BASIC MEMBERSHIP

Basic membership of TravelwritersUK costs £24 per year. This entitles a member to entries in the relevant categories (author, journalist, photographer etc) with links to a website and social media, and inclusions in the specialisms and local knowledge pages. You can also forward several examples for the selected work page, with links to published work/broadcasts.

PERSONAL PAGES

TravelwritersUK members may say more about themselves and their work with their own dedicated web page on the TravelwritersUK site. As well as a generous amount of text, your personal page can display photographs, book jackets, links to website/s, social media, published articles, images, audio and video etc, as well as PDFs, audio and video files. You can forward details to edit or update your pages periodically. A TravelwritersUK personal web page costs £30 for the initial set-up and £48 annually. Your basic  membership entries are included in this fee.

PRESS CARD

Members can obtain a TravelwritersUK press card, which provides free and discounted entry to attractions and other sites around the world. This costs £24 (inc. UK p&p) per year. The design is printed directly to a premium quality PVC plastic card, ensuring a vivid, scratch-resistant finish that will not fade. The cards are standard credit card size 86mm x 54mm and 760 microns thick.

APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP

Each application is assessed on its merits. Do not send the fee until you have been accepted.

NB – PLEASE READ BEFORE APPLYING: 
Membership of TravelwritersUK is open only to professional travel writers and other professional travel journalists and travel bloggers, including broadcasters, photographers, videographers/filmmakers and editors, who live or work or specialise in Britain OR whose work is currently being used by mainstream, English-language UK media.

A track record of paid-for, professional travel journalism, broadcasts, photography or books for English-language UK media outlets or publishers is a requirement for membership of TravelwritersUK.
 If this cannot be verified, it will not be possible to join.

Bloggers not listed on other pages are required to provide evidence to show that they have a prominent, regularly updated blog, using such criteria as Google Analytics pages, Mozrank, a Vuelio Blogging Award etc. Blogs must not simply advertise a particular company, organisation or product or promote a political or religious organisation. You must own and run the blog, and write the majority of blogs yourself and the majority of posts must be about travel or travel-related topics.

Please email us at info@travelwriters.co.uk providing:

your email address;
your professional name;
the town or city where you are based;
your website address (URL) if any.

Please select one or more of these to describe your work:
Author
Editor or travel editor
Travel journalist
Travel blogger
Travel photographer
Travel videographer/filmmaker
Travel broadcaster

Write up to about 50 words of text describing what work you do or have done and a website or websites and social media links and contact email address you would like included. This will form the basis of your TravelwritersUK basic membership listing if you are accepted. Be sure to name at least one publication or other outlet which has used your material within the last 12 months.

Please indicate whether you are applying for basic membership or for a personal page also, and whether you would require a press card.

TESTIMONIALS

Is membership worthwhile? Here’s what some members thought. All comments are genuine and were completely unsolicited.

“TravelwritersUK is really working for me. I’ve secured a lot of work through your website. Thank you!”
 – Carole French, journalist, author, photographer, broadcaster, editor

“TravelwritersUK has landed me some really good commissions. Thanks a lot for all your work on it, really appreciate it.” – 
Annie Bennett, journalist, author

“Just to say that TravelwritersUK is the most resourceful and user-oriented association I’ve ever joined.” 
- Prodeepta Das, journalist, author, photographer

“I have just agreed to write three well remunerated pieces – so TravelwritersUK has generated rather over £2000 for me in less than a month.” – Robin Gauldie, journalist, author, photographer, broadcaster

“I get more enquiries from TravelwritersUK than from anything else.” – Mike Gerrard, journalist, author, photographer

“I really value the site and find it the most helpful for new work and contacts. Joining TravelwritersUK was one of the best things I have done.” – Solange Hando, journalist, photographer

“I got a TV appearance on the Sky property channel through TravelwritersUK.”
 – Mari Nicholson, journalist, photographer

“Within only two days of joining TravelwritersUK I have received my first commission: thank you so much for making this possible.”
 – Duncan JD Smith, journalist, author, photographer