Get Paid to Travel – Travel Websites that Pay for Articles
Travel Writing — By Lost Girls on January 30, 2011 at 2:20 pm
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Be sure to check out our new Pitching 101 Series, including interviews with:
- BootsnAll editor, Katie Hammel
- New York Times’ deputy travel editor, Monica Drake
- The Expeditioner’s founder and editor-in-chief, Matt Stabile
- Galavanting‘s managing editor, Joseph Hernandez
- Travel Belles’ publisher and editor, Margo Millure
- Go NOMAD‘s general edit Max Hartshorne
- Travel Agent senior editor Joe Pike
- TravelingMom‘s editor Cindy Richards
- Recommend‘s managing editor Paloma Villaverde de Rico
Want to get paid to travel? If you’re interested in sharing your travel experiences, there are several travel websites that accept pitches from freelance writers. Here are a few of them, and what they pay per word or post. If you know of any other great sites for freelancers — that either pay or publish for experience — please let us know in the comments as we’re planning to expand this list! Also: We plan to do a “How to Pitch” series with some of these websites, so stay keep checking this page for an updated list!
Travel Websites That Pay for Freelance Articles and Posts
- Travel Belles $10 per post. Read our guide to pitching The Travel Belles here!
- Lost Girls World www.lostgirlsworld.com ($12 per Travel Guide or “Pitching 101” article) Find out how to write for Lost Girls World by clicking here.
- Jaunted; www.jaunted.com ($15 posts video posts)
- Hotel Chatter www.hotelchatter.com ($15 posts and video posts)
- Oyster Locals www.locals.oyster.com ($25 per post)
- GoNomad; www.gonomad.com; Click here for Go Nomad submission guidelines. Read our guide to pitching GoNOMAD here!
- Gadling, www.gadling.com; $25 per post
- The Expeditioner, www.theexpeditioner.com; $30 per article. Read our guide to pitching The Expeditioner here!
- BoostnAll; www.bootsnall.com, $30 to $50; For BootsnAll Submission Guidelines click here. Read our guide to pitching BootsnAll here!
- New York Times, “In Transit”; http://intransit.blogs.nytimes.com/ $50 per post
- AOL Travel; www.travel.aol.com/ ($250 – $400 for 750 words)
- Transitions Abroad; www.transitionsabroad.com, $50 to $150 per piece; Click here for Transitions Abroad submission guidelines. Read our guide to pitching Transitions Abroad here!
- Slate; slate.com; $.50 per word
- Trip.com; www.trip.com; $.75 per word
- Budget Travel; www.budgettravel.com $.50 to $1 per word
- Fashionable Bride; www.fashionablebride.com; $1 per word
- MSN; www.msn.com; $1 per word
- Travel and Leisure; www.travelandleisure.com; $1,000 per article (Check out their “Web Exclusives” under the “New This Month” tab)
- AARP; www.aarp.com; $1.70 per word
- Matador Network; www.matadornetwork.com (Various). This site also occasionally calls for submissions.
- World Hum http://www.worldhum.com/info/submissions
- Galavanting; www.gogalavanting.com; $15 for all published pieces except features, which net $50. Read our guide to pitching Galavanting here!
- Unanchor: www.unanchor.com; $100 per self-guided tour itinerary
- Locationless Living www.locationlessliving.com; $10 per 250 word article.
- Recommend www.agent.recommend.com; $0.30 per word. Read our guide to pitching Recommend here!
Travel sites that accept submissions for experience, rather than a payment
- Nat Geo Intelligent Travel http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/intelligenttravel/
- Pink Pangea http://www.pinkpangea.com/
- Huffington Post Travel; http://www.huffingtonpost.com/travel/ (Here’s an interesting Q&A with HuffPo’s Travel Editor Kate Auletta, courtesty of caroundtheworld.com)
Some ideas and rates courtesy of Matador.com, JoAnna Haugen
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157 Comments
Who is the guy in that picture?
How do I get paid to travel and write reviews? I love to travel and an amazing writer… I use colorful in depth words that’ll make your mouth water and your fingers dance to book a travel.
thanks for providing all this info. Really helpful!
Erm, can I get paid to travel the world? I would jump on that in a heart beat! 😀
Hi!
I’m an emerging travel writer (I have a few national and international pieces under my belt), and was wondering if you knew who would be best to contact at the NYT In Transit blog? There doesn’t appear to be a masthead on the site.
Thanks,
Laura
Yeh, you said you can’t mix business with pleasure.
I work for an leading english daily news paper printed in kerala. I have nearly 35 years of experience in the print field I want to work on line writing news from India can any one help me??????????.
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Is there an update to this list? It’s very valuable – I always send the students in our teen travel blogging class to this list. Thanks!
I work for an leading english daily news paper printed in kerala. I have nearly 35 years of experience in the print field I want to work on line writing news from India can any one help me??????????.
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I’d be wary of publishing with Gonomad. I’ve had two articles published and I was only paid for one. Now, I am happy simply to be accepted and have my article up on an independent site but since their own submission guidelines state that published articles will receive payment then I really think they should follow the rules that they themselves set. More to the point, although you may receive a peremptory email regarding your accepted submission you will never receive the courtesy of a reply to your own emails. For example, months ago I had two emails from “interns” telling me that my articles were selected for publication in an ebook and would I like a voucher to download my own free copy of the book? Well, yes, obviously. To date I have not had a reply from either the interns or the editor regarding these ebooks, in spite of the fact that they contacted me! I have given up on Gonomad as a reliable website. The courtesy of the editor and his employees leaves much to be desired.
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