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Major directions in recent travel writing scholarship include: studies about the role of gender in travel and travel writing ( e. g. Women Travelers in Colonial India: The Power of the Female Gaze by Indira Ghose ); explorations of the political functions of travel ( e. g. Radicals on the Road: The Politics of English Travel Writing in the 1930s by Bernard Schweizer ); postcolonial perspectives on travel ( e. g. English Travel Writing: From Pilgrimages to Postcolonial Explorations ( 2000 ) by Barbara Korte ); and studies about the function of language in travel and travel writing ( e. g. Across the Lines: Travel, Language, and Translation by Michael Cronin ).

Tim Youngs is a driving force behind the growth of the field, notably through the journal Studies in Travel Writing, through his two co-edited volumes of essays on travel writing, Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing ( 2002 ), co-edited with T. Hulme, and Perspectives in Travel Writing ( 2004 ), co-edited with G. Hooper.

Youngs also co-organized the 2005 travel writing conference, “ Mobilis in Mobile ”, in Hong Kong.

Kristi Siegel is another prolific editor of travel writing scholarship, having edited Issues in Travel Writing: Empire, Spectacle and Displacement ( 2002 ), as well as Gender, Genre, and Identity in Women ’ s Travel Writing ( 2004 ).