Web creates new generation of travel writers

Gemma Bowes writes in The Observer: Internet technologies have created new forms of publishing that are making it possible for any wannabe travel writer to see their work in print. Online travel blogs and podcasts, which travellers produce on the move and upload on to the internet in the cyber cafes they visit during their journeys, are attracting audiences of thousands, and thanks to their success, small, independent publishing houses are now turning these amateur works into books