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Just What Makes The Best Travel Writing Work? Analysing Top Writer Techniques

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Before one can be a great travel writer, one must learn to be a great travel reader. To read voraciously and linger over the words; relish, absorb and reflect on what it is that makes great travel writing work. Found a travel article that you love? Analyse its effect – a strong feeling, a vivid image – and then pinpoint how the writer achieved it.

By examining the techniques employed in the best travel prose, aspiring travel writers can acquire new skills and help attune their own ear to the rhythms and melodies of good writing. To illustrate the many benefits of studying others’ work, we have deconstructed a selection of praiseworthy travel writing passages. Scroll down to read on.

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Our Travels: Isle of Harris, Scotland

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Here at World Words, we’re hugely passionate about travelling – and, of course, writing about it. That’s why we do what we do. It also means that members of the team are forever travelling the world, whether on a city break or a beach holiday, a rainforest hike or a yoga retreat. To highlight and celebrate some of our favourite recently-visited destinations around the world, we have started a brand new semi-regular blog series. And we call it… Our Travels.

Kicking us off with a destination that is, bewilderingly, rarely visited by locals or foreign visitors, staff content writer Nathanael tells us all about his recent visit to the Isle of Harris, a wild and remote island off the coast of Scotland.

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Nathanael and his friend James by the highest point in St. Kilda

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Travel Writing Advice You Should Ignore

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Since the advent of the internet, everyone and their uncle has been quick to offer advice on travel content writing. However, as content writers ourselves, we know that while they may be well meaning, most of the advice is also outdated, ineffective and misinformed, perpetuating the same untruths and mistakes across the world of content.

Therefore, we’ve decided to help redress the content advice balance, by highlighting the common travel writing tips you should ignore. By pooling the extensive travel writing knowledge of our writers, we have come up with a shortlist of questionable tips that are regularly regurgitated online. From declarations about the death of list posts to nonsense about the vitality of keyword density, here are four common content writing tips you can just ignore.

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

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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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