More about Walter Glaser

Hopefully you will find my work interesting and professional, but I need to explain the way that I work. If I have not been to the place I am writing about for more than six months, I email a draft of my article to a colleague living in that area. Old places close, good venues can turn sour, fine restaurants can change chefs and become mediocre. So every article is checked by a local colleague and updated before it goes to you. That means that the information in my stories is always fresh, with new features of the destination added and obsolete ones deleted.

Don’t be surprised that we have such a wide range of articles. Whatever you get will be, in fishing terms, flapping-fresh.

Some of these precis are for not-yet-completed articles that are at the stage where we have photography and background material. With these, we are ready to write the article immediately it is commissioned. Other precis will be of articles that may have appeared in areas in which your publication does not operate, so will be fresh and new to your readers.

The word count, the style in which the article is written, and the language, ie. US or British-English, can all be specified by you. Also available (where requested) will be a ‘box’ for resources with information like 'how to get there, best time to go, best places to stay, what to look out for and possibly avoid', etc.

Our articles are written from personal trips and usually (unless otherwise specified by you) have our own experiences and opinions interwoven into the general background. If you want an article that is very hard copy -- what to see, what to do, where to eat, where to stay -- We can also handle this, but frankly prefer writing in a more descriptive "we are there" manner.

MY BACKGROUND

My background is different from that of most writers. As CEO of an Australian advertising specialty company with branches in most Australian state capitals, I became hooked on travel when both marketing and sourcing products for my company took me to far corners of the world. Over fifteen years ago, I started writing about my trips as a hobby and was soon writing for most major Australian newspapers.

I then started to work with overseas publications, and when an American literary magazine selected one of my travel stories that had appeared in the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong as the best non-American travel article for the month, international editors started to look at my work.

It became very clear that there was a market among sophisticated, well travelled people who could afford the best and were not happy to settle for anything less. Constant requests from business colleagues who were going on business trips and wanted to extend these to a holiday that was both interesting and fulfilling, led me to catering to the more demanding traveller.