A step ahead of the stomach ache
Posted: November 5, 2012 Contents: Chapter 4 | Tags: budget travel, budgettravel.com, Fran Golden, stay healthy while traveling, travel health, travel journalism, travel research, travel safety, travel sickness, travel tips, travel writer, travel writing Leave a comment »Chapter 4 offers brief advice on how to stay healthy while traveling. Budgettravel.com‘s Fran Golden offers similar advice coaching travelers on how to keep their stomach safe while traveling. Golden offers a few tips every traveler can remember to avoid being apart of the 50 percent of travelers that receive some type of stomach sickness while abroad, he advises:
- One easy rule of thumb: If your lodgings don’t allow you to flush toilet paper, don’t drink the water. It’s a sign you’re visiting a region with an unsafe water supply.
- As for food, “Boil it, peel it, or forget it” has been the standard recommendation. Make sure food is served piping hot. If it’s been left out to cool, it could be harboring a growing colony of bacteria.
- Fly from flies. Never eat food that isn’t protected from insects, which can contaminate even freshly cooked…
Indie tour guide
Posted: November 5, 2012 Contents: Chapter 6 | Tags: eileen smith, indie tour guide, matador network, matadornetwork.com, tour guide, travel journalism, travel research, travel writing, vayable, vayable.com Leave a comment »Chapter 6 discusses opportunities as a entrepreneurial travel journalist. Eileen Smith of the Matador Network encourages the travel journalist to make easy cash as an indie tour guide. Smith tells writers to “Monetize your expertise” and show travelers what your city is really like. Getting started is easy as signing up at vayable.com. Smith offers this:
It’s got a couchsurfery-element to it, but instead of giving your couch, you give expertise (for a price you set) while leading tours around where you live, taking people to secret haunts, hikes, or whatever it is you do wherever you are. All you do to get started is upload a picture and description of the service you offer, and wait for people to take you up on it. Afterwards, feedback (called “vouching” on the site) is key, as most people won’t want to spend…
A local friend in your pocket
Posted: October 20, 2012 Contents: Resources | Tags: field trip, local, travel guide, travel journalism, travel research, travel technology, travel writer, travel writing Leave a comment »As a travel writer, conducting research on a destination while traveling is a sure way
to miss out on some great opportunities. Inevitably, however, without a local connection the travel writer will come to a point when she wants to explore more than she has researched.
Field Trip, a GoogleApp, might just be the traveler’s solution to this dilemma. As Google describes it,
“Field Trip is like having a local friend with you as you make your way through the city.”
Here’s a bit offered by Field Trip:
“Field Trip is your guide to the cool, hidden, and unique things in the world around you. Field Trip runs in the background on your phone. When you get close to something interesting, it pops up a card with details about the location. No click is required. If you have a headset or bluetooth connected, it can even read the info…
Add visuals to writing for a more complete story
Posted: October 20, 2012 Contents: Chapter 4 | Tags: photography, rose walker, travel journalism, travel photography, travel research, travel writer, travel writing 1 Comment »Chapter 4 discusses the need for research prior to travel. While the chapter focuses more on writing, Rose Walker offers this advice in Do Your Research to Become a Travel Writer to researching the destination:
“your next step as a travel writer is photography. Most travel writers take photos to go with their articles and most editors want photos. I am sure you have taken pictures while on vacation, but now you want to take professional pictures to sell. Do your research on what editors want in a photo, but most importantly do research on how to photograph pictures to sell.”
Using Walkers advice in addition to Chapter 4 the travel writer should have a complete set of tools to get their writing published along with some stunning visuals.
