New! The ultimate tool for pitching travel stories
We've worked with Sarah Gillespie to create the tool that'll transform your pitching game
We can probably all agree that pitching is the worst part of this job. The hours spent researching the piece and the publication you’re pitching to. The anxiety of losing your place on a press trip because you might not be quick enough to get the commission. And all the rejections. So. Many. Rejections.
Most of us don’t struggle because we lack ideas, but because we don’t know where those ideas belong or how to shape them so editors say yes.
That’s why we’ve worked with award-winning travel writer, Sarah Gillespie, to create something new: the Travel Pitching Index.
Sarah's a Glasgow-based travel writer who's been published in most major UK titles, National Geographic Traveller, Travel + Leisure and many more. She's also the most systematic person we know when it comes to pitching. She reads publications cover-to-cover and takes notes on what they publish, who edits which sections and how freelancers fit in.
She's now turned those notes into The Travel Pitching Index: a database covering 37 leading travel publications from around the world.
Each publication profile includes:
Publication insights for 37 top travel titles with easy-to-digest overviews of who they are and what they prioritise
Clear breakdowns of sections open to freelancers, including typical word counts, structures, formats and story angles for each section of the publication
Current rates at a glance so you know what you’re pitching for and whether it’s worth your time
Editor mastheads and email formats to stop you spending precious time hunting down contact information
It's not a list of publications. It's the research you'd do yourself if you had 10 spare hours to read and analyse each outlet.
The Index is subscription-based (from £5.41/month on an annual plan) and gets updated quarterly as editors move, rates change, and formats shift.
Launch bonus: If you subscribe in the next 48 hours, you’ll also get our Pitch Pack (normally £23.99) free. It includes 18 commissioned pitches from seven award-winning writers, so you can see exactly how professionals structure their emails.