What’s a Travel Writer?
Someone who shares their experiences and opinions, loves to travel, and makes money form their articles to keep them globe-trotting for as long as possible.
Travel magazines and websites need to keep their customers engaged and coming back. The best way to do that is publishing fresh content.
You don’t even have to be constantly travelling, as long as you have visited the location and can turn out a nicely crafted article.
Who’s it for?
- Anyone who loves travelling
- Anyone who travels frequency
- Anyone who wants to travel
- Anyone dreaming of global adventure
Skills
- Competent, expressive writer
- Curiosity to search out hidden gems
- Comfortable making enquiries with locals
- Patience to handle delays and travel issues
Start Up
Get your travel documents, health insurance, and inoculations up to date.
Then get in contact with some travel networks. Start with the ones listed below.
Wanderlust
Rova Mag
Go Nomad
Travelista Club
Go World Travel
How You Make Your Income
Depending on the company or network your writing for there may be a list of preferred destination. Alternatively, you go wherever you want, write whatever you want, and then submit your articles to several networks to see who’s interested.
An article of between 1000 and 1500 words should be enough. You can always write the same article in different versions or write several articles about different experiences in the same location.
You’ll be paid on acceptance of your article and if your creative your redacted articles can be accepted by multiple clients.
Unusual or trending destinations may get you higher pay but be sure to liaise with people to make sure you’re travelling to desired locations.
To play it even smarter, get a good DSLR camera and take photos and videos of the best experiences. You can also get paid for them, and you can put them on stock photo/video website to multiply your revenue. (See Become a Stock Photo Seller)
