Welcome to Episode 110 of my “Travel Tales From Beyond The Brochure” podcast.
Here’s another episode where I run with three ideas and make a small to-microphone editorial. This one’s all about Travel Blogging – the politics, aesthetics, and social culture of it. It was inspired partly by a trip to WTM London, and partly by a post on Instagram.
Topics discussed in this episode are:
Part One: The Politics of Travel Blogging
- The layout of WTM
- The stalls that went big …
- … the stalls that went small, or not at all
- Can we be ethical and still speak to certain tourist boards …
- … and does anyone really care if we are or not?
Part Two: The Aesthetics of Travel Blogging
- Selfies rule
- People like people, and people like to see people
- Am I authentically The Barefoot Backpacker?
- How authentic is anyone when they create their aesthetic?
- The Instagram Husband
- Every Picture Tells A Story
- Why I take so many photos
Part Three: The Social Culture of Travel Blogging
- The Pre-Social Media Times
- Twitter Travel Chats
- Online Forums
- Engagement Pods
- Who is a Travel Blogger’s Audience and what if it’s Other Travel Bloggers?
- Accidental Audiences and Communities – do they matter?
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The two Instagram accounts I refer to are Paulina_on_the_Road and GeorgiaRoseHardy.