How to Become a Professional Travel Writer

Advice from 50 years of international assignments

How to Become a Professional Travel Writer takes you way beyond that much-touted dream of ‘travelling for free’. This book will show you how to earn from your travels and, more than that, how to carve a privileged lifestyle out of that dream.

Whether you want to kickstart a career as a globe-trotting travel writer or simply to make extra cash by monetising your holidays, this book will tell you how. Increasing numbers of people are finding ways to work remotely and, with digital nomadism becoming an enviable life-choice for many, there are growing opportunities to count on freelance writing as an enjoyable and lucrative source of income.

This book won't tell you how to write; instead, it goes into the practical details of how to set yourself up as a professional travel writer. Chapters include What to expect from a career on the road; What it takes to be a professional travel writer; How to pitch stories editors want; How the finances work; How to work with PRs and sponsors; and more.

There is magic in writing. This book will show you how to harness it and, having done so, it will guide you along a no-nonsense path towards consolidating your position in one of the world’s most exciting careers.