Synopsis:

Traveling feels different today with beaches installing 'Instagram points,' 'YouTube moments' and Mandarin speaking humanoids while Airbnb-type services have brought about a commercialization of traditional hospitality. Correspondingly, travel writing - one of the oldest genres of literature - has evolved from Richard Haklyut's 16th century compendium of items for a whaling expedition to 280 character tweets by @twobadtourists. When Google Search can reveal thousands of images and videos of every place or festival, what can a travel writer write about and how can digital media be used for this?

Workshop Objectives:

The objective of the workshop is to provide aspiring travel writers an understanding of essential skills of travel writing using digital media.

Course Outline:

- Essentials skills for Good Travel Writing

- Dialogues

- Structure

- Humor

- Doing research

- Interviewing skills

- Using multi- media content

- Basics of photography

- Basics of videography

- Making the most of social media

- Blogs, Instagram, YouTube: Which one to use?

- Using social media for research

- Social media for author promotion

- Tips to get published

- Online avenues for publication

- Writing a pitch

- Earning from travel writing

- Different digital revenue models

- Ethics of travel writing

- Creating, sustaining and extending the brand as a travel writer

Learning Outcomes

In such a context, the workshop will equip the participants with an understanding of the following:

- Essentials skills for Good Travel Writing

- Basics of photography and video for travel writing

- Making the most of social media

- Blogs, Instagram, YouTube: Which one to use?

- Where to publish – print and digital?

- How to get published?

- Paying the bills and more from travel writing

- Ethics of travel writing

- Creating, sustaining and extending your brand as a travel writer