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Travel Wrighter

Travel writing and photography
for sites, newspapers, magazines and people with a passion for the world

By Chris Wright

Below, 'published' takes you to my published work in the mainstream press. For self-published writing available for syndication, click 'personal'. To see where my business, social and political journalism has met travel writing, click 'passions'. All photography is mine unless otherwise stated.

The World is Not Enough

Chris Wright

Dec 15, 2022
9 min

The World is Not Enough

Meet the people for whom visiting all of Earth's 193 UN-recognised countries is just the start. AFR Sophisticated Traveller, November 24...

The Delirious Dunes of Namibia

Chris Wright

Oct 27, 2022
7 min

The Delirious Dunes of Namibia

It’s all about the dunes. Before sunrise you leave your lodge and drive along one of Namibia’s few tarred roads, paved to avoid...

Sovereign Wealth Lessons from an Isolated Cree Nation

Chris Wright

Oct 27, 2022
15 min

Sovereign Wealth Lessons from an Isolated Cree Nation

Euromoney, April 2022 In frozen far northern Alberta, one finds perhaps the world’s least likely sovereign wealth fund, investing...

Inside Singapore's Vaccinated Travel Lane Flights

Chris Wright

Oct 9, 2021
8 min

Inside Singapore's Vaccinated Travel Lane Flights

Look, I don’t want to rub it in, but I spent last week in the Bavarian Alps. I walked every day in fresh mountain air. Cow bells rang and...

How Bhutan Built Conservation Finance Into its DNA

Chris Wright

Jun 13, 2020
8 min

How Bhutan Built Conservation Finance Into its DNA

Euromoney, October 2019 Tiny Bhutan has a big claim to fame: the world’s first, and only, country that can claim to be not only carbon...

The Other Side of Everest

Chris Wright

Jun 13, 2020
7 min

The Other Side of Everest

AFR Sophisticated Traveller, October 2019 Mount Everest has had a bad press of late. There have been too many deaths on the mountain and...

Blood, Thunder and Politics at Harlem's Canaan Baptist Church

Chris Wright

Oct 4, 2019
6 min

Blood, Thunder and Politics at Harlem's Canaan Baptist Church

Harlem church tours have become a New York Sunday morning tourist attraction. They can have an uncomfortable voyeuristic feeling, but...

Diary of a Dash Across Australia

Chris Wright

Oct 4, 2019
18 min

Diary of a Dash Across Australia

So it was like this. I got a message from my friend Heath, who was on his way from Busselton in Western Australia to Gold Coast in...

The Shorts-Wearing Banker who Built a Unique Hotel

Chris Wright

Oct 4, 2019
11 min

The Shorts-Wearing Banker who Built a Unique Hotel

AFR Sophisticated Traveller, August 1 2019 Being put on the spot by an awkward question led banking executive Neal Cross to spend...

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