CNF Travelogue

Interrogative Questions
• What is the most memorable place you

have traveled to? Why?
• What do you usually remember most when
you travel?
• How does traveling to places here or
abroad contribute to one's maturity?
Travel Writing:
Travelogue
Hope Springs Eternal
by Joshua Miguel C. Danac
1. possessing a quality that
arouses or stimulates desire or
interest (T)
2. moderate ability or value (M)
3. tending to recover from or
adjust easily to misfortune or
change (R)
4. governed by or conforming to
the dictates of conscience (C)
5. marked by extreme or excessive
care in the consideration or
treatment of details (M)
6. full of yearning or desire tinged
with melancholy (W)
Content
1. What things amazed the author during his cultural
immersion in Japan?
2. How do modernity and culture blend in Japan?
3. What overall impression did Japan leave to the
author?
Form and Style
1. What technique did the author use in the
introduction to catch the reader's attention?
2. How did the author present the highlights of his
visit to Japan?
3. How does the concluding paragraph reinforce the
author's satisfaction of his travel?
This travelogue was published in the Features Section of The

Central Scholar, the official student publication of Philippine Science High
School Central Luzon Campus. It won Third Place in the 2015 National
Schools Press Conference (NSPC) in Taguig City.
Content
1. What things amazed the author during his cultural
immersion in Japan?
2. How do modernity and culture blend in Japan?
3. What overall impression did Japan leave to the
author?
Form and Style
1. What technique did the author use in the
introduction to catch the reader's attention?
2. How did the author present the highlights of his
visit to Japan?
3. How does the concluding paragraph reinforce the
author's satisfaction of his travel?
Insights
• Where do you like to travel the most?

• What makes you want to travel there?
Like a painting, travelogues offer a person’s vivid description of places.
• Travel writing is writing about places, persons, and
things in other places--also writing about how to
travel, when to travel, and advice on traveling–all with
the reader in mind. It’s about relaying your travel
experiences to others so that they may emulate them or
at the very least not make the same mistakes you did.
And it’s writing about things in your own back yard
that are exotic to everyone else---a local farmer's
market, historic site, restaurant, and museum.
• We need to take a look at the readers that will devour what
you say about a place. There are three parts to the
communication process–the sender (the writer), the receiver
(the reader), and the message. When you were in school, you
subconsciously learned that the writer was the most important
part of the process because in academic writing, that’s the
case. But in general writing, including travel writing, the
reader is the most important part of the process. If a writer
doesn’t think about the reader before writing, the reader most
likely won’t be interested or might possibly not understand
what the writer is saying.
•Travel writing isn’t writing about your family’s
vacation. It isn’t writing about what you liked or
didn’t like about your last trip. And it definitely
isn’t about writing about destinations so that you
can travel for free.
•The subject matter of travel writing is one’s
encounter with a foreign place.
• The travelogue, the travel diary or travel journals refer
to written accounts by a traveler’s journeys, typically
logged chronologically. Like a journal or a diary, its
primary impetus is to capture all that happens. They
are often written to showcase places as means to draw
people to those locations.
• Travel essay is monologue-like: a specific and
subjective speaker is using the occasion to voice out
his/her experiences as well as the thoughts and
feelings related to these experiences. The experiences
we focus on in the travel essay are physical journeys
toward and/or in unfamiliar places.
Definition of Terms
• Guide book or travel guide is "a book of information about

a place, designed for the use of visitors or tourists".
• Travel journal, also called road journal, is a record made
by a traveller, sometimes in diary form, of the traveler's
experiences, written during the course of the journey and later
edited for publication.
• Travel literature is the genre that encompasses outdoor
literature, guide books, nature writing, and travel memoirs.
Main Types of Travel Writing:
Freelance Travel Journalism
Destination articles
• Destination articles tell readers about a place to which they
might want to travel one day.
• One of the most standard types of travel stories. These pieces
act as the armchair reader’s bird-eye view of a place.
• Useful or interesting facts pepper the writing. History, points
of interest, natural scenery, trendy spots: a destination article
can touch upon them all within the framework of a broad
narrative.
• Where the average article gives readers a sense of the
destination, the best of the best convinces readers that
this is a destination they want, and may need to visit.
• As such, though some destination articles are written
in the first person, the focus is rarely on the writer.
Instead, the destination is the star of the show.
• Seoul Unveiled: A Literary and K-pop Exploration of South
Korea's Capital
• Siargao: Surfing Capital and Island Escape
• Palawan Paradise: Exploring the Stunning Islands and
Coral Reefs
• Banaue and the Rice Terraces: A UNESCO World Heritage
Adventure
Special-interest articles
• Special-interest articles are offshoots of destination articles.
Instead of taking the reader on a tour of an entire country or
city, these pieces cover one particular aspect of the
destination.
• This kind of writing can cover anything from art in Colombia,
ghost towns in the U.S., trekking in Patagonia, alpaca farms
in Australia, motorbiking in Brazil, railroads in France,
volunteering in Tanzania — you get the gist.
Special-interest articles
• Since special-interest articles are narrower in topic,
many writers tailor them for niche magazines or
websites.
• Exploring Literary Landscapes: A Writer's Journey Through
Famous Author's Homes
• Literary Haunts: Exploring the Settings of Famous Novels
Around the World
• K-pop Capitals: A Fan's Guide to the Birthplaces of K-pop Stars
Holiday and special events
• Holiday and special events travel articles ask writers to
write about a destination before the event takes place.
• The biggest global events are magnets for this type of
travel writing, such as the World Cup, the Olympics,
the World Expo, fashion weeks, and film festivals.
Depending on the publication, regional events work
just as well.
Holiday and special events
• Cherry Blossom Festivals: A Guide to Springtime Splendor in Japan
and Korea
• Day of the Dead in Mexico: A Cultural Celebration of Life and
Remembrance
• Hanami and Holi: A Springtime Fusion of Cherry Blossoms and
Colorful Powders
• Cultural Extravaganza: The Sinulog Festival in Cebu, Philippines
Round-ups
• You’ll recognize a round-up article when you see one,
as it’ll go, “40 best beaches in West Europe,” or,
perhaps, “20 of the greatest walks in the world!”
• It’s a classic tool in any magazine or newspaper
writer’s toolbox, taking a bunch of destinations and
grouping them all under one common thread.
Round-ups
• Ultimately, a clear motif makes this type of article a
breeze to read, as they’re a play on the ubiquitous List
Format.
• The premise should be original, not to mention
practical. What’s tough is coming up with X ways to
do Y in the first place, as that demands you put in the
travel and research to produce a thorough write-up.
Round-ups
Personal essays
• Publishers are experiencing something of a personal
essay fatigue, so the market for more might be scarce
these days.
• However, quality trumps all, and a good personal
travel essay is just plain good writing in disguise:
something that possesses a strong voice while showing
insight, growth, and backstory.
Personal essays
• Just don’t make it a diary entry.
• In an interview with The Atlantic, travel writer Paul Theroux
said: “The main shortcut is to leave out boring things. People
write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble.
They write about waiting. They write three pages about how
long it took them to get a visa. I’m not interested in the
boring parts. Everyone has tummy trouble. Everyone waits in
line. I don’t want to hear about it.”
Personal essays
• Finding Home Away from Home: A Teacher's Journey
Through Different Cultures
• K-pop Concert Chronicles: The Unforgettable
Experience of Fandom Across Borders
• Literary Pilgrimages: How Traveling to Authors'
Birthplaces Shaped My Writing
Op-eds
• Have a burning opinion to share? Sometimes publications end
up giving op-eds to staff, but there are always open calls for
opinion pieces.
• Travel op-eds are much rarer than political opinion pieces,
but there’s a pattern to the ones that make the cut: good
persuasive writing. If you can come at a topic from a unique
angle (and argue your case clearly) then you may be able to
publish your opinion.
Op-eds
• The Impact of Travel Bans: Balancing Safety and the
Freedom to Explore
• Preserving Cultural Heritage: The Role of Tourists in
Protecting Historic Sites
• Cultural Appropriation in Travel: Navigating Respectful
Cross-Cultural Experiences
• The Privilege of Passport: Exploring the Disparities in Global
Travel Opportunities
Travel Blogging
How-To
• How-To articles are already fairly popular in magazines,
but they’re positively omnipresent in the travel blogging
world.
• Blogs provide a direct communication platform, allowing
trust to build up quicker with the readers. As a result, for
the search query, “How to travel Europe on a budget,” six
out of the top ten results are posts from trusted
independent blogs.
Travel Blogging
How-To
• A How-To article is the most standard form of advice
column a travel blogger can produce. It’s intrinsically
useful, promising that it’ll teach something by article’s
end. A blogger’s challenge is delivering fully on that
promise.
Travel Blogging
How-To
• How to Plan an Affordable Yet Memorable Trip: Tips for Budget
Travelers
• How to Stay Healthy While Traveling: Practical Wellness Strategies
on the Road
• How to Pack Light and Smart: The Ultimate Travel Packing Tips
Travel Blogging
Itineraries
• Itineraries reveal the schedule that the writer took at a
given destination, city-by-city or sight-by-sight.
• They’re meant for the traveler who’s embarking on a
similar trip and needs a template.
• Typically, you’ll find that an itinerary post is an easy
place for you to slip in recommendations, anything
from the accommodation you used or the restaurants
you tried.
Travel Blogging
Itineraries
• You can use itinerary posts to reinforce your blog’s
brand. For instance, an itinerary posted on a blog
focused around budget travel will probably maximize
cost-saving chances.
• Kyoto's Tranquil Temples: A Serene 3-Day Itinerary
• Island-Hopping Paradise: A 10-Day Adventure in the Philippines
• Seoul in a Week: A K-pop and Cultural Extravaganza
• Tokyo Beyond Tourist Hotspots: An Anime Lover's Itinerary
Travel Blogging
Longform posts
• Longform travel blogging tells a travel story through
extended narrative content, as it takes a week’s worth
of adventure and shapes it into a story.
• Longform blog posts about travel often end up being
creative nonfiction: a way to present nonﬁction —
factually accurate prose about real people and events
— in a compelling, vivid, dramatic manner.
Travel Blogging
Longform posts
• Photography can add another dimension to the form.
Books
Travelogues
• In travelogues, authors record their adventures in a
way that illustrates or sheds insight upon the place
itself.
• Travelogues possess a storied past, from Lady Mary
Wortley Montagu’s Turkish Embassy Letters in 1763
to Mark Twain’s 1867 The Innocents Abroad, which
paved the way for the sort of comic travelogues that
Bill Bryson’s perfected today.
Books
Travel memoirs
• Nowadays, travel memoirs
are practically synonymous
with Elizabeth Gilbert’s
wildly popular Eat, Pray,
Love and Cheryl Strayed’s
bestselling Wild, which were
both recently adapted into
Hollywood blockbusters.
Books
Travel memoirs
• That said, be aware that you’ll need a pretty
exceptional personal story for your memoir to compete
in today’s market.
• If you’re still set on writing or self-publishing a travel
memoir, it’s tricky to balance personal backstory and
travel for 400 pages, so think about taking on a
professional for a second pair of eyes.
Books
Guidebooks
• As Oscar Wilde said, “I never travel without my diary.
One should always keep something sensational to read
in the train.” But these days, people are replacing
diaries with travel guides.
Books
Guidebooks
• Travel writing in guidebooks is straightforward,
informative, and fact-filled. In addition, there’s a
certain amount of responsibility that comes with the
job.
Tips for Travel Writer
• Prior to your visit to a place, spend time
researching about it. The information you will find
may either validate or disprove what you will
personally see for yourself once you are there up close
and personal with the locals, admitting the beauty of
the place.
• Document, document, document. With the various
apps available to you, documenting is a breeze and
you can store in your gadgets not just the photos but
your own narrative which you can upload real time.
• Find the time most convenient to write about your
travels. You may choose to write your travelogue at
night in your hotel, after your hectic tour or once you
have settled in your own place back home. For some,
allowing the experience and memories to be “distilled”
may spell the difference between a haphazardly
written piece and a meaningful narrative about your
travel.
• Include a significant moment or experience that has
made you realize something about yourself or
others, or life in general. Without this, your travel
essay will just be a record of your travel with nothing
insightful to say. Oftentimes, travel writers are
overwhelmed by the novelty of the place and they
focus on the big picture, often overlooking the small
but important details.
• For example, first-time travelers to South Korea would
often write about the usual tourist spots. Why not write
about the time you got caught in traffic Seoul-style
amidst a downpour that was the same but felt different
from the heavy downpour in Manila? Or maybe your
experience of being given an extra serving of kimchi at
a local resto simply for being a first-timer in Seoul?
•Travelogue is a story of the experiences
encountered by someone while touring a place
for the pleasure. It may include impressions,
experiences, insights, and commentary that
support the theme of the article. Aiming to
inform and entertain, a travelogue transports
readers to the place one has visited and
convinces them to visit it.
•An interesting travelogue includes factual
information about the history, culture,
geography, cuisine, people, and language of
the place you visited. However, these facts must
relate to the theme of your travel article.
Observe originality in presenting the facts.
•Show the readers what you experienced in the
travel by scene-building. Describe the place
using vivid words and sensory details. Describe
sights, smells, tastes, sounds, and feelings
literally and figuratively.
• Dialogues, anecdotes, and storytelling can also help
highlight the actions and build important scenes of
your travel.
• Your attitude towards the place you visited will
affect the tone of your travelogue. Use humor and
irony to maintain a light tone. Emphasize the joy of
traveling the place by presenting valuable lessons
and insights you gained from your travel.
General Tips and Guidelines
• As mentioned before, the trick to producing great
travel writing is ultimately simply writing well.
• To that extent, you should make sure to follow all the
guidelines of good writing — not least, spell-checking
your article before submitting or publishing it
anywhere. You don’t want an editor or reader to see it
while it stilll reads lik edis.
• Also, keep in mind the tone, style, and vibe of the
publication and platform (and by extension, your
audience). A story about a moon-rock could go into a
kid's magazine or it could go into Scientific America.
Finally, some category-specific tips:
• If you’re freelance writing, always check submission

guidelines. Publications may accept only pitches or
they may welcome articles “on spec” (pre-written
articles). Some sources only take travel articles that
were written within 6 months of the trip.
• If you’re blogging, brand your website (same advice if

you’re an author who’s building an author website).
• If you’re writing a book, get a professional editor! An

unedited book is an unwieldy thing, and professional
eyes provide direction, continuity, and assonance.
(Layout designers can be important if you’re
publishing a travel photography book, in the
meanwhile.)
• Travel writing isn't a cinch. In fact, it's a long and
often hard grind. But by figuring out what type of
travel writing you want to try your hand at, you're
taking the crucial first step.
Module 8 Task 1: Identification
1. It is a straightforward, informative, and fact-filled that comes

guidebook with a certain amount of responsibility that comes with the job.
2. It’s a classic tool in any magazine or newspaper writer’s
round-ups toolbox, taking a bunch of destinations and grouping them all
under one common thread.
travel memoir 3. It requires a balance of a personal backstory and travel.

4. It is plain good writing in disguise: something that possesses a
personal essay strong voice while showing insight, growth, and backstory of the
travel.
travel journey 5. It is a record made by a traveler, sometimes in diary form, of the

traveler's experiences, written during the course of the journey
and later edited for publication.
Module 8 Task 1: Identification
destination 6. One of the most standard type of travel stories tell readers
articles about a place to which they might want to travel one day.
travelogue 7. It records the adventures in a way that illustrates or sheds
insight upon the place itself.
travel literature 8. A genre that encompasses outdoor literature, guide books,
nature writing, and travel memoirs.
holiday and
9. Articles about a destination or regional events before the
special events
event takes place.
longform posts 10. It tells a travel story through extended narrative content,
as it takes a week’s worth of adventure and shapes it into a
story.

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Interrogative Questions

• What is the most memorable place you

This travelogue was published in the Features Section of The

• Where do you like to travel the most?

• Guide book or travel guide is "a book of information about

• If you’re freelance writing, always check submission

• If you’re blogging, brand your website (same advice if

• If you’re writing a book, get a professional editor! An

1. It is a straightforward, informative, and fact-filled that comes

travel memoir 3. It requires a balance of a personal backstory and travel.

travel journey 5. It is a record made by a traveler, sometimes in diary form, of the

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