The Travel PR Blog

How about this: a mass hoe-down to breathe life back into your tourism business?
Thousands dance in Bali tourism drive:
About 5,000 people danced in a trance outside a Balinese temple on Friday in a colossal show aimed at reviving the Indonesian island’s tourism industry, still feeling the pinch of last year’s deadly bombings.
The Kecak dancers, dressed [...]

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I might use this at next week’s seminar. Let’s hope they have all washed their feet.
Come to think of it, it must be possible for someone in APRO to get hold of a few dozen pairs of airline socks.
So, What’s Your Thing?:
I learned about a wonderful example of small business branding practiced by Steve and [...]

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Not really. That’s a headline from a YouTube video posted by a disgruntled customer.
Next week I am giving a talk to the Airline Public Relations Organisation in London. Since I discovered how easily I can slip videos into Keynote slides with my Mac, I have been checking YouTube in search of relevant content to add [...]

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I don’t understand this:
1) Easyjet would like you to check-in online and print your own boarding pass
2) Easyjet will reward you for doing this with a category D grading at the gate
In other words, check-in online and you will be among the last to board the plane.
Can anyone from Easyjet explain their thinking behind this?

Technorati [...]

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Why doesn’t this surprise me? I m in London today talking to a travel company. Blogging is treated with caution and, almost inevitably, the question pops up: how do we control the comments?
Control, control, control. It was almost a show-stopper for a luxury hotel group a few months ago. Equanimty returns when I reassure them [...]

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Good piece on the Singapore foodie experience by Anthony Bourdain in the NYT. In fact, once you get past the initial generic gushing, ten times better than anything else from the travel section in weeks.
Food is really Singapore’s saving grace; there are few other reasons I would rush back.
I attended the opening ceremony of the [...]

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Funny, I don’t think I’ll even bother calling the BA press office for a comment on this one.
Packing heat: Ensure your checked luggage arrives safely by packing firearms:
… putting a gun in your suitcase ensures that your luggage will be handled carefully, and will certainly reach its destination. It’s essentially like sending your suitcase via [...]

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Tough decision: you become infamous the world over as a template for faulty service. What do you do? Make the most of it.
“Fawlty Towers” Hotel Gets Makeover:
“It is quite bizarre,” Manager Sue Pine told Reuters. “Every day you sit in reception and they come in by the coachload from America, Germany and Holland to see [...]

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I have a few feeds from travel sites in my daily catch up but I can honestly say, if there is one site I look forward to hearing from more than any other, it’s Bed Jumping HQ where members of the travelling public post pictures of themselves putting hotel beds to the ultimate test.
The photos [...]

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If you ask me, they should make a slightly larger Ride On Carry On for all those travel PR’s who have ever had to pour an inebriated journalist onto a plane.
Spotted on Gadling.

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I would like a fillet steak for every time a celebrity chef, in this case Aldo Zilli, has been paid a consultancy fee by an airline and said:
Airline food will never be the same again.
Yes, and that was an airborne pig we overtook en route to Madrid.
The reality of course is that their chefly intentions never quite translate as intended when they get to [...]

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Interesting take on cleaning up after Toronto’s second hotel murder incident of the summer.
It has not turned into a public relations campaign for the city of Toronto to protect its beloved tourist industry.
via T.O. Crime

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