So, what are some of the other things travel writers are looking for when we’re judging a hotel? If you’ve just joined me, read part 1 here. The bathroom: is it clean and spacious with lots of light? Is there a rain shower or shower with good water pressure? Does the shower stay up and … Read more about How travel writers select hotels: the criteria we use, part 2
As travel writers, we don’t wait for the site inspection to start ticking the check boxes. We begin judging a hotel from the moment we arrive. If we’re pulling up in a car loaded with luggage and camera gear, we don’t want to have to search for someone to help with our bags and find out where … Read more about How travel writers select hotels: the criteria we use, part 1
How travel writers decide upon which hotels they are going to include in a guidebook or story is a topic that received some media attention earlier this year after Lonely Planet writer Thomas Kohnstamm revealed in his tell-all book how he’d favorably reviewed a place after having sex with the waitress on a table. How … Read more about How travel writers select hotels
Hotel gurus Mr and Mrs Smith recently shared their secrets as to How Smith finds hotels on their engaging blog. Mrs Smith is a Cool Travel Guide reader and after she recently commented on my post Don’t judge a guidebook by its cover: judge it by its author, I asked her how she selects hotels. Mr and … Read more about How travel writers ‘discover’ hotels
This post continues from yesterday’s post in response to a reader’s request for advice on developing a freelance travel writing career and financing research trips: 11. When you get a guidebook commission Start pitching story ideas on the destination – the fee for a single story could equal a quarter of your guidebook fee. Sell enough … Read more about Developing your travel writing career: commissions and content gathering, part 2