PROCESS
Dialogue Journaling is a method for travel writing in tourism projects. It is inline with the United Nations UNWTO Agenda 2030 for stakeholder engagement. Dialogue Journaling was developed in 2022 for the textbook: Travel Writing for Tourism and City Branding.
These free resources are to help you implement Dialogue Journaling into your teaching and into your destination development projects with stakeholders. The processual method is described in full in chapters 4 and 5 of the textbook linked below. This page shows the suggested layout of 3 folders for each of your writing projects. Within these folders keep your individual documents. The template is in MS OneNote and in Google Docs.
In the lower frame you can see and download the empty template for one of these documents in the free Google Docs format.
If you would like to set-up the process in Microsoft OneNote, then here, below, is an example with tabs and templates.
In the upper frame, in the folder on Google Docs you will also find a Microsoft WORD version of the template for making your own notebook in OneDrive rather than in Google Drive. Simply download it keeping the docx format of MS WORD, then tailor it to suit your needs. Make an empty template copy or two for speed when having ideas. A digital notebook lets you search on all your journaling entries from the start of your project.
Travel Writing for Tourism and City Branding
Travel Writing for Tourism and City Branding provides tourism students with a practice-based approach to producing researched literary travel writing on an urban destination, using the writing process as a research tool in itself. The book is scientifically supported with full academic references for researchers.
DMOs and Tourism Students
City councils and destination managers are seeking new ways to commission and sponsor content authors as part of place-branding projects for tourism development. Given the increasing value of such content within the tourism industry, this book provides a cohesive overview of literary travel writing, presenting it as an inquiry process that can be applied by researchers to spaces that have value to them.
Travel writing is presented as a methodological process that researchers can apply to their own projects, both in academic settings and in commercial city branding. Examples of literary travel writing are carefully examined throughout the book. Enriched with a wealth of case studies, chapters are presented in such a way that learners can take the work as a model for their own projects.