Travel Writing & Photography
Diploma TWP12B
Journalism, Media & Photography

What could be more blissful than roaming around Australia—or the world—writing about your travel adventures and taking photographs?

Thousands of people do it and you can too. You can become a travel writer and photographer and work your way around the world, you can pay off your camping trip around Australia or you can make it your permanent career.

The role of a travel writer and photographer is an exciting one and lots of people do it and earn a good income. Some people write about travel destinations for travel magazines and brochures. Some write about hotels and accommodation or guides. Others write about the food and restaurants, even the nightlife in different countries. There is an absolutely enormous market for travel related articles.

One of our students teaches English overseas and writes about his experiences in between the teaching assignments. Another student travels around Australia with her husband and writes about her daily adventures, sending the stories into a local paper. Another student travels from country to country writing about places of historical significance.There are hundreds of other ways you can use travel writing skills to see the world and get paid.

For the most part, travel reporting is relatively simple. You don’t need to be a literary or photographic genius. The main ingredient to being a successful travel writer is to be able to make a story interesting.

This course will teach you how to do this. What’s more, whether you are a person who likes writing and wants to supplement your story with a photo, or a person whose first love is photography, where the story is second to the picture, you will find this course beneficial.

This is an intensely practical course. You will learn how to write travel articles while on the go overseas, how to put together articles while trekking around the countryside, and how to write destination pieces after you’ve returned from holidays. Travel writing, ah ... this is the life!

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.