Our team curates a little series called "Weekend Getaways" to amplify travel writers with alternative perspectives, unconventional counterpoints, and contrarian ideas about travel, tourism and hospitality. Our picks have included: 🔮 The "Hospitality 3.0 Framework" by Savinien Caracostea with Christopher Gaffney for META Foundation 🍄 "The Ethics Around Psychedelic Tourism" by Robyn Landau for Trippin 🫠 "Eco-Gentrification and The Village Movement" by Nicole Reese for Terrenity Who are the writers you ...

At this week's meetup in Melbourne we met a student who writes a travel journal on his own Discord server, and shares it with a small group of close friends. If you're not familiar with Discord, it's an instant messaging service similar to Slack, where you can host your own "server" to chat with your group or community. Discord is primarily used by gamers and live-streamers, but people are using it for other forms of communication, including travel blogging! Do you write a travel journal? And if so, what ...

The consensus on the question I posted before seems to be that it's okay to encourage travel, but that we need to encourage traveling BETTER, whether that means encouraging choosing trains over planes, taking longer trips, seeing things in a different way, etc. My question now is HOW? How do I as a content creator do that? I mean, just lecturing people about sustainability or whatever isn't going to help. I'd love some PRACTICAL ideas on how to encourage better travel. So far I'm trying - not always ...

Even last year, I didn't consider artificial intelligence (AI) a threat to a travel journalist. Artificial intelligence applications seemed clumsy, and open-source language models primarily silly. I have made an effort to research and follow the development. Although I see a lot of opportunities, I also see threats that the price of billable work will collapse either directly when artificial intelligence replaces a human as a writer or when artificial intelligence makes it possible for people who ...

Hello Travel Massive friends, I am working on an article for MSN about ways to promote your book. Who in our community has a book that you love? I have interviewed a dozen book PR people and I have learned so much for my upcoming book. I would love to do an article about tips from the road for your book. THANK YOU! Happy and Safe Travels, Lisa Niver