Travel is a dream to many, and so many are making their dreams come true
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Communities are travel enthusiasts and travellers eager to explore the world through the eyes of travel writers, bloggers, and journalists. Communities include those planning trips and those creating future travel plans whenever the opportunity arises. In this exceedingly digitally dependent era, travel enthusiasts’ communities have spread worldwide, with followers across countries and platforms. So, the target audience for journalists and writers is no longer local or domestic but far-reaching and sometimes extraordinarily spread out.
Also, travel is a dream to many, and so many are making their dreams come true. Many are sharing their experiences with their digital communities of followers and fellow enthusiasts. Therefore, it becomes almost necessary to stand out and write their story authentically.
The primary objective of any travel blog or article is to understand that the intent is to inspire and transpose the reader to another world. By moving away from the traditional “what to do in XYZ place” to a meaningful and purposeful experiential travel-based blog, the writer is taking the reader on this trip with them.
Given that the writer is on the trip, authenticity and authenticity should be a given. The writer should not succumb to cliches and stereotypes of the destination. The reader should taste the food, smell the air’s perfume, feel the thrill of the ride, hear the chaos of new cities, and feel the tranquillity of small villages. The writer’s emotions and feelings should come through.
Be unbiased– we tend to bring our personal baggage, real-world biases, and problems with us on holidays, which clouds our travel experiences and, therefore, our ability to communicate these experiences. Thus, the root of enjoying any experience is first to shed all these biases, travel with an open mind, be eager to learn about something new and meet someone different from us. Once we’ve got this, the writing will become more natural, even if it’s away from the writer’s personal beliefs.
Communities of travellers are reading to get lost in the writer’s experience; to be flown to a faraway destination. While not always a wholly satisfying experience, writers should focus on the positives of the destinations because one person’s impression may differ from another’s; one person may have different encounters with locals from another. Therefore, focusing on the good leaves the reader to judge the destination for themself rather than walk away with the writer’s judgment.