to Publish Your Writing.”
Web-based publication is prevalent, but some creative spirits also seek print publications. Writer’s guidelines to facilitate pitching a story to a magazine like Travel + Leisure are online as are submission guidelines for an adventure-oriented magazine like Outside.
Additionally, an extensive, online list of travel sites and publications as well as guideline links is available from FreelanceWriting.com. The list offers a quick, strategic insight into the publication, a link to the publication, and a link to the Writer’s Guideline page, when available. The travel writer's list at FreelanceWriting.com is a convenient, free resource, usable without registration.
Edu-tourism and edu-vacations
Would a bridge connecting the fusion of your interests and talents facilitate you? Might guidance in bringing together your travel, writing, and photography help you? It’s possible to go on vacation and acquire a new skill at the same time? A growing travel fusion trend, coined as edu-tourism and edu-vacations, combines travel and learning, allowing vacationers to come back from a trip rested and ready to pursue a new interest with knowledge and confidence.
Jenna Graber, editor in chief of Go World Travel Magazine, noted the unique Edu-tourism market niche, and her insights led her to create "Travel Writing On Location," a program that offers travel writing workshops along with tours of some of the world's top destinations. The goal is to provide travel writing instruction - and an extraordinary destination to write about.
Janna Graber, whose Go World Travel Magazine, covers travel in some 90 countries, indicates, "In the past few years, more people have become interested in the field of travel journalism." Travel journalists write about destinations, resorts and travel experiences for newspapers, magazine and online sites.
Travel and writing workshops
The learning vacation option combines travel and travel writing workshops. "Travel Writing On Location” provides not only classroom learning, but on-the-job experience," says Graber. "Writers experience each destination with our professional guides— trying new activities, interviewing experts and experiencing the culture— while learning the skills they need to be a travel writer."
The workshop/tour combinations vary in length, focus and destination. Upcoming workshops include a stay an authentic dude ranch experience in Colorado to exploring Native American heritage in Santa Fe to an 8-day tour and workshop in Bali. Costs are similar to the cost of a normal vacation package, and workshop/tour combos start at $995. Accommodations, tours, activities, workshop classes and most meals are included.
Great fit with baby boomers
Opportunity knocks most fiercely at various times in creative lives. Audience Insights on Baby Boomers, based on CDC research, indicates edu-tourism and edu-vacations, are especially popular with the Baby Boomers generation. These days, travelers can learn Spanish in Costa Rica, take up dance in Spain, study wine in California or learn to cook in France.
Among the findings of Audience Insights, are critical perspectives on baby boomers that include:
- Baby Boomers like to tell their story and the Internet has facilitated their "get it all out there and share it with the world" tendencies.
- Baby Boomers see themselves as "evolving", rather than aging.
- Baby Boomers are adventurous and have a strong desire to see places and species that are vanishing, and experience them before the opportunity is lost.
In relation with the “The Travel Writing on Location” program, Graber explains, "We've seen an increase in writers from the Baby Boomer age group. For many of them, this is a new career pursuit.” Travel, creativity, and meaningful focus, all rolled into one opportunity, hold tremendous appeal.
Slideshows
To view a creative fusion of personal travel (local and global), writing, and photography, check out the published articles and photography on birdwatching and hummingbirds in Arizona, driving Iceland’s iconic Ring Road, walking the rooftops of a Milan cathedral, and viewing koalas in Australia. Enjoy the examples and inspiration.
A lifelong journey
Walt Whitman once indicated, “I tramp a perpetual journey.” Writing and photography are powerful partners with travel. There is a natural union in travel writing that is catalytic to the word, the image, and the adventure. The rich joys of wanderlust fused with the powers of writing and photography truly can spring alive in a fresh, lasting journey that inspires creative spirits.
Find the take in this article to be helpful? National and International Travel as well as National Education materials come from a husband and wife creative team, who travel extensively as photonaturalists and writers. One is an experienced scientist with a doctorate in Material Sciences and background in optics research. The other is former Vice President of GKE (Global Knowledge Exchange), who served as a US Web-based Education Commissioner during the Clinton administration, and was a former US National Tech&Learning Teacher of the Year.
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