How to Write Travel Copy That Sells

Over the last four years or so, we have written an awful lot on this blog about crafting engaging, insightful and well-written travel content. We’ve offered tips on coming up with attention-grabbing headlines, writing gripping introductions and delivering impactful endings. We have examined the role of narrative in travel writing, we’ve looked at how words and images work in tandem and we have analysed the work of the travel writing greats.

Now, after all that, we felt it was about time we turn our focus to a different beast altogether: sales copy.

While travel blogs and articles often seek to inform and entertain potential customers, sales copy aims for one specific thing: to persuade them to buy a product or service. Consequently, it requires writers to take a different approach. We’ve come up with some tips to help you master the art of crafting sales copy for the travel sphere.

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The Hotel Industry Trends that Travel Content Writers Need to Bear in Mind

At World Words, we often find ourselves writing about the hotel industry. Sometimes it’s website copy for a hotel resort like Hotel Villa Franca Positano, sometimes it’s a travel guide for an accommodation rental company like HomeAway, and sometimes it’s a content writing advice blog for a hotel-focused publication such as eHotelier.

Whatever the type of hotel travel content we are writing, it is vital for us to keep our fingers on the pulse of the hotel industry. That’s why we are always looking for upcoming trends and fresh insights into the world of hotels.

On one of our regular research expeditions around the internet, we came across this excellent infographic from Ard na Sidhe Country House Hotel in Ireland. It was so good, we just had to share it. Outlining the biggest hotel industry trends for this year, it’s a valuable insight into what’s happening in one of travel’s most exciting sectors.

The good folks at Ard na Sidhe has have kindly allowed us to post the full infographic below, so scroll on down.

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