About Alastair McKenzie
I'm a travel journalist with one foot in traditional media and the other in social media.
I've been a radio travel journalist since 1989 and an online travel journalist since the millennium... ok, just before the millennium.
In that time I have visited over 50 countries - many of them more than once, and a few up to a dozen times (eg USA).
I am an active member of the travel blogger & social media community.
I am Vice-Chairman of the British Guild of Travel Writers, and the guild's webmaster, responsible for the guild's website and its travel industry contacts database.
I freelance as a commercial audio journalist recording interview and events clips for the travel industry, as a print/online travel journalist, as a webmaster, and I sometimes do talks or training on social media.
Oh yes, and I run the entirely fabulous (and "fiercely independent") Travel-Lists!
And the best description of what I do comes from Spanish social media tourism marking guru, Joantxo Llantada.
"You, Alastair, are a communicator" (you have to imagine it in a Spanish accent)