What services do we offer?
- Media exposure - press/broadcast/web
- Picture campaigns
- Marketing support
- Event organisation/product launches - from media receptions, large and small, to conferences - UK and overseas.
- Crisis planning and management, including media training and press conference organisation (see below)
- Destination representation
- Lobbying
- Article drafting, newsletter and web copy writing, speech production
- Press office management, both pro-active and reactive
- Conference speaking; acting as your spokesperson to the media
- One-off projects such as individual press releases
- A flexible range of additional services to meet clients' specific needs and expectations
Crisis Communications
We are experienced practitioners of media handling in a crisis situation, having started by handling two very high profile cases, in Yemen and in the Belgian Congo/Rwanda, many years ago and since then handling crisis situations on a regular basis for a variety of clients and non-clients. The Yemen crisis culminated with us organising a major press conference at London's Gatwick airport for the returning former hostages, chaired by Managing Director Sue Ockwell and attended by 12 TV crews and 120 press; it was broadcast live on Sky.
Sue Ockwell and Ian Bradley are involved regularly in crisis training activities, from presentations to travel industry organisations to individual crisis management training seminars.
Travel PR is retained by several specialist tour operators and by a leading insurance company to handle the media should a crisis arise. Says Sue Ockwell: "We recommend that every travel company should have a crisis plan in place; once a crisis hits, it's important to know who is doing what and one doesn't have much time to think things through calmly in a crisis scenario. Forward planning is key, allied with flexibility according to the nature of the crisis. We're happy to help companies to plan their communications strategies in a crisis situation, and our broad-ranging experience has proved useful to many organisations over the years."