Motorcycle travel magazines
I would'nt hold your breath on that. I Contributed articles to Motorcycle Voyager together with a photographer and they went bankrupt owing a lot of money to everyone. Following that debacle the photographer put a lot of effort into launching a motorcycle travel publication, and had a magazine publisher very interested, but the economics were just not feasible. For a starter, motorcycle travel is expensive. To produce engaging travel articles with high quality photography means that the people involved need to be paid. It is too costly.
Magazines choose/prefer to go with the sometimes talented amateur who they can pay GBP150 rather than people who do it for a living, and they get away with it because, you, the reader continue to settle for sub-standard text and photo quality. Why would you buy a magazine when you can read the talented amateur online? Surely you want to read something that blows you away and see photos that really excite you? That is what professional journalists and photographers are paid to do.
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