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Hello, Hola, Bonjour and Ciao, I hope this note finds you in good health and good spirits. In the spirit of sisterhood and collective upliftment, I am writing to share some travel media related information that recently came my way. I publish this newsletter approximately 3-4 times per year with the goal of informing the African American travel media community about upcoming events, news, calls for submission, residencies and updates on my travel work. Here's hoping your find something interesting or useful within. Good News This week, I am unveiling my newly designed website, ugogurl.com. Check it out and let me know what you think!! Tell My Feet, I Made it Home! 2019 Is The 'Year Of Return' for people in the African Diaspora. In the year 1619, the first ship carrying captured Africans reached Point Comfort, Virginia. That marked the beginning of the horrendous Middle Passage TransAtlantic Slave Trade. 2019 is the 400th anniversary of that chapter of our history and there are events and ceremonies commemorating that occurrence throughout the Diaspora. I made my “return trip” to Africa this year by visiting the region of my ancestral home, Gambia and Senegal. Lifting as I climb, Elaine Lee
elaineruthlee@gmail.com
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Calls for Submission/Travel Media Opps - Emerging Voices Fellowships has five seven-month fellowships, which include a stipend of $1,000 each, are given to emerging poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers who lack access to financial and creative support. Deadline: August 1, 2019 - Entry Fee: $10 http://www.pen.org/emerging-voices-fellowship
- Baton Rouge Area Foundation - Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. A prize of $10,000 is being given to an emerging African American writer for a book of fiction published in the current year. Deadline: August 15, 2019 http://www.ernestjgainesaward.org
- The 2019 North American Travel Journalists Association Awards Competition entry period will be opening on September 1, 2019! This awards competition recognizes the best of the best from travel media and travel promotion submitted by travel journalists, publications, public relations agencies and CVBs/DMOs. Get ready to submit your best work for consideration! https://www.natja.org/
- Black Travel Movement may be hiring folks. I saw job listings on their facebook feed but was unable to confirm via email or via their website.
- Adventure Travel Program Manager – Asia, Africa and Pacific - REI Adventures - https://www.rei.com/adventures
- Bay Area Book Festival, Program Manager Position available Berkeley, CA https://www.baybookfest.org
- Sales Manager needed at Wild Planet Adventures – S.F., CA. https://www.wildplanetadventures.com
- Points Guys are hiring a news editor and a Social Media Producer. https://careers.redventures.com/positions.html?brand=the%2520points%2520guy
- Travel Noire is accepting community-submitted personal essays, travel guides, thoughtful reviews, and any travel-related writing you're interested in sharing with their audience! They want to hear from you! https://travelnoire.com
- Pathfinders Magazine - We are looking for lively, original, well written stories that provide a good sense of place, with useful
information and fresh ideas about travel and the travel industry. Please keep in mind that Pathfinders' main audience is African Americans, Respond to: info@pathfinderstravel.com - Rick Steve's has ongoing request for radio interviews subjects and questions. ricksteves.com/watch-read-listen/audio/radio/interviews
- Nomad Magazine always looking for beautiful and interesting stories to publish in NOMADS. For more info visit: nomadsmagazine.com/submissions
- Tastemakers Africa (TSTMKRS) is looking for curators. Its an online marketplace where you can list, discover and bookepic experiences in African cities. We connect curious travelers to local experience curators who serve a well-connected friends in every African city.
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Travel Trade and Travel Writing Events - WITS-Women in Travel Summit is heading to Riga, Latvia from November 8-10 for their first ever Europe Summit. For more info visit: https://witsummit.com/europe
- National Black Book Festival Oct. 24-26, 2019 ● 12th Anniversary ● Fallbrook Church ● Houston, Texas www.nationalblackbookfestival.com
- The Annual World Tourism Conference is taking place 22-26 July, 2019 in Johannesburg, South Africa https://www.worldtoafrica.org/
- Ghana’s Year of the Return Event - THE PANAFEST VILLAGE/BAZAAR/EXPO : 26th July – 2nd August 2019 and December 27, 2019 - January 9, 2020.
- African Travel Market have decided to collaborate with US based Africa Diaspora Awards to organize a conference of Africa- Africa Diaspora Tourism Conference, which will take place on the 23rd of September 2019 as part of the 15th Akwaaba African Travel Market in Lagos.
- Travel Professionals of Color Annual Conference and Cruise May 1-10, 2029 starting in Miami, Florida http://www.tpocassociation.com/index.php/tpoc-events/2020-annual-conference
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Travel Media Information - New Solo Adventure Travel Show on OWN network – “The Know” starring Olivia Christine Perez, a wellness travel blogger.
http://www.oprah.com/app/the-know-target.html https://www.ochristine.com/about - Will Smith announced a collaboration with Facebook Watch for his new travel show: Will Smith's Bucket List. It airs Wednesdays at 9 a.m. facebook.com/willsmithsbucketlist
- Jerry Thompson III, has created Point Noir, a weekly show for black male travelers. You can find Point Noire via Instagram: @pointnoirshow. To connect at: @jerry_the3rd and via email: kimonojack@pointnoirshow.com.
- Black & Abroad is a multi-platform travel & lifestyle company. Their digital outlets, international events and travel experiences provides information for the modern Black traveler. https://gobacktoafrica.com/
- 11 Influential Black Women In Travel You Should Know
https://travelnoire.com/influential-black-women-travel/ - Where’s the Travel Writing for Black Women? This article by Sarah Enelow came our several years ago but it is still relevant. It came to my attention again recently and it I thought I would share it.
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/7773934 https://www.essence.com/lifestyle/travel/10-dope-black-women-travelers-to-follow-instagram/ |
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Afrocentric Travel News/Info At the behest of President Trump, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has scuttled the plan approved in the Obama administration to honor American heroine Harriet Tubman by putting her image on the $20 bill. - Kimberly Anyadike, 15, becomes youngest African American female to pilot plane cross-country https://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/15-yr-old-youngest-black-pilot-fly-cross-country-article-1.399825
- One year after Anthony Bourdain’s death, the culinary school where the chef/author/TV host learned to cook is introducing a travel-based scholarship in his memory. The Anthony Bourdain Legacy Scholarship will provide grant money to one or more Culinary Institute of America students per year to study abroad.
- If you haven’t done so already, check out this Washington post article by Rhonda Colvin, “TRAVELING WHILE BLACK" - Some Americans are afraid to explore their own country, concerns that evoke the Jim Crow-era Green Book - wapo.st/traveling-while-black
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Elaine's News This week, I am unveiling my newly designed website, ugogurl.com. Check it out and let me know what you think!! This spring I made my 5th trip to Africa. I visited Gambia and Senegal. I was there to meet with reps from the ministry of Gambian tourism about their plans to revive and re-strategize their "Roots" Festival. The festival was established to honor the legacy of Alex Haley who traced his roots back to Gambia. Last week I had a chance to visit Cabo San Lucas for the first time in a trip planned by a galpal that frequents the area. I had a fabulously relaxing trip as well as got some surfing in! Making plans for my annual fall trip to Paris. I am working on possibly teaching a travel writing class at an english speaking college there. Crossed fingers. I will let you know if it happens! Working on a plan to take my god daughter to Brazil for her birthday next year.
About Elaine Lee Elaine Lee is the editor of “Go Girl: The Black Woman's Book of Travel and Adventure". She is also a San Francisco/Bay Area based lawyer, globetrotter, and travel journalist. She has visited 64 countries and completed two solo trips around the world. Her travel writings have been showcased in numerous national magazines, anthologies and webzines. She has shared her love of travel on many local and national radio, TV shows and travel conferences. Her website ugogurl.com is a leading portal for information on black travel, black travel writing and travel media information. elaineruthlee@gmail.com ugogurl.com |
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