Becki Enright 🌎

Istanbul's plan to save its cultural soul bbc.com/travel/article… via @bbc_travel

@BenParker90 @Independent @IndyTravel Fabulous news, congratulations!!

📣 Some news to jump-start the second half of 2024... 
Tickled pink to share that, as of today, I've been promoted to travel editor at @Independent. 
Looking forward to continuing the work with an exceptional team (including our brilliant freelancers) 🎇

@lottiecgross Congrats! You certainly own that niche now! 💪🏻 🐾

I have long been a little embarrassed by my new-ish niche of dog travel writing. But sod that! With news that I have sold out my advance in the first month of publication of my latest book, DOG DAYS OUT, I am firmly and proudly leaning into being The Dog Travel Writer™️ 🤣🎉🐾

@KatieHammel @pointmetravel Congratulations! 🙌🏻

Oh hey, Graz, it’s been a while. Austria’s most underrated city, hands down. Good to be back and dig more into its sustainable, social impact and green credentials. (Ad) #traveldeepergraz | #visitgraz | #grazlove

@cherrysberries May I suggest a Viennese response: “I don’t smoke but if you insist… I’ll smoke it right here for you.” 😂

@charukesi Absolutely not.

As if as a #freelancer I don’t deal with enough shit, a new to me editor came back with a range of rates (super low to start with). Final fee will be decided by her boss after I submit the copy and they vet it for quality of writing, depth of reporting and ease of editing 😡

@VodafoneUK @glastonbury 8 🙃

📣 Win 2 tickets to @Glastonbury 2024 📣 Who wants to join us this summer? 🤩 To enter just tell us in the comments how many emojis you can spot hiding in the festival pic👇 Ts&Cs: vodafone.uk/WinGlasto24

@thatkatieberry @commonwanderer

This is how you get a dead internet. 🪦 Meta is now repurposing content from food bloggers and summarizing articles across various platforms using AI. Coupled with SGE and the prioritization of large brands and sites like Reddit and Quora in top search results, it’s now pointless for small publishers and non-commercial site owners to produce or share original content. What 𝘆𝗼𝘂 platforms and even the big media sites 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘁 seem to grasp is the logic bomb you’re writing into your business plan by destroying small creators through stealing their work. Yes, users may find the oatmeal blandness of regurgitated, AI-groomed content satisfying. For a while. But eventually, they’ll lose interest, even if they (and you) can’t 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗻 why. Dopamine deprivation is why — 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 need dopamine, especially when they’re losing jobs and businesses for reasons beyond their control (but within yours). If anything, using AI summaries turns people off, and trying to solve it 𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗵 to surface “hidden gems” is polymorphic: it just introduced more of the same blandness via content theft and spam. Meanwhile, you’re alienating the dopamine creators: millions of small sites you’re destroying through exploitation of their work in your greed to keep audiences to yourselves. Will you lose users overnight? No. For now, AI is novel to everyone and you’re so drunk on the newness of adding it to your platform to 𝘀𝗲𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻 and anticipate what happens when you don’t factor in all the other things making people weary. Or that you’ve become one of those wearying things by destroying the creators who supplied you with the novelty your users want. TL;DR Dear platforms, your math is flawed. When you do implode, look back and you’ll see the reason you were too greedy and dismissive to grasp.

Would you be tempted to visit a country that’s 60% mountainous with more than 400 beautiful bathing lakes? If so, then #Austria is the outdoor haven you need to explore. @BordersofAdv shares Austria’s best summer lakes here 🇦🇹 weather2travel.com/blog/best-lake…

@lfnand Interested to know more! 👩🏼‍💻

Looking for fellow travel experts, journalists, writers to join my new travel business - excellent potential to monetise our work better! Please give me a shout if you’re interested or know anyone who might be. Lisa x

@lindsay_kusiak Hi Lindsay. I live here - have sent you a DM

Looking to speak with long-time residents of Vienna, Austria about the cultural impact and history of The Spanish Riding School for a story. DM or email here: Lindsay.kusiak@gmail.com Thanks! #journorequest

@Austen1stDrafts @legalnomads 😂

Me: You will never believe this. My offline friend: This better not be about Kate Middleton again. Me:

@worldlyadventur @TTWnewsletter But when it comes to a specific story, I don’t see the reason why an outsider can’t go in and cover it. It’s our job to find an angle, research, and interview. And the travel writer never typically claims to be a local expert.

@worldlyadventur @TTWnewsletter I think when it comes guidebooking it’s helpful if somewhere lives in the destination, or at least visits regularly - you are compiling lists of places it would be impossible to get through in a couple of weeks. Plus having a better understanding and nuance of the culture.

Does anyone have any opinions on "parachute" travel journalism? (i.e. visiting a country w/ which you have no connections to write a story & then leave again) Should only people based in a destination write about it? For @TTWnewsletter, obviously

Delighted to be a finalist in the 'Blogger of the Year' category at the #TravMediaAwards 2024. At a time when independent publishers are being crushed by the latest algorithms, it's a great feeling to know your work stands out. Congratulations to everyone nominated! @TravMedia_UK

Happy "let's see how much Google's new core update will fuck my site" month to everyone who celebrates

@jenrosesmithvt @worldlyadventur some more insights for you, too.

@lottiecgross 👋🏼

All you other type two writers, where you at!?

@lfnand Revelation

Apparently there is a trend on TikTok called ‘silent walking’ which is meant to be good to your mental health. Apparently it is just walking without headphones.