I recently picked up CNN Traveller and am enjoying their different take on travel writing. It’s quite informative.
Editor Dan Hayes was quick to get back to me re submission guidelines. Though they seem incomplete, I took them to mean that sure, go ahead, send something in but they better stick to these rules.
Have fun, reporters!
From Dan Hayes (dan.hayes@hhc.co.uk)
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CNN Traveller
Writers’ guidelines
Submissions
CNN Traveller is unlike conventional travel magazines in that it does not feature basic narrative articles such as ‘Top 10 spa hotels’ and ‘Five things to do in Venice’.
Articles tend to be focused and issues led, taking as their theme a topic such as conservation, the environment, local customs, economic and political realities, architecture, regional industries, human interest.
Recent articles include:the preservation of India’s tiger population; East Timor’s coming to terms with independence; Morocco’s property boom; the building of Dresden’s new synagogue; the work of missionary aviators in Papua New Guinea.
Readership
CNN Traveller is distributed in CNN partner hotels in Europe, Africa and the Middle East; on intercontinental flights of airlines such as Lufthansa and BA and on the news-stand in the UK.
While readers will have some command of English, they will not necessarily be British nationals so articles cannot afford to be too Anglo-centric.
Style
Numbers: one to nine, 10 and above; per cent not %.
Currencies: local currency with US dollars in parenthesis.
Names: full name then surname only.
Language: formal, except in direct quotes.
Dates: December 12 2003