If you are an experienced journalist, guide book author or travel expert then you have the best chance of being published in Wanderlust magazine. If however you can demonstrate writing flair and professionalism you will still be in with a good chance.
Published ten times a year, the magazine aims to cover ‘all aspects of independent, semi-independent and special interest travel’ whilst leaving ‘the crampons and adrenalin stuff to other magazines’. Readership is 50% welleducated females of all ages who are fairly affluent and are active travellers. Readers are mostly British although there are readers in over eighty countries worldwide. Wildlife, trekking and photography are the major interests of the readers.
The magazine content consists of destination features of 1,800-2,200 words and topical ‘Dispatches’ of 700-1,200 words. If you have in-depth and regional or global knowledge on a travel-relevant subject and can write with authority then ‘Special Interest’ features are for you. There are also ‘Consumer’ articles offering a practical guide of value to travellers. Articles on activity holidays, luxury hotels, resorts or spas, family travel, one-off expeditions and trips to war or disaster zones are not wanted, and nor are ‘Big Trip’ diaries and previously published articles.