Category Archives: Travel Journalism

Visit Finland looking for Bloggers

Posted on 09/06/2013 by Alastair McKenzie

Fresh on the heels of its successful Blogsposure travel blogger campaign collaboration with Navigate Media in February, Visit Finland are now asking bloggers to apply for a chance to join a new blog trip entitled Bloghome by the Baltic Sea. … Continue reading →

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The Gambia Blog Trip

Posted on 23/04/2013 by Alastair McKenzie

Get ready for a surge of information and photos from The Gambia. Specialist tour operator, The Gambia Experience, is hosting a blog trip to the country with some well-known travel bloggerati. Very few UK tour operators feature The Gambia, and … Continue reading →

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Yaaay! Captain Upgrade is among us once more!

Posted on 08/06/2012 by Alastair McKenzie

The new Captain Upgrade on Twitter come from a longstanding traditional role among travel journalists Continue reading →

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Valentine’s Day? Bah Humbug!

Posted on 10/02/2012 by Alastair McKenzie

Now is the season… to receive endless, endless, Valentines Day themed press releases and special offers. They started with the New Year (actually a few even appeared before then) and they have been rising to a crescendo. My email client … Continue reading →

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Travel Influencers in Innsbruck

Posted on 08/09/2011 by Alastair McKenzie

I’ve been hopelessly distracted by the launch of our new online magazine/portal for travel bloggers, so I’m still mulling over the lessons from last month’s TravelBloggersUnite.com conference in Innsbruck. For those who haven’t been following, roughly 100 travel bloggers from, … Continue reading →

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