Travel News – Headlines We’d Like To See

When you start looking through the Travel News section of your local newspaper or other travel related magazines, there is the usual stuff about some new travel company, or the hottest destinations that you really need to see right now before they’re spoilt forever (which means they’re spoiled already!). There are usually all sorts of experiences there, including the almost mandatory shot of a bright and sunny tropical island somewhere. Actually, this marketing tactic works great if you’re showing these images to someone in a location at the height of winter.

One of the skills of travel journalism that one must acquire to succeed in this business is the ability to create eye catching headlines that usually contain a bit of corny innuendo, which in turn attracts the eye of the reader and makes them curious about the rest of the article. That’s how they get paid and therefore, become attracted to producing even more headlines. This isn’t just the realm of travel writing, but all writing. I actually think you must be able to take a course in writing headlines!

Anyway, usually, these news pieces are fairly promotional and sometimes, don’t reflect the reality of a destination at all!

But what if the travel newspapers and magazines came up with travel news and headlines that actually reflected the truth, or even busted some stereotypes? Now that would be downright funny.

Anyway, here are some corny headlines I’ve dreamt up that we’ll probably never see – my alternative Travel News Headlines! And I’ve got fifty of them for you to waste time on! Time that you’ll never get back…

Here they are!

Travel News With A Difference

1. Airline finds lost baggage
2. Backpacker actually undertakes real backpacking
3. Digital nomad doesn’t spend all of round the world trip in internet cafe
4. Travel destination actually looks like travel brochure
5. Car stops at pedestrian crossing while people are on it
6. Traveller actually meets Facebook friend in real life
7. English man doesn’t drink cheap beer overseas
8. English speaking tourist eats at restaurant with non-English menu
9. Traveller admits to escaping from something at home
10. iPhone addict uses iPhone to make phone calls overseas
11. Travel agent recommends place to visit that they’ve actually been to
12. World’s hottest place to travel right now actually lives up to the hype
13. Love tourist actually finds true love
14. Shopper’s luggage meets standard check in baggage weight
15. Tourism commercial is actually quite good
16. Airline incident doesn’t make Air Crash Investigations
17. Traveller doesn’t know where the United States of America is
18. Irish bar not found in big city
19. Drunk Australians not spotted in Bali
20. New Zealander not mistaken for an Australian
21. Canadian not mistaken for an American
22. American traveller does not stitch Canadian flag on backpack
23. Travel television host is not a blonde girl in a bikini
24. Recommended attraction in Lonely Planet guidebook is actually lonely
25. Bed bugs not found in backpacker bunk bed
26. Traveller actually resembles passport photo
27. Travel blogger takes break from laptop
28. Traveller with travel insurance actually makes claim
29. Medical tourist not interested in cosmetic surgery
30. Las Vegas visitor comes out ahead at casino
31. Las Vegas tourists resist urge to become married in Drive Through Chapel
32. Low cost airline more expensive than full service airline after passenger pays for extras
33. An Amazing Race contestant doesn’t say ‘very fast’ to a taxi driver
34. Third World people amazed at First World Problems
35. Tourist amazed that Australian’s don’t wrestle crocodiles
36. Local kitsch souvenirs at tourist trap are not made in China
37. Man surprised that sweet talking the check in lady scores him an upgrade to business class
38. Boozer finds drink prices on a cruise reasonable
39. Traveller finds awesome place not recommended by his guidebook
40. Promiscuous traveller who uses 365 condoms in 365 days has a ‘Good Year’
41. Travel writer becomes dirty filthy rich
42. Person quits job to become a full time traveller and doesn’t start up a travel blog
43. Australian doesn’t crave Vegemite during long term travel trip
44. Man tries to commit suicide by crossing the road to the Arc De Triomphe in Paris – and survives
45. Vietnamese motorbike transports load within it’s engineering capacity
46. Couple send postcard home that arrives before they do
47. Richard Branson to not perform crazy stunt to promote latest travel related business
48. Fluent English teacher actually teaches proper English instead of slang
49. Millionaire finds space travel ‘overrated’
50. Australians stop telling tourists about the dangers of Drop Bears.

There you go. This list of Travel News Headlines We’d Like to See was a bit stupid, but hey, some of them are close to the truth.

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How about you? What Travel News Headlines would you like to see in letters ten foot high?

Leave a comment with yours to share with the world and make them laugh!