TRIP POLICY

YOU MUST HAVE WRITTEN FIVE STORIES THAT HAVE BEEN APPROVED  BEFORE YOU ARE ELIGIBLE FOR A LETTER OF ASSIGNMENT.

Each writer can have two letters of assignment outstanding.

PLEASE TRY TO GET THE STORY IN WITHIN 6 WEEKS.

Trips will be given to the first writer to respond.  Others will be wait-listed in order of response.

WHY WE CAN’T GIVE YOU THE INFO ABOUT THE TRIP:

Unless you are the writer assigned, we can’t give out the contact info until the writer has returned.  Why?

1.      I don’t want our contributors competing with each other for a host’s attention. One time, Dave Shultz was assigned a Caribbean trip.  I gave another contributor the contact info, and she planned to write for another of her outlets.  The contact noticed that she also wrote for TravelLady, and decided that she would get “more bang for her buck” if she invited the woman instead of Dave.

2.      I used to send the contact info out to everyone.  One time, SIX writers contacted the host, all claiming to have letters of assignment from TravelLady.com.  (There were only six places on the trip; naturally, the hosts wanted people from different publications.)  We all looked stupid and unprofessional.  What publication would send six people to cover the same story?  And only ONE of them had asked me for a letter.

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