Travel writing is writing about places, persons, and things in other places--also writing about how to travel, when to travel, and advice on traveling–all with the reader in mind. It’s about relaying your travel experiences to others so that they may emulate them or at the very least not make the same mistakes you did. And it’s writing about things in your own back yard that are exotic to everyone else---a local farmer's market, historic site, restaurant, museum.

To be a good travel writer, you need to be ON all the time, not just when you want to. When you’re on vacation, you do what you want when you want. You’re mind focuses on the place you’re visiting only when it wants to. But to interpret a destination for your readers, you have to look for new angles on the same old things while at the same time sharing your pleasure with your readers.

But before we go further into travel writing, we need to take a look at the readers that will devour what you say about a place. There are three parts to the communication process–the sender (the writer), the receiver (the reader), and the message. When you were in school, you subconsciously learned that the writer was the most important part of the process because in academic writing, that’s the case. But in general writing, including travel writing, the reader is the most