- This format of traveling report is “intrinsically linked to the global tourism
industry, as the places described "almost always have some established form
as tourist destinations, and the article generally deals with somewhere that
the reader might actually want to visit” (Hannigan 2013). Thus, as Hannigan
(2013) found, there is a tighter connection between travel journalism and
the tourism industry: advertising.
Author’s Role
These authors not only live a foreigner experience through an adventurous
component related to new discoveries and unexpected encounters, as
consequently, earn knowledge regarding a specific culture or finding of a
particular setting, gathering the necessary content to produce travel writing
articles, resulting not only in a human valuable experience but a profitable job,
where these are paid to report a self-experienced trip.
Commercial Travel Writing
Current state of Travel Journalism
As in recent years social media became the greatest vehicle for people to rapidly
search for information regarding world’s venues, an insight to these destinations is
nowadays commonly accessible through the various online resources publicly
available.
Thus, in contrast with the traditional literary travel journalism, which mainly
consisted in long in-print forms of travel articles, describing an author’s personal
experience within a particular cultural setting, currently, travel pieces have
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industry, as the places described "almost always have some established form
as tourist destinations, and the article generally deals with somewhere that
the reader might actually want to visit” (Hannigan 2013). Thus, as Hannigan
(2013) found, there is a tighter connection between travel journalism and
the tourism industry: advertising.
Author’s Role
These authors not only live a foreigner experience through an adventurous
component related to new discoveries and unexpected encounters, as
consequently, earn knowledge regarding a specific culture or finding of a
particular setting, gathering the necessary content to produce travel writing
articles, resulting not only in a human valuable experience but a profitable job,
where these are paid to report a self-experienced trip.
Commercial Travel Writing
Current state of Travel Journalism
As in recent years social media became the greatest vehicle for people to rapidly
search for information regarding world’s venues, an insight to these destinations is
nowadays commonly accessible through the various online resources publicly
available.
Thus, in contrast with the traditional literary travel journalism, which mainly
consisted in long in-print forms of travel articles, describing an author’s personal
experience within a particular cultural setting, currently, travel pieces have
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