Types of Travel Guide #8: Advice Travel Guide

All about the Advice Travel Guide

Whether your travel advice and how-to guide focuses on the planning stages of a trip or the trip itself, there are many directions to take your topic. Some online retailers include advice guides in their specialty travel section, but I’ve segmented this category out as I think these how-to guides deserve their own section.

There are so many different topics you can offer advice on, and it’s your job as an author to present the information in an easy-to-digest format, so that your readers can benefit from the travel advice you’re dishing out.

Advice Travel Guide Examples

Matt Kepnes, better known as Nomadic Matt, wrote How to Travel the World on $50 a Day: Third Edition: Travel Cheaper, Longer, Smarter, which includes tips, tricks, and secrets for comfortable budget travel based on his experience traveling the world. Whether it’s a two-week, two-month, or two-year trip, Matt shows you how to stretch your money further so you can travel cheaper, smarter, and longer. Matt is a successful travel blogger who has built his reputation on budget travel, and currently has a series of six budget travel guides to his name and publishes travel hacking guides. He has a strong brand vision and uses his subject-matter expertise to exploit the budget niche.

• How to Travel the World on $50 a Day: Third Edition: Travel Cheaper, Longer, Smarter

David Avoura King wrote How to Travel Securely: Tips and Help for Staying Safe and Secure So You Can Enjoy Traveling based on his own experiences, as well as some research, to find some of the best tips and information that can help you travel more safely and securely, whether you are traveling within your home country or to another country.

• How to Travel Securely: Tips and Help for Staying Safe and Secure So You Can Enjoy Traveling

Digital Nomad Gabrielle Gundi wrote TRAVEL for FREE: How to score FREE Flights, Rental Cars & Accommodations, dramatically reduce Airfares, Get paid to Travel & START a DIGITAL NOMAD BIZ… in the World! (Travel Smart Series Book 1) to help people achieve the travel freedom they crave. Her guide provides a list of resources to find exciting jobs anywhere in the world.

• TRAVEL for FREE: How to score FREE Flights, Rental Cars & Accommodations, dramatically reduce Airfares, Get paid to Travel & START a DIGITAL NOMAD BIZ… in the World!

Jeannette Zeuner wrote Travel around the world – the ultimate guide to plan your big trip! to help fellow travelers plan a round-the-world trip. It explains where to go, when to go, and which ticket to buy. She also shares travel reports from experienced globetrotters to get you inspired.

• Travel around the world – the ultimate guide to plan your big trip!

The Carry-On Traveller: The Ultimate Guide to Packing Light was written by Erin McNeaney to save you money, time, and stress by never checking in your bag again. It shows you not only how to lighten your load, but how to pack everything you need into a single carry-on size bag using strategies that can be applied to any trip.

• The Carry-On Traveller: The Ultimate Guide to Packing Light

Considerations When Planning An Advice Travel Guide

Although some advice guides are a variation of a destination guide (100 Tips for Traveling with Kids in Europe), others are targeted at a specific task (Work Your Way Around the World), or with a specific audience in mind (How to Travel With Your Dog: Tips and Tricks).

Subject-matter expertise is an important element in these travel guides. When you write from personal experience, you’ll be able to engage your reader more easily. Yes, you can research a topic to the hilt and share your research, but there’s nothing more engaging than an author who has “been there, done that”, bought the tee-shirt, and written the book about it.

Want to learn about the other types of travel guides? Here’s the full list of this article series:

In addition to these articles, I also wrote the following articles about writing a Local Travel Guide (which is a sub-genre of special interest travel guides):

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