The New York Times’ “Frugal Traveler,” Matt Gross, was in attendance at last night’s talk, “Travel Gets Social: The New Planet of Travel Media,” when discussions turned to the prospect of the future of travel journalism.
In a remarkably candid, but refreshingly sober, examination of his personal employer, Matt admitted that should the Grey Lady cease to exist one day, or at least reduce back even additional dramatically than it previously has, he has normally wondered what the demand in the the marketplace would be for a stand-alone Frugal Traveler web site, with reader-primarily based guidelines as to wherever to go and what to do.
Payment, he mused, could be collected by way of a PayPal donation box on the web page, with tourism agencies and readers alike supporting his travels. Sort of like the guys you see enjoying mariachi music in the subway on the weekends.
What do you think? Is this the long term for Matt? Is this even a viable plan? Haven’t men and women attempted this just before?
In my viewpoint, as fantastic as Matt is, the sad actuality is that it is typically the identify way above the byline that draws the readers. There will usually be great independent travel publications (whoo-hoo) and bloggers, but let’s encounter it, it requires a thing like the New York Instances to genuinely draw the eye-popping quantity of readers and advertisers.
It’s up to the Instances to adapt to the times, and not up to its writers, if quality travel journalism is going to survive in the future. Otherwise, time to snap up the URL: www.thefrugaltraveler.com
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