What should today's aspiring travel writer do? From the Social Travel Market seminar at the World Travel Market London 2011.
http://www.wtmlondon.com/2011/page.cfm/action=ConfSpeaker/SpeakerID=135
2. Who am I?
Journalist
Lonely Planet, CNN, Huffington Post, France
Today, National Geographic Traveler & more
Academic journals
@abigailking
www.abigailking.co.uk
3. Who am I?
Blogger
Inside the Travel Lab
www.insidethetravellab.com
@insidetravellab
4. Who am I?
Doctor
Swapped a career as a hospital
doctor for a life with words and
pixels.
5. Questions
• What should an aspiring writer do?
• Where should travel companies and tourist
boards go for content?
6. How I did it
• Geographical limitations
• Bought a book
• Signed up for an online course
• Started pitching