Talking Travel Writing

2 days ago | travelwriting.substack.com | Lottie Gross

In the spirit of embracing AI, we’ve put Chat GPT to the test. We fed it data from our recent travel writing in AI survey and here’s what the bot spat out.Scroll to the end to see the prompt we used for this actually quite interesting article. Don’t worry, next week we’ll be back to our usual human-crafted programming. If you’ve been clinging to your notepad and Canon camera like lifebuoys in the AI storm, you’re not alone.

2 weeks ago | travelwriting.substack.com | Lottie Gross

AI isn’t coming for our first-person travel features – as Steph put it last week, it can’t taste, feel or smell, or even physically travel to a destination. Our perfect prose and beautifully crafted paragraphs are safe, for now. But is AI coming for our guidebooks? As a guidebook author myself, whose career started at a guidebook publisher in London way …

3 weeks ago | travelwriting.substack.com | Lottie Gross

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3 weeks ago | travelwriting.substack.com | Lottie Gross

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1 month ago | travelwriting.substack.com | Joe Baur

I’m sitting in a wooden hut with Hiro, an Okinawan shaman. We’re in Yanbaru National Park, a UNESCO Natural World Heritage site thanks to its blend of pristine jungle and Indigenous culture. It’s a spiritually significant place revered for its utaki — sacred natural spaces in the eyes of Okinawa’s Indigenous beliefs, often located in caves tucked inside…