Word: travelling
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Though she found her Let's Go foray worthwhile, Schneider called it quits with Harvard's travel biz. "It was very draining," she says. "I would not do it again...
...guides, the travel books written and edited by Harvard students, sound pretty brilliant on the face of it: send impoverished students out with a few bucks to Paris, Sydney or Rio and let them write about their adventures. The project has met with great success since Harvard Student Agencies first printed Let's Go: Europe in 1960. What was then a 20-page pamphlet is today a line of 30 travel guides and 18 map guides, available in bookstores nationwide. Published by St. Martin's Press, Let's Go: Europe has grown to a glossy 992-page behemoth. Hundreds...
...trips to "developed nations." Lonely Planet has put a lock on the more out-of-the-way destinations for American tourists. "We are the clear leader in Africa, New Zealand and South Pacific destinations," he declares. "We still pretty much rule in Southeast Asia," Kettunen says. In the travel book biz, Let's Go's push to expand its coverage has been duly noted, but Schubert says Let's Go's Asia and Middle East editions clearly lag behind the series' more established guidebooks...
...kickball together. We try to set up as many outlets as possible," Stone says. Managing editors are expected to hold parties and inject some play into the office work. "There's always something fun included in the weekly meetings," Dovey explains. And what comprises fun for Harvard's aspiring travel writers? "Poetry competitions, for example. One week we read limericks at the meeting...
...puts out the annual call for new staffers, blanketing the campus with its celebrity-filled fliers, the process of indoctrination will begin. Would-be travel writers will wander into information sessions to hear testimonies from London club kids and Indian backpackers who found enlightenment, courtesy of Let's Go. Aspirants should note, however, that like a fresh rhinoplasty, such wisdom requires, if not heavy sedatives, a healthy dose of healing time...