Travel Fashion Girl is a blog for female travelers. They share packing tips, travel fashion trends, travel outfit ideas, shopping destinations, product reviews, travel stories, and more. They want freelancers to submit a minimum of one article each month, but they are flexible with it. The articles should have a minimum of 500 words. According to their pitch guide, they pay $0.05 per word.
Family Traveller is a U.K.-based media brand that has expanded to the United States. Their website and print magazine offer useful advice to U.S. parents travelling with children. According to their writers guidelines, they pay $50 for online pieces of 600 to 2,000 words and 0.25 cents per word for magazine pieces of 50 to 1,200 words.
Adventure Cyclist is a bicycle-travel magazine that inspires and empowers people to travel by bicycle. They generally use two types of stories (i.e. feature-length stories and The Final Mile essays) from freelancers. The feature-length stories are about specific areas, whereas The Final Mile essays are “less about locale than about a singular experience while on a bicycle trip.” According to their submission guidelines, pay is negotiable, but starts around $0.30 to $0.60 per word. To learn more, refer to this page.
Matador Network is the largest independent travel publisher in the world. Their main focus is on experiential travel. They are looking for ‘’people with stories, not broad information on a general topic.’’ An old payment report indicates pay of $0.20 per word, but current pay rates are not clear. To learn more, refer to their pitch guide.
National Geographic Travel is a travel brand that tells “visually-driven, unexpected stories about the world.” They provide travel information to people and expose them to new places and cultures. According to a payment report, they paid $0.50 per word. Many of their editors have their contact information posted on Twitter; some regularly post calls for pitches there. To view their list of editors, visit this page.
Let’s Travel is a bi-monthly travel magazine that focuses on “articles with a twist that offer first person accounts of travel in New Zealand, Australia and the South Pacific Islands.” They also publish a few stories from far flung places like, South East Asia, Europe and Americas. Their “readership demographics is luxury”, so if the pitch is about getting by on a few dollars, they would probably not be interested in it. Their feature articles are 800 to 1,200 words. According to their pitch guide, they pay a flat fee of NZ$300 per story to unpublished writers. To previously published writers, they pay NZ$500.
Smarter Travel publishes slideshows and feature length stories on a"range of consumer travel topics, including booking strategies, saving money, avoiding scams, packing tips, best places to go, travel tech, travel trends, and travel tips that represent all kinds of travelers and travel experiences." Story length is flexible but is generally around 800-1,000 words. According to their pitch guide, they pay $175-$300 depending on the story length and level of research.
Hawaii Magazine is a regional travel magazine with a readership of more than 250,000 per issue. It’s for “people who love Hawaii and visit often.” They use freelance writers for “travel stories, personality profiles, stories on activities, history, culture, music, food and environmental sustainability.” Pay rates are not stated publicly. To learn more, refer to their freelance guidelines.
Wanderlust is a British travel magazine. Our previous research indicated they accepted submissions to their website as well as their print magazine and paid £220 per 1,000 published words for feature articles, but current rates are not clear. To contact them, refer to this page.
Travel + Leisure Magazine tells stories from around the world: stories that are big or small, visually driven or essayistic, first-person or as-told-to or service-oriented. They’re interested in stories about a place that is misunderstood or changing, stories about seeing the world in a new way, and especially stories by writers or photographers who bring a new voice to the conversation about a place or topic. They don’t pay by word count; according to their pitch guide, they have a flat rate by type of story. That being said, previous calls for pithces have indicated pay rates of $2.00 per word. To learn more, read their pitching guidelines.