Amanda Pressner, Executive Editor at Lost Girls World and I spoke this weekend at the Adventure Travel Expo in Chicago. Beyond our spiel about ditching your cubicle to travel, we received several questions about how to become a travel writer. So, we compiled a list of resources for beginning travel writers. All of these websites are a great place to start for freelance travel writing if you’re looking to break into the business, get published and make a little money on stories from your trips:
Websites That Pay Travel Freelancers
Jaunted; www.jaunted.com ($10 post; $15 video posts)
Hotel Chatter www.hotelchatter.com ($10 post; $15 video posts)
Lost Girls World www.lostgirlsworld.com ($12 per Travel Guide)
Oyster Locals www.locals.oyster.com ($25 per post)
Gadling, Gadling.com; $25 per post
New York Times, “In Transit”; http://intransit.blogs.nytimes.com/ $50 per post
AOL Travel; www.travel.aol.com/ ($250 – $400 for 750 words)
Slate; slate.com; $.50 per word
Trip.com; $.75 per word
Fashionable Bride; www.fashionablebride.com; $1 per word
MSN; www.msn.com; $1 per word
Travel and Leisure; www.travelandleisure.com; $1,000 per slide show
AARP; www.aarp.com; $1.70 per word
Travel sites that accept submissions (no payment but good experience)
Nat Geo Intelligent Travel http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/intelligenttravel/
Pink Pangea http://www.pinkpangea.com/
For more visit www.lostgirlsworld.com/resources
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Thanks for the list Paddy. I was wondering how all that really worked. Hope all is well. Cheers!
Looks like the links to the sites might be messed up.
Ack, thanks Ryan! Fixing now, I’ve been M.I.A. from the web this week