A Travel Writer’s Call to Arms

Travel Blog  •  Eva Holland  •  11.29.07 | 1:06 PM ET

imageThe Hollywood writers’ strike is in full swing—I’ll be pining for those sassy doctors on “Grey’s Anatomy” tonight—and it was only a matter of time before other writers started organizing as well. In his latest column, South Florida Sun-Sentinel travel editor Thomas Swick calls for travel writers to take some action. Writes Swick: “Our concern is not so much money but respect. In the literary hierarchy, we fall even lower than the screenwriters and TV scribes in L.A. There’s never been a joke about an ambitious blonde sleeping with a travel writer. We are so invisible we don’t even figure in punch lines.” Swick makes a number of demands. My favorite: “No one is allowed to ask us, on our return from a trip, how our ‘vacation’ was.”

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* Thomas Swick on Travel Writing