How to Write a Travel Article: Part 1

Writing a travel article is an onerous task in the modern days, because it has practically evolved as a genre of its own; it is considered as a reflection of a writer’s experience who visited a particular country. In the modern days, a travel article has gained momentum and significance from the economic point of view.

When we trace the origin of a travel article, it goes back to the ancient days.It was Fahien and Yuan Tswang, the Chinese travelers, who had left indelible impressions about India when they visited India. While they helped to reconstruct or corroborate historical accounts, the quite interesting and amusing information provided by their accounts, helped to promote bilateral trade and industry even in those days.     

Whether it is a small country or group of islands like Seychelles or a country like US or India with a vast territorial extent, irrespective of their size, countries vie with each other in promoting their tourism industry, in order to earn foreign exchange. Each country tries its best to attract the tourists from various countries of the world by highlighting its salient features through media like television, newspapers and magazines. In the modern days, web sites in the internet have become a major source for providing information and attracting tourists. In the entire media, it is the travel article that serves as a messenger in providing information to an inquisitive traveler.

Hence, a travel article on the one hand is providing ample opportunity for a writer to share his invaluable experience in the course of his travel in a country and thereby showcase his writing talent and encash it. On the other hand, the invaluable information provided by a travel article serves as a practical guide to a prospective visitor or a tourist and thereby provides a chance to promote tourism in the concerned country and earn revenue.

Therefore, a travel article should confirm to a specific pattern, be very informative, be very interesting that arouse the curiosity of a reader as well as a prospective visitor. Therefore, it is also just and necessary to discuss in detail what a travel article should contain, what should be its style etc.

Since a travel article mostly dwells upon the details of a country, there is more scope for current information and knowledge about a country; though innovation may play a vital role in writing a travel article, there is less scope for any creative talent while writing a travel article.