Ready-Made Travel Letter Templates

How to Write Travelling Letters?

Vacation or immigration, business, or pleasure. No matter what the purpose of your travel, you are obligated to write a traveling letter addressed to your employer. One, because you need to obtain authorization and consent. Two, because its the professional thing to do when under a company's employment. How to write traveling letters? Study the steps we have provided below.

1. All Formal Letters have Headings

Application letters, Cover letters, etc. Every formal letter starts with their headings, your letter must start there too. To write a heading you must include the full name and position of the person you are addressing. You must also include their address or if you are addressing a company, then the company's address.

2. Be a Professional and Address the Recipient in the Salutations

You will not lose anything if you greet someone in a letter you might have just made a good impression. So, you should make it a habit to greet the person the letter is addressed to and address them respect.

3. Explain the Reason for Travel in the Letter's Body

Whether it is a vacation to a grand beach resort or a necessary visit to a distant relative, you must explain the reason for your travel in the letter's body.

4. Conclude the Travelling Letter

Once you have explained your reasons for traveling, you may now conclude the letter. A letter's conclusion is typically referred to as its closing remarks. In your closing remarks, you should as for your employer's understanding and if you have caused some inconvenience, you must offer your apologies.

5. Proofread Your Travelling Letter

You might have made some grammatical and spelling mistakes here and there. It doesn't hurt to perform proofreading. Edit your letter and eliminate any mistakes that you may find.

General FAQs

• What and where can you use a travelling letter?

  A travelling letter is generally used to inform the appropriate authorities about your travel and to obtain their permission to do so. When a child has to travel somewhere without their parents, travelling letters can ask the parents for consent to enable the child to travel. Mostly these letters are there to notify the concerned parties about a person's travel. This is to ensure that if anything happens the authorities will have a reference to look at for investigations.

• Until what age are you required to write a travelling letter of consent?

  Generally letter of consent concerns children that are old enough to travel without their parents. Typically children from the primary level are required to have their parents sign the letter of consent when they have to travel somewhere with their group. Teenagers that haven't reached the legal age of consent are also required to have their parent or guardian sign a letter of consent for them.

• Do parents need to write a travelling letter to take their kids abroad?

  Not necessarily, as long as there is sufficient proof that the person in question is indeed the child's parents and all travelling requirements have been submitted, then there is no need to write a travelling letter of consent when going abroad.
   

• What age are you allowed to go abroad without your parents?

  When you have reached the legal age of 18 then you are allowed to travel abroad without your parents.