Category: Pitching

Matt Barker’s Horizon Guides connect tour operators with adventure hungry travellers, and he needs writers to help him fulfil his mission

Photographer, writer, author and all-round awesome person Lola Akinmade Åkerström describes how she wins assignments with some of the world’s most coveted travel publications

Why pitching without an idea is a fast track to the email trashcan

Four query letters from four different writers that all won assignments at prestigious titles – CNN, New York Times, BBC and SCMP

Here’s one thing freelance travel writers can do to earn more money from each story they write. It could help you earn double or even triple.

A selection of publications, print and online, travel writers should know about

Here’s a formula for the ‘perfect pitch’. It won’t guarantee a sale, but it will at least guarantee some editorial pitch respect

I give my thoughts on what makes for a good pitch, a writer I’d assign to again, travel writing advice and much more