The Travel PR Blog

It’s my birthday. Thanks. My five year old woke me with a card on which he had drawn a few of his father’s favourite things. Right under the figure playing tennis and a foot kicking a ball, he had sketched a computer with just one word in the middle of the screen: “Googel”
Fair enough, I [...]

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There was an email waiting for me this morning from GB Airways, one of my clients, to say they have been bought by EasyJet for £103.5 million.
I really like GB and I hope I can still work with them. They have a distinctive personality which doesn’t always shine through the British Airways livery. The question [...]

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Shortly after Madeleine McCann went missing from the Mark Warner resort at Praia da Luz in Portugal, I took a look at the Mark Warner site to see how they were handling their side of the sad event from a travel PR perspective.
There was little more than a statement but it was sensitively done [...]

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Kevin May at Travolution started a meme at the weekend asking where travel industry bloggers like to go on holiday. Top five. I’ll play.
That’ll be (stream of consciousness, you understand, so I am not sitting here all day debating it):

 Arisaig, Scotland
Aitutaki, Cook Islands
St Paul, Minnesota
Waiheke Island, New Zealand
South Beach, Miami

The fact that several of the places which popped [...]

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Who pulls out the Rants & Raves on the Trip Advisor front page and will they take a bung to add or remove your hotel? That was my first thought when I saw the new-look site. Maybe these highlighted quotes have been there all along but now the front page has been de-cluttered, there’s no [...]

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The business of running multiple blogs is like keeping plates spinning at the circus. So excuse me while I flap over here in my size 20 clown’s feet and get this particular platter back onto its pointy pedestal.
One blog I started recently has only a tangential connection with travel but I am still enjoying rolling [...]

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