Write for TravelPDQ

Have a great travel story to tell?

TravelPDQ welcomes contributions from travelers, travel writers, historians, guides, tourism professionals, and others with firsthand knowledge of interesting places around the world.

We are especially interested in stories that go beyond the usual tourist checklist — hidden attractions, overlooked history, unusual landmarks, fascinating local stories, distinctive travel experiences, and practical advice that helps people travel better.

Rather than broad articles such as “10 Things to Do in Paris,” we prefer focused stories built around one compelling place, experience, question, or discovery.

If you know about something travelers are likely to walk past, overlook, misunderstand, or simply never hear about, we want to hear your story.

Hidden Places

Hidden Places

Overlooked History

Overlooked History

Unusual Experiences

Unusual Experiences

Why Write For TravelPDQ?

TravelPDQ gives knowledgeable travelers and writers a place to share interesting, useful stories with people who genuinely enjoy discovering the world.

Published contributors receive a named byline, a short author biography, and up to two appropriate links to their website, publication, or professional profile. Accepted articles are also professionally edited and optimized for search, including titles, headings, descriptions, and internal linking when appropriate.

Our goal is not simply to publish more travel content. We want to help worthwhile stories get discovered — especially the unusual places, overlooked history, and practical travel insights that larger publications often miss.

What We're Looking For

The best TravelPDQ articles are focused, useful and interesting.

We prefer stories that take readers deeper into one place, experience, question or travel problem.

We're particularly interested in:

  • Hidden and overlooked attractions
  • Unusual historical sites and stories
  • Little-known museums, monuments and landmarks
  • Interesting people connected to a destination
  • Archaeological discoveries and ancient sites
  • Unusual transportation experiences
  • Smart airfare and airline advice
  • Packing and travel-planning strategies
  • Firsthand travel experiences that teach readers something useful
  • Places that deserve more attention than they receive

Stories That Get Our Attention

How to Pitch and Submit an Article

Start by pitching your idea before writing the full article.

Email us at info@travelingprofessor.com with:

  • Your proposed title
  • A brief 2–3 sentence description of the story and the opening paragraph
  • Why you are qualified to write it or your connection to the subject
  • Links to one or two writing samples, if available

If your idea looks like a good fit for TravelPDQ, we’ll contact you with instructions for submitting the completed article.

Please do not send a completed article until your proposal has been accepted.

We are very selective in the proposals we accetpt.  If your idea looks like a good fit for TravelPDQ, we'll contact you, usually within 7 days.

Submission Guidelines

Articles should normally be approximately 700–1,500 words.

Submissions must be original and not previously published elsewhere.

Articles should focus primarily on one destination, attraction, story, experience or clearly defined travel question.

Writers should demonstrate firsthand experience with the destination or meaningful knowledge of the subject whenever possible.

Please write for travelers, not search engines. TravelPDQ will handle SEO optimization.

We do not pay writers for submissions.

All submissions are subject to editorial review and may be edited for clarity, accuracy, style and length.

Publication is not guaranteed.

Include ONE 620 x 280 photograph:

  • The image must be submitted in WEBP format.
  • The photograph should be clear, sharp, and directly related to the article.
  • Photos must be your own original work or used with permission from the copyright owner.
  • Do not submit images copied from Google, social media, tourism websites, newspapers, blogs, or other sources without permission.
  • Do not submit images containing watermarks, logos, borders, or added text.
  • Please provide a short caption identifying the subject or location.
  • AI-generated or substantially AI-altered images must be disclosed.
  • By submitting a photograph, you confirm that you have the right to authorize TravelPDQ to publish it and use it in connection with promoting the article.
  • You retain ownership of your photograph.
  • TravelPDQ reserves the right to crop, resize, edit, replace, or decline submitted images.

 

What We Don't Publish

Please don't send us:

Generic destination articles that could apply to hundreds of other travel websites.

Articles created primarily to obtain backlinks.

Casino, gambling, cryptocurrency, adult, pharmaceutical or unrelated commercial content.

Previously published or substantially duplicated material.

Mass-produced articles submitted simultaneously to multiple websites.

Content containing promotional links inserted primarily for SEO purposes.

TravelPDQ reserves the right to remove or modify promotional links and to reject any submission that does not meet our editorial standards.