Travel Writing & Photography
Diploma TWP12B
Journalism, Editing & Publishing
Learning Method: Correspondence with online support

Career opportunities include: Freelance Travel Writer and Photographer, Travel Journalist.

Industries include: newspaper/magazine publishing, television/media, corporate/government.

Travel writers and journalists write for the travel industry, for magazines, for newspapers, for corporate promotional materials and for the broadcasting industry. A travel writer/journalist may perform the following tasks:

• visit local, national and overseas tourism destinations and write articles and features for publication
• take photographs of tourism destinations for publication with travel articles
• undertake research to provide background information for articles
• assess the suitability of reports and articles for publication or broadcasting, within an established style and format, and edit as necessary
• comment on television/radio (in the broadcasting industry)
• liaise with all sorts of people, particularly those in the media and tourism business.