What Makes A Travel Writer

WHAT MAKES A TRAVEL WRITER? Ever wanted to make a career out of your travels? Have you wondered just how some people do it? We surveyed some of the best travel writers about the technology, apps and social media they use on their travels AGE OF TRAVELLERS 60% 49% 29% of 41+ year old 18-30 31-40 travellers are male 56% 22% of 18-30 year old travellers are female TRAVEL CAREER 75% 4+YRS. 74% females have been 2-4YRS. I travelling for 1-2yrs 12% LENGTH OF CAREER 53% 1-2YRS. males have been travelling for 4+yrs >1YRS. TECHNOLOGY 96% 92% 88% 35% own a camera own a phone own a laptop own a tablet PHONE BRANDS 45% 25% 18% 14% 8% 8% 4% IPhone Samsung BlackBerry Other None LAPTOP BRANDS 58% Other Brand Apple 49% Sony Dell 14% 12% 35% male travel writers had an Apple laptop 57% female travel 14% writers had another brand own 1+ laptop TABLET BRANDS 100% of male travellers use Amazon's Kindle 57% of female travellers use Apple's iPad KINDLE OTHER IPAD 30% 61% SOCIAL NETWORK IMAGE SHARING 100% of female travellers use Tumblr 39% of travellers used more than one 63% 22% 29% 16% 8% 29% 10% network to share images Facebook Instagram Pinterest CAMERA BRANDS 39% 22% 18% 14% 12% 4% Sony 4% Canon Nikon Olympus Panasonic Other Kodak BLOGGING PLATFORMS 73% ITTTTTTTTTTTTTT 18-30 14% 14% of the 35 people in the survey who selected WordPress as their preferred blogging platform, 23 were aged 18-30 4% 19/ of the people in this survey use 70 more than one blogging platform No blog WordPress Other WEBSITE UPDATES Question: How often do you update your website? Every other day 15 Daily Fortnightly Monthly Weekly 13 13 FACEBOOK USAGE 67% of people asked in this survey had multiple Facebook acounts Least Least important important important Fairly Most Fairly important important Most important TWITTER USAGE 10,000+ 1000-10,000 s00-1000 100-500 (21) (3) (7) 0-10 10+ 20+ 30+ 40+ Tweets / day Tweets/day Tweets / day Tweets / dap Tweets/day WEBSITE USAGE Which of these websites have the surveyed travel writers re regularly used? airbnb hipmunk CouchSurfing 23% 70% used CouchSurfing.org 38% 31% used Airbnb used Hipmunk used money-saving sites ONLINE MEDIA USAGE Linkedin 76% FourSquare 25% Spotify 35% YouTube 82% Skype 82% iTunes 69% COUNTRIES VISITED 90% of the travel writers who had visited fifteen countries or more had been travelling for more than four years 11-15 15. (2) (12) (37) Infographic brought to you by: HotelClub Book. Stay. Be Rewarded. Thank you to all the following Travel Experts who took part in this survey: www.mydestination.com www.sparkyseestheworld.wordpress.com www.rachelsromewritings.com www.holiday-island.co.uk www.davestravelcorner.com www.the-shooting-star.com www.theholidaze.com www.manversusworld.com www.facebook.com/travelinglifestyle www.travelandbeyond.org www.estaentumundo.com www.everywhereist.com www.bittenbythetravelbug.com www.888canada.com | www.my-thai.org www.beatthebrochure.com www.whyeyephotography.com www.travjournalist.com | www.mamaliga.co.uk www.terrymarsh.com | www.imperatortravel.com www.fourfootprints.com www.stumbleabroad.net | www.baldhiker.com www.independenttraveler.com www.onstep4ward.com www.thebarefootnomad.com www.livesharetravel.com www.blog.arguscarhire.com www.backpacksandbunkbeds.co.uk www.mylittlebackpackers.blogspot.com www.touregypt.net | www.ouroyster.com www.bookfhr.com www.photosfromhongkong.com www.3badmice.com | www.ontheroadtoall50.com www.easyvoyage.co.uk www.navjot-singh.com www.tnooz.com | www.neilraywriter.webs.com www.tristancano.com www.jacquicurrie.com www.beyond-london-travel.com www.pacific-coast-highway-travel.com www.jon-sparks.co.uk | www.arniewilson.com To contact family: To contact friends: