Spent a lot of time exploring the Caribbean islands? Specialist in Creole cuisine? Know the difference between St. Martin and St. Maarten? Then you might want to send your resume over to Shermans Travel Media. The major New York-based publisher is looking for experienced writers to provide travel guides covering hotels, restaurants, nightlife, etc. to […]
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Restless Legs Reading Series: Saturday, Sept 27 in NYC
The Restless Legs reading series, “a reading series for the wanderlust stricken,” will be holding their next reading this Saturday on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Authors Mary Morris (who wrote Wall to Wall: From Beijing to Berlin by Rail and The River Queen) and Ayun Halliday (No Touch Monkey: And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too […]
» Read more...Job Lead: New travel website Trazzler.com
Trazzler is a Tumblr-style new travel website that helps you decide where to go. It’s a new concept that gives you personalised, hand-picked travel options after analysing your travel history and even your personality traits. I recently wrote an intro on the site on Gadling, which you can read here. As posted on Media Bistro, […]
» Read more...World Travel Market 10-13th November – Free Press Registration Open
WTM (World Travel Market) arrives at London’s Excel exhibition centre from 10-13th November. If you’re scheduled to be in the UK around that time I’m guessing you’ll be making a beeline for the Excel exhibition centre too. The annual four day trade show is THE travel gathering of the year in the UK with more […]
» Read more...How Twitter Can Help You Get More Assignments
Just this past week I got an interesting note from a very savvy and forward thinking PR professional. Hi Tim, I noticed your HARO request a few weeks back on new media resources available for travel writers and wanted to let you know that the PR team at Fairmont Hotels & Resorts has created a […]
» Read more...Too Much Time Online?
Because of a trip down to San Francisco this weekend, I didn’t get online for a whole four days… four days! Well, that’s not entirely true — I did have to check my work email and send some things out Monday morning — but for the rest of the time I didn’t do any blogging, […]
» Read more...Win a Copy of Rolf Potts’ New Book, “Marco Polo Didn’t Go There”
There are some books that are just necessary reading for anyone who’s planning on embarking on a lifetime of travel adventures – either long-term nomadic travel or short-term trips where you want to get more out of the trip than an ordinary tourist. And Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel […]
» Read more...Meet the Frugal Traveler in New York
Here are two chances to meet one of the most known travel-writers in the industry today: NY Times Frugal Traveler Matt Gross will be telling stories of his experience traveling around the world and writing. 1)What: A talk at Idlewild Books about the Grand Tour, literary travel, frugal travel and so on. When: Thursday, September […]
» Read more...How In Your Pocket’s re-vamped site acts as forum and practice ground
In Your Pocket guides – synonymous with trustworthy local expertise – really came to the forefront of online and locally-distributed travel content via their coverage of emerging and expanding Eastern European destinations. I’ve caught up with Editor-in-chief, Craig Turp, for the latest news on their re-vamped website. Still at beta stage, the improved site aims […]
» Read more...Video Interview: Talking Travel Photography With John Kaemmerling
Working out the technical kinks to embed the video directly into the blog, but until then, check out Written Road’s new video channel over at Vimeo.com. The first video features John Kaemmerling, a San Francisco based portrait and wedding photographer, discussing some of his favorite travel photos and what he thinks about when shooting the […]
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