Exploring the dimensions of travel journalism: An inter-disciplinary agenda for research

While the past 60 years or so have seen a quickly growing amount of scholarly research into
journalism practices, much of it has been restricted to the arena of hard news. However, the past two
decades have seen other forms of journalisms come to the fore. One such case is travel journalism in
newspapers and on television, as well as online. Given news organisations’ cuts in international news
reporting, TV travel shows and newspaper travel sections are increasingly important in representing
foreign cultures, and thus important for communication research.

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