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Holiday in Asia is an editorial travel site focused on how travel across the region actually works — shaped by timing, pacing, cultural context, and practical realities. We publish pieces that hold up over time: clear, specific, and grounded in lived experience.

If you write about Asia with depth and restraint — and you’re comfortable avoiding affiliate-style listicles — we welcome pitches and finished drafts.

What we publish

We’re most interested in pieces that do one or more of the following:

• Explain travel timing, seasons, and trade-offs in a way that stays useful
• Explore pacing, transitions, and why itineraries succeed or fail
• Describe cultural context through everyday reality, not stereotypes
• Cover costs, logistics, visas, transport, and expectation gaps
• Capture places through atmosphere and lived texture rather than “top sights”
• Use food, markets, and daily routines to explain how a place functions
• Identify common travel misjudgements and show better decision patterns

If your idea fits one of our categories, it likely fits the site.

What we don’t accept

To protect editorial quality, we don’t publish:

• Thin “Top 10” lists or generic destination guides
• Affiliate-driven pieces written to sell tours, hotels, or products
• Content that reads like AI-generated filler or SEO padding
• Press releases, advertorials, or brand promotion dressed as travel writing
• Gambling, adult, pharma, crypto, payday loans, or similar industries
• Irrelevant links inserted for SEO rather than context

If the primary goal is link placement rather than a strong article, it won’t be a fit.

Editorial style (what “good” looks like here)

• Tone: calm, clear, observant
• Approach: context and trade-offs over hacks and hype
• Structure: strong opening, clear subheadings, specific examples
• Accuracy: be honest about what you know directly vs what you inferred
• Originality: lived detail beats recycled advice
• Formatting: short paragraphs, no wall-of-text sections

Link policy (read this before submitting)

We allow contextual links when they genuinely help the reader.

• Max links to your site: 1–2 (contextual only)
• No exact-match anchor spam
• We may adjust anchor text for clarity and editorial tone
• We may remove links that feel promotional or unnecessary
• References to reputable sources are welcome (where relevant)