Travel Writers Online

It is official from 9 o’clock this morning, Wednesday 27 July 2022, TRAVEL WRITERS ONLINE has its own International Standard Serial Number from the British Library. Ours is ISSN 2753-7803 which means that you can use it in citing articles and travel stories which are published here in our online magazine. Take Philipp’s story from last week for example, it can now be cited as:   Wassler, P. (2022). ‘Déjà-vu’ Travel Writers Online [Online Accessed 27.7.2022] < https://travelwritersonline.blogspot.com/2022/07/deja-vu.html > ISSN 2753-7803    

Do researchers discover destination knowledge or create it? This question has been at the heart of our discussions since 2009 and gradually, through conferences and lab meetings, travel writing has emerged as both a method of inquiry for us in tourism and area studies and as a professional practice for the synthesis of new knowledge, thanks, often, to the use of narrative.  This travel writing blog TRAVEL WRITERS ONLINE is our discovery instrument and, we hope, a research practice that will yield new knowledge on place, destination image, visitor practices and literary tourism. Please cite us, using the title of the post as an article title to help your readers find the post again, along with our ISSN 2753-7803: Example citation Mansfield, C. (2020). ‘The Black Notebook’ Travel Writers Online ISSN 2753-7803 [Online   < travelwritersonline.blogspot.com> Accessed: 24.9.2025]. ____________________________________  

Finding novels set in Nantes is proving much more difficult than I thought.  C S Forester's Hornblower barely touches the ground in the city of Nantes. I need a narrative where the French urban space is almost a character itself.  This morning, though, with Google and Amazon, I found these two novels by Paul Louis Rossi (b.1933 Nantes): Régine (1990) and a later one, La voyageuse immortelle (2001) and they are now on order.  It is hard to judge whether they will create that elusive toureme for Nantes.  As my readers on Audible will know, I've been addicted to Patrick Modiano since 2015, and these two novels by Rossi do have a faint hint that they might have a similar quest for a missing character that Modiano's stories often recount.