Thanks to everyone who's joined our live masterclass series so far, How To Work In Travel Media!
We have one last session coming up this Saturday, February 28.
In it, we'll discuss the economics of travel media (how much can you earn?) and look at photo licensing rates, article fees, copywriting, and more.
If you want to understand how to make travel media a part of your livelihood, this session is for you.
Tickets cost $55; all participants will get the slides + the recording.
See you on Saturday!
xx Yulia
Inside Going Places 🏠
The myth of America The Greatest
The next season of our podcast is returning in three weeks 🥳 and I can't wait for it to start!
We have interviews with a Condé Nast Traveler editor, a travel industry rebel female leader, an author of a groundbreaking book that reshapes what we thought we knew about Europe's Muslim history, and so many more.
In the meantime, we'll continue featuring guests who've joined our platform in prior seasons.
Today, meet Joe Baur, a Berlin-based travel, food, and adventure writer and filmmaker who travels to run.
Joe and I met on assignment in Okinawa last Fall, and we immediately connected over our approach to storytelling.
His latest YouTube series explores the contrast between life in America (Joe is originally from Ohio) and Europe, and questions why we accept so many things that are bad for citizens as normal in the U.S.
Take a listen to our chat here.
Yulia Denisyuk
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In The World 🌍
The promise of transformative travel
Last week, I recorded an interview with Mitch Bach for an upcoming episode of his Tourpreneur podcast.
As often happens in podcast chats, this conversation helped me hone in on the root cause of my frustration with the travel industry.
(Thank you Mitch for creating this space!)
So often today, we describe travel as transformative.
It holds the key to our personal transformation.
It is a way to be someone else for a while, embark on a new adventure, return a changed person.
Since at least the first Eat Pray Love book was sold, we’ve known what this version of transformative travel looks like.
But what we are yet to reach as an industry is collective transformation.
Collective transformation is where travel’s true potential lies.
The opportunity to restore dignity, humanity, and fair livelihoods of entire communities.
The chance to break down the walls that leaders worldwide seem intent on erecting.
The possibility of finally seeing ourselves as bound by each other, in context, community, and relation with other humans.
It’s time to extend the gaze outward when we travel: from personal to collective transformation.
And it starts with every single one of us: from the traveler to the hotelier, the tour leader, and the cruise line.
It's a formidable task, because our industry is entrenched in business-as-usual ways.
But I believe that, as we say in Russian, Вода камень точит (water breaks down the stone). Change, however unlikely and difficult, is possible.
(See case studies: Apartheid fall in South Africa, fall of the Berlin Wall in East Germany. Uruguay's move from fossil fuels to 98% clean energy in just a few years.)
To build the swell of collective transformation, we must start examining our choices as travelers and our decisions and motivations as business leaders.
This is the promise of travel yet to be realized.
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