Michael writes about travel on the water by boat, yacht, superyacht, megayacht and small cruise liner. His area of speciality is in upmarket travel by sea and the destinations visited by vessels he sails in. He writes jointly with his wife, and together their work appears under the byline Frances and Michael Howorth or The Howorths.  He writes monthly for The Telegraph, Bi Monthly for Sea Breezes and in every issue of On Board.

With a following of over 14K he is considered by twitter to be an influencer. 

He writes for: On Board, Caribbean World, Sea Breezes, The Telegraph, Gentlemen's Journal, Upward Curve, Private Air, Monaco Summer Magazine, Boote Exclusive, Yachting Russia, Yachting USA, Yachts International, Ocean Magazine in Australia and Asia-Pacific Boating in Hong Kong.

 His work is syndicated world wide to magazine, Web site and magazine editors by TheContentHub.com for who he works as Travel Content Editor.  

On TV he presents for the Nautical Channel & Superyacht TV.  Yachting books he writes are published by Bloomsbury. He is a contributor to Superyacht Radio.

On the web he is a correspondent for Megayachtnews.com, Superyachttimes.com, Definitive Caribbean and he edits SuperYacht News.

His work has been published in: The Times, The Financial Times, Telegraph, and Lloyds ListBoat International, Captains Log, Boat International USA, Dockwalk, Superports, Interiors, Ocean Traveller, The Yacht Report, Boat International Russia, Yachting Matters, SuperYacht World, SuperYacht Business, Super Sail World, Yachting World, Motor Boat & Yachting, Custom Yachting, IBI, European Boatbuilder, Popular Science and Motor Boats Monthly.

Together with Frances Howorth he maintains the travel writing Web site http://www.thehoworths.com which contains many examples of the couples published work along with their own highly acclaimed and much followed travel blog