This week I did a piece for the travel section of The Sun on people’s rights if they have been stranded abroad by the fallout of ash from Iceland’s volcanic eruption (you can read it here if you want). One of the things that struck me while writing was the speed in which the travel industry, [...]
American designer and frequent flyer Tyler N Thompson was on a flight last year and took to dissecting his boarding pass. One of the problems he saw, and I tend to agree, is that much of the information on a boarding pass not only looks unattractive but is also hopeless for highlighting stand out information [...]
A prime example of why big companies need social media experts in the country they are pushing events in… this was spotted on Busch Gardens’ Facebook page yesterday:
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Why on earth do people think that just anyone can be a travel writer? Because if you’re one of the dozens of scribes trying to scratch out a living at a time when newspapers are cutting commissioning budgets, the latest announcement from Virgin Holidays can only be seen as yet another insult to the profession. Apparently, [...]
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Yesterday afternoon I went to the annual spring lunch of a company called Travel PR – for those not in the know they are, you guessed it, a travel public relations company that mainly specialises in small, independent and often quirky travel companies. Their client list includes the Association of Independent Tour Operators (www.aito.co.uk), Kirker [...]
This has just come to my inbox from Seaworld – happy to publish it. February 24, 2010 A Message from Jim Atchison President and Chief Executive Officer, SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment It is with great sadness that I report that one of our most experienced animal trainers drowned in an incident with one of our killer [...]
The death of killer whale trainer Dawn Brancheau at Orlando’s Seaworld yesterday is a tragic event and my thoughts go out to her family, friends and colleagues. But some of the handwringing and bewilderment surrounding the incident leaves me perplexed. Some years ago, I interviewed Penn Jillette of Las Vegas magic duo Penn & Teller [...]
For this post, I’ve teamed up with travel writing colleague, Jill Starley-Grainger to come up with our pet peeves about luxury hotels. Jill has come up with eight of the offerings, myself with two and the whole post has to be read over our two websites (well, we have to drive traffic you know). Whether [...]
