Calling All Travel Writers! Share Your Adventures with S.W. Black Travel
Are you passionate about travel and love to write? S.W. Black Travel wants to hear from you! Write for us because we’re offering you the chance to share your travel tales, insider tips, and amazing experiences with our audience.
Your unique perspective could inspire countless travel enthusiasts!
What We’re Looking For:
We’re on the hunt for engaging and authentic travel blogs that highlight your:
- personal experiences,
- insider tips, and
- practical travel hacks.
Whether it’s about:
- cruises,
- international travel,
- tours,
- accommodation,
- flights, or
- holidays in general…
… your story is valuable to us.
Ensure your content is well-written, free from typos and grammatical errors, and follows our guidelines to increase your chances of being published.
Why Write for Us?
- Get Published: See your work featured on our website with your name, photo, and a short bio.
- Boost Your CV: Having published work can impress potential employers.
- Increase Your Exposure: Drive traffic to your personal blog or website with a backlink (Note: No links to unrelated third-party products or direct competitors of S.W. Black Travel).
- Social Media Spotlight: Your work might be shared across our social media channels, reaching an even wider audience.
Plus, You’ll Get:
- Travel Voucher: Earn a AUD$50 S.W. Black Travel voucher towards any cruise or holiday package of your choice if your work is published.
- Prize Opportunities: As our Travel Writer Program grows, we intend to introduce regular prize draws for our contributors.
Writing Guidelines:
- Be Authentic: We love original content that showcases your unique voice and first-hand experiences.
- Casual and Friendly Tone: Write as if you’re chatting with a friend. Our brand is all about being friendly, engaging, and informative.
- Know Your Audience: Our readers are leisure travellers interested in cruises, tours, accommodation, flights, and packaged holidays. We welcome diverse perspectives, from inspirational stories to practical advice.
- High Quality: Aim for a high standard of spelling, grammar, and structure. Articles should be at least 500 words.
- Relevant Content: Focus on topics related to our offerings – cruises, international travel, tours, accommodation, flights, and packaged holidays – and anything directly related.
- Include Images: At least 4 photos should accompany your article, ideally one image per paragraph. Use photos you own the rights to, and we’ll credit you. If using stock photos, please let us know.
We reserve the right to not publish any content that doesn’t meet our guidelines or uses copied or copyrighted material.
How to Submit:
Ready to share your adventures? Fill in the form below to submit your pitch. Please don’t write the full article yet—we’ll let you know if we’re interested. All submissions will receive a response.
For any enquiries, contact us at hello@swblack.com.au, but remember, submissions must be made through the form.
Inspire fellow travellers with your stories! Follow our guidelines and submit your pitch to S.W. Black Travel today. We can’t wait to read about your adventures!
Do you accept paid guest posts?
No – we review every submission to ensure that the post complies with our quality standards and is valuable to our audience. You cannot pay to bypass our processes.
Do you accept casino/CBD/forex/crypto links?
No – we are a travel business. We accept posts about travel related topics. If a post (or a link within a post) is not contextually relevant to travel, then it will be removed/not published. If you pitch a post that is not relevant to travel, then we will politely decline to post it.
Will there be a ‘sponsored’ tag applied to the post?
No – guest posts cannot be ‘sponsored’ so there will be no tag applied. If there are any sponsored posts, these will typically be produced or managed in-house by our team.
Will links be ‘do-follow’?
Yes – however please be aware that all links are checked by our team to ensure that they are contextually relevant. Any irrelevant links will be removed.
Is is a ‘lifetime’ post?
Ideally, yes. If you produce content that is evergreen and it’s contents are unlikely to change or become irrelevant, then we intent to leave our guest posts up live on our site. We audit our content from time-to-time to check for completeness and correctness so content may be removed or modified if it needs to be.
How do I pitch my post?
Simply fill in the form above. From experience, if you email us about a guest post, it WILL go to junk and it will likely be missed. If you have read this page in its entirety and you are keen to submit a guest post idea, then you MUST use the form above otherwise you will likely not receive a response. All submissions using the above form WILL receive a response… if you email us, you probably won’t…