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		<title>A helpful PR guide for dealing with travel journalists</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Things I do need 1. Exactly what I requested on the e-mail. &#160; Things I don’t need 2. Anything else.]]></description>
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		<title>What information should be in a good travel guide?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Grumpy Traveller guides I’m still working on getting the redesign for the new look Grumpy Traveller done (see this post for explanation), but one major thing I plan to concentrate on is offering genuinely useful city guides. By this, I don’t mean generic blather about the main attractions that seems to pass muster on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>About THAT Jordan piece</title>
		<link>http://www.grumpytraveller.com/2011/12/17/about-that-jordan-piece/#utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=feed</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 11:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, I wrote a post that was intended as a satire. Many people seemed to miss what the satire was about, but the conversation spread to other blogs and over Twitter. I hate having to explain jokes. It’s generally a sign of a failed joke, but it seems as though some explanation is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On safari in Jordan: The world’s new wildlife-spotting hotspot</title>
		<link>http://www.grumpytraveller.com/2011/12/12/on-safari-in-jordan-the-world%e2%80%99s-new-wildlife-spotting-hotspot/#utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=feed</link>
		<comments>http://www.grumpytraveller.com/2011/12/12/on-safari-in-jordan-the-world%e2%80%99s-new-wildlife-spotting-hotspot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Petty Gripes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our guide puts his finger to his lips. We mustn’t disturb them in case they run for it. “They’re very sensitive to intrusion,” he says. “The slightest disruption can make them squawk in anguished pain. And if the herd starts stampeding, they can start lashing out wildly without any rhyme or reason.” We’re huddled behind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Travel Blog Camp 2011: A few random takeaway thoughts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 23:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As one of the more enjoyable parts of two shop-talking days, I sauntered along to Travel BlogCamp 2011 on Tuesday night, with the heavy elephantine feet of a man who had spent a day talking to irrelevant people on big flashy stalls. I’m still working out my overall impressions, but here are a few things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The perfect press trip</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:41:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel Industry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In recent times, I’ve encountered a few press trip frustrations that, from my point of view, just didn’t need to happen. It got me thinking – what would my ideal press trip consist of? Well it obviously depends on the stories I’m going to research, but this little lot just about covers it&#8230; &#160; A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why private tours don’t work (for me)</title>
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		<comments>http://www.grumpytraveller.com/2011/10/17/why-private-tours-don%e2%80%99t-work-for-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Petty Gripes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One-on-one tour On the e-mail, the words I secretly dread appeared. “We can offer you a guide for three hours,” it said. My heart sank. In many ways, having a personal, one-on-one guided tour around a city should be the ideal way to discover it. They can show you the best bits, explain the history [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How can a small travel company get journalists to write about it?</title>
		<link>http://www.grumpytraveller.com/2011/09/27/how-can-a-small-travel-company-get-journalists-to-write-about-it/#utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=feed</link>
		<comments>http://www.grumpytraveller.com/2011/09/27/how-can-a-small-travel-company-get-journalists-to-write-about-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tips]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“We want you to know we’re here” On Wednesday, as I was sat at Geneva airport, I was sent a rather interesting tweet. @Odinsson2 had a question to ask. “Operators like us just want people like you to know we&#8217;re here when you want us. PRESS4TRAVEL any good?” I followed up by e-mail, and Ian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why travel bloggers need to start thinking like editors</title>
		<link>http://www.grumpytraveller.com/2011/07/25/why-travel-bloggers-need-to-start-thinking-like-editors/#utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=feed</link>
		<comments>http://www.grumpytraveller.com/2011/07/25/why-travel-bloggers-need-to-start-thinking-like-editors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 08:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel Writing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Making money from travel blogging (again) It’s been ooh, at least two weeks, since the issue of how to make money from travel blogging has done the rounds on the web. It is a topic that many proclaim to be bored of, squealing that the conversation should move on. That’s a bit like saying you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eight year old guidelines for travel writers</title>
		<link>http://www.grumpytraveller.com/2011/07/21/eight-year-old-guidelines-for-travel-writers/#utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=feed</link>
		<comments>http://www.grumpytraveller.com/2011/07/21/eight-year-old-guidelines-for-travel-writers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 08:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel Writing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Going through a few old folders on my computer earlier, I came across something I must have written eight or nine years ago. This was back in another life when I was editing a backpacker magazine in Australia. We’d have a pretty high turnover of staff working for three month blocks before going off travelling. [...]]]></description>
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