Travel Writing vs Travel Journalism PDF

Travel Writing and Photography DAY 1 Travel Writing vs Travel Journalism Importance of Travel Journalism Becoming a Travel Journalist Becoming a Travel Writer Travel Writing vs Travel Journalism TRAVEL WRITING TRAVEL JOURNALISM looks in a mirror; Looks out a window;...

Travel Writing and Photography DAY 1 Travel Writing vs Travel Journalism Importance of Travel Journalism Becoming a Travel Journalist Becoming a Travel Writer Travel Writing vs Travel Journalism TRAVEL WRITING TRAVEL JOURNALISM looks in a mirror; Looks out a window; serves the travel serves the public. industry; pays his own way. subsidized Greenman, 2012  A travel writer generally writes about a place, and does so in a way that allows the reader to visualize the experience. Travel Writing can — and frequently does — serve as a ‘review’ of sorts (aka “service pieces”) intended to encourage travel and tourism, to make readers want to go visit that place. https://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/become-a-travel-writer/travel- journalists/ A travel journalist generally tells a story involving people that is unique to that place, and does so in a way that relays the facts. The intent of most Travel Journalism is to encourage a broader view and wider understanding of the world we live in, to make readers want to meet those people. When a story takes on elements of creativity that have no basis in fact, then it’s still Travel Writing, but definitely NOT Travel Journalism! TRAVELLER The old English noun "travel", originally derived from the French travail (signifying a painful and laborious effort, as in child-birch, for instance). To journey, to travail and, later, to travel, was therefore a test of endurance. TOURIST One who makes a tour or tours; especially one who does this for recreation; one who travels for pleasure or culture, visiting a number of places for their objects of interest, scenery or the like (Boorstin, 1964 as cited by Mehmetoglu, 2004)