Travel writing

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Travel writing is a familiar genre, so what’s the difference, if there is one, between this and Place Writing?

Without a doubt, travel writing has changed over the last few decades as more people have acquired the resources of time and money to fund global travel, and extensive opportunities to write about it are at one’s fingertips. Now that we can research countries and specific locations on the internet without recourse to guide books or maps, travel writing no longer needs to be about where to go and how to get there. The craft has developed and, in doing so, I think it has moved more towards Place Writing. In some situations I’ve noticed the terms have become interchangeable and for this reason I thought it worth exploring how the two types of writing might differ.