Morning Links: How Travel Publishing is Like Climbing Kilimanjaro, a Hasty Cleveland Video and More
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 04.28.09 | 10:16 AM ET
- I like Cleveland. I might like the Hastily Made Cleveland Tourism Video better, though.
- “Navigating the world of travel publishing these days is a lot like climbing Kilimanjaro,” writes Don George in the new Recce.
- The National Trust for Historic Preservation’s list of endangered historic sites is out.
- Harriet Baskas investigates the possibility of solar powered airports.
- Swine flu update: A CDC travel warning urges against nonessential travel to Mexico, and USA Today looks at how the flu might affect the travel industry. Here’s more on the outbreak and travel.
- Good magazine lists five of America’s most innovative public-transit projects.
- Should tour guides in Philadelphia have to take a two-hour history test? Or should they be able to tell tourists that George Washington and Abraham Lincoln ate lunch together? Marketplace explains.
- Finally, who among us couldn’t use a travel tip from Martin Brodeur?
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
Ling 04.28.09 | 10:33 AM ET
Seems there’s a bit of a controversy over the inclusion of the Century Plaza Hotel in the list of endangered places. Apparently, they bent a few rules to get it included, due to pressure from an LA based conservation group.
Robert Downes 04.28.09 | 5:32 PM ET
As an author struggling to get ‘discovered,’ I couldn’t agree more that travel publishing is like climbing Mt. Kilamanjaro. I’ve been frustrated trying to get my new book into stores at a time when the book business itself seems to be melting and newspapers everywhere are abandoning their book review pages. Even newspapers that are still printing run six or more pages on the latest films (“Hannah Montana”) while ditching any news at all about books.
On the other hand, it’s good to have gotten in “under the wire” with a published book before it all goes to hell with digitalization. Some say the Kindle and ebooks will be the salvation of the written word, but I believe they will be the absolute end because books will no longer be precious objects to occupy a valued place in your home.
Anyway, the good thing about travel writing is that it’s just an add-on to the real thrill—that of traveling.
Robert Downes - Planet Backpacker