A walk along the riverside in Richmond upon Thames, south-west London, is always a treat and I feel privileged to pass this pretty waterfront every day on my commute to and from the Travel PR offices in St Margaret’s. Amongst the myriad attractions to enjoy at the moment is no less than the [...]
Klout, that most renowned metric of social media influence, continues to inspire as much criticism as it does worship. For all that some treat it as gospel, there are ever more naysayers in the digital room. A recent blog by Travelblather on the subject, spurring a spree of comments, followed a worrying feature by Seth Stevenson on Wired. He examined [...]
The Pride of Britain Hotels AGM, held on Monday at The Goring hotel (David Morgan-Hewitt, Managing Director of The Goring, also being Chairman of Pride of Britain Hotels) brought a few unexpected surprises – risqué jokes from Peter Hancock, Chief Executive, over lunch and an amusing resumé of Morgan-Hewitt’s hotel career, culminating with a recent meal [...]
When did you last have the opportunity to run the 100m in one of the original Greek stadia dating back to 300 BC, your name being announced as you emerge, blinking and barefoot, from the dark of an ancient tunnel into the bright sunshine of the stadium, having just changed into a white tunic in the [...]
Guest blog by Heinrich Hall, a core tour leader for our client Peter Sommer Travels and resident of Athens, about the current Greek situation. Regarding the practicalities of travel in 2012, travellers should be encouraged to come to Greece if they are so inclined – the fact that the country’s situation may deter visitors is [...]
In a new social-media initiative, we have collated the digital results of a recent visit by Sue, Anthony and Mika to the Costa Alentejana, in the unexplored Portuguese region of Alentejo, using Storify. Storify is a clever new platform which allows users to spin narratives or plot timelines by curating tweets, Facebook updates and pictures, [...]
Continuing our innovative social media work, Travel PR will be documenting its latest overseas visit via the means of Storify. Between 9-12 February, Sue, Mika and Anthony will be exploring Portugal’s uncharted Alentejo region. Updates on the trip, delivered through Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Instagram and YouTube, will be neatly collated on a Storify story called [...]
Guest blog by Simon Tregoning, Chairman of Classic Cottages Tourism and schools are subjects upon which most of us feel able to offer an opinion because we all went to school and most of us go on holiday. So, putting the two together, it is easy to understand the temptation faced by Government ministers to [...]
Travel on the Paris Metro and you will find a network inundated with names of people -some famous (Emile Zola, Victor Hugo, Franklin D. Roosevelt), some not (Etienne Marcel, Richard Lenoir, Louise Michel) – and a huge number of Saints: Michel, Sulpice, Placide, Ambroise… to quote but a few. This got me thinking about Travel [...]
Guest blog by Chris Wright, Managing Director at GIC The Villa Collection and Sunvil: Summer 2012 brings with it the long anticipated Olympic Games. But even at the beginning of the bidding process, back at the start of the millennium when the country was more prosperous, the nation was divided as to whether the Games [...]