The Travel PR Blog

I have been playing with Google Transit which now covers public transport in the South East of the UK, but sadly does not yet include trains. Ask it how to get from Gatwick Airport to London’s Victoria Station and it will tell you to take a bus. Just for the record - or in case [...]

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Jackie Danicki is a blogger. She is not a Pontin’s Bluecoat and to the best of anybody’s knowledge, she has never written web copy under the name Bluecoat Ben. The question for Pontins then is: why are you using Jackie Danicki’s photo on your Blackpool website?
The image is named “blog mugshot”. That is not much [...]

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Continuing to stir the dust of that journalist versus PR kerfuffle, Stephen Waddington quotes from a new Rainier PR survey which suggests 43% of hacks have blacklisted a PR at some time. He then lists their top 10 peeves including “Massive unsolicited Word attachments or image file”.
Too right. I was on dial-up in the Himalayas [...]

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About three years ago, I bought MindManager, a mindmapping application, to use with my tablet pc. It worked well, I mapped away with keyboard and ink and made some very good-looking mind maps. It was handy for structured writing, brain storming or particularly for notes if I was putting together a talk. Later I moved [...]

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I am not a Muslim - I don’t think many MacLeans are - but I have always loved the sound of the call to prayers from the local mosque. Sadly, the nearest mosque is probably about 20 miles from where I am sitting and prayers don’t seem to travel that far, even if you really [...]

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The Travel Weekly blog introduces us to the new Ryanair charity calendar featuring, among others, a scantily-clad Nicola from Stansted. She seems to be topping up her air supply. Or something.
I didn’t know where to look. Martin Couzins does. Are those leather seats? Cough, cough.
The Daily Mail doesn’t approve. Oh there’s a surprise.

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Now I know how I would spend the rest of the time on my charter to Australia when the Touch runs out of battery. The only disadvantage of the Kindle over conventional books is that it is not so good for slapping the guy in front when he reclines his seat into your lap two [...]

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If I was still globe-trotting I would be marvelling at the newly spruced-up St Pancras. As it is, from where I sit, I am just in awe of Eurostar’s For Tomorrow site. Clients seem to understand when I discuss the SEO benefits of using WordPress for their blogs; but from now on, when they express [...]

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You know what would get me travelling again? No, not money, fame or another contract at the Sunday Times. My iPod Touch. I love it so much I would even volunteer to get back on a charter to Sydney (and after going Down Under on a chart three times I thought my legs were permanently [...]

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It is more than two and a half years since I helped the Isle of Eriska set up a blog (c’mon Beppo, time for a blog make-over) but it still provides a breath of fresh air among my daily reads.The hotel may be one of the smartest and most expensive in Scotland but it has [...]

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You need to see the PR Lady in the new Get a Mac ads. Brilliant. She definitely used to do travel PR. In fact I am sure I met her about fifty times over the past dozen years. 

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It is hardly surprising that travel PR companies blacklist the odd travel writer, because frankly some are very odd indeed and many behave atrociously at the first sniff of a business class upgrade and a free Bloody Mary.
However it is also true that occasionally travel writers will blacklist a travel PR, on account of, I [...]

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