Travel magazines

  What are the best destinations to visit this coming year? Where should you go on vacation? What’s the best holiday hotspot, what’s the hot place to travel to now?  Well, I’d love to answer that for you because apparently it would get shared a lot if I could put out an authoritative-sounding list. Really …

“Iceland is done.” “Myanmar was last year’s story.” “Nicaragua’s not hot anymore.” “We can’t cover Albania yet—there’s nowhere to stay.” These are all actual reasons an editor stated when rejecting a pitch from travel writers I know in the past six months. Add to that “We’ve done enough about Canada.” For editors of the big …

I wrote a post back in 2006 about how magazines don’t really like budget travelers. It was the year I launched PerceptiveTravel.com, partly in response to the folding of nearly every publication geared to those of us looking for value. At that time the magazine Budget Living had folded, despite having one of the most …

You’re waiting in the dentist’s office, perusing the newsstand, or surfing through your RSS reader and you can’t help but be drawn in to the headlines: This Year’s It List! Our Hot List Issue! The Hot Spots for 2011! Where to Travel This Year! It’s a tactic as old as magazines themselves and it’ll probably …