The Travel PR Blog

If this was my screensaver I wouldn’t touch my mouse from dawn til dusk.

For the last couple of days I have been glued to the not-very-exciting-but-oh-so-compelling adventures of Mr and Mrs Bald Eagle and their clutch on Hornby Island, BC.

Fortunately I have a two monitor set-up which allows me to keep one eye on the [...]

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Alan Rusbridger, the editor of the Guardian, spoke to the Royal Society of Arts in London last Thursday about "Newspapers in the age of blogs" and Mike Butcher seems to have captured every syllable of significance.

Newspaper critics are being bypassed by web sites where people are allowed to become critics themselves. And nearly all these [...]

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Wondering what to do with that ropey, expensive wi-fi at your hotel? How about recording a quick hotel review about it?

Evoca is the latest in a lengthening line of services which make pocasting as easy as picking up your phone or talking into your computer.

Audio files can be sent to your blog or tagged [...]

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Well done to Jim Donnelly of IgoUgo, who is quoted in the New York Times today in a piece about travel blogs.
According to Mr. Donnelly, much of travel journalism, online or in print, is myopic, prissy, formulaic and predictable.

The thing I like about that is it describes the New York Times travel section to a [...]

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Back at the turn of the century-ish, I was internet travel correspondent at The Sunday Times. The paper’s still doing a good job of covering the business these days with a comprehensive look at travel RSS feeds and how to make the most of them to find good deals.

Last week, I subscribed to Lastminute.com’s RSS [...]

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My motivation for writing The Travel Blog has changed a little over the last couple of days. I have just tracked down half a dozen schools keen to blog their forthcoming study trips (they are travelling with a client). So, for just now, The Travel Blog is aimed at them.

I was initially recommending TypePad as [...]

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I am happy for TypePad with the announcement of their new business blogging services but can anyone tell me if they still have a dedicated presence in the UK?

Alistair Shrimpton was the man. Then he bloggered off to Skype.

I sent Mena an email to ask if he had been replaced. No reply. I asked Loic [...]

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I have just been trying Blog Everywhere a new Web 2.0 app from Hotmail founder Sabeer Bhatia. The story is here.

It’s not a totally original concept - there are other services which allow you to leave a trail of comments on the web for others to find - but it does seem to be [...]

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As part of my work with a travel company I decided to try and help their clients blog their trips. Fun for the clients and good coverage and useful feedback for the operator.

I am willing to pick up the phone and give any of them a call if they need talked through the process.

However the [...]

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Latest in a long line of "when will they ever learn?" PR gaffes:

1. Cartoonist Robot Johnnie does his own take on Toronto’s subway map on his blog just for a laugh, replacing the names of the regular stops with amusing anagrams

2. Toronto subway authority gets heavy with a cease and desist

3. The story makes the [...]

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