Or The Curse of the Woman Who Didn’t Know When To Shut Up.
Difference between bloggers and journalists
A few weeks ago, the ever-excellent Matthew Teller hosted a debate on his blog about the difference between bloggers and journalists.
It’s something of a hoary old debate, but some excellent points were raised. Key amongst these are that journalists [...]
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On the tourist trail
Apologies for this blog being quiet of late – I am currently in the middle of a fairly exhausting jaunt through South Africa.
As part of this trip, I have been doing a lot of tours, and as a result, have come to a conclusion or two about how tour operators and tourism [...]
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Blogosphere debate
Jeremy Head has written a characteristically interesting post on whether travel content that has been paid for by a company can ever be objective.
As part of the debate, he references Matthew Teller’s proposal about PR agencies and tourist boards paying travel writers for articles rather than the publications they are published in.
How travel writers [...]
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Dear PR person. You were curious as to whether I had received your press release. I probably did. I probably didn’t read it either. Here’s why:
1. It’s not addressed to me
If you’ve sent it to everyone on your mailing list in the hope that it fits something that someone, somewhere is writing about, then it [...]
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Information from hotel
This morning, I received a reply from a hotel. I’m currently researching a feature on getting away from the whole family Christmas thing and thought this resort might be a good possible inclusion. But I needed a bit of information on it first before I could assess.
The response
The response, pasted below, is a priceless example [...]
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Less coverage of green travel in travel media
You don’t hear quite so much about green travel these days, do you? For a good few years, it was the flavour of the month in the travel media. Far too much attention was devoted to travelling without flying, environmentally-friendly hotels, carbon off-setting and other ‘innovations’ that would [...]
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Travel media and budget hotels
I have come to the conclusion that people working in the travel media are in some kind of fantasy land. Recently, I have seen so many stories about the best budget hotels in various locations and have had the same reaction every time. Simply put, the travel media definition of ‘budget’ [...]
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My little list of Top 15 Travel Twitterers seems to have got itself a fair bit of attention. Interestingly, a lot of comments have centred around my reasons for unfollowing someone.
To summarise, if I find a Twitterer dull, irrelevant or overly irritating, then I see no reason to keep following them. Nothing personal – it’s [...]
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OK, this one is not so much a phrase that is used by travel writers. But it’s one that most travel writers will recognise.
When we get assistance from PR companies and tourist boards, it’s only polite to keep those PR chaps and chapesses informed when an article comes out.
Personally, I send an e-mail with the [...]
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