by Lorraine | Sep 29, 2014 | Blog, Destinations, Getaways, hotels, Luxury Travel, Travel, Travel PR
As my friends and family know all to well, I am a bookworm at heart. I buy them used on Amazon and plow through them at a rapid rate. I always tell interns, if you want to be a good writer, then read a lot. So, here’s a list of books I want to read when staying at a...
by Lorraine | Sep 26, 2014 | Destinations, Getaways, hotels, Luxury Travel, Social Media, Travel, Travel PR
When The New York Times publishes a story that says, “Pinterest is the Key Traffic Partner,” everyone wakes up and should listen. Its something we’ve been telling our hotel and travel clients for a while: a Pinterest board can be your top referral site – even more...
by Lorraine | Sep 19, 2014 | Blog, Destinations, Getaways, Travel, Travel PR
When organizing a group press trip – commonly known as a FAM (short for familiarization) – one very effective way to reach out is through the various groups on Linked-In that are read by travel journalists, and there are quite a few. Of course, allow a few days to...
by Lorraine | Sep 11, 2014 | Blog, Destinations, Getaways, Luxury Travel, New York City, Travel, Travel PR
Since I have had the good fortune to visit dozens of countries over the course of my travel PR career, I wanted to share some of the most amazing from NYC – both big and small that come to mind. (Stay tuned in future blogs for sites outside of the Big Apple!) Brooklyn...
by Lorraine | Aug 25, 2014 | Blog, Destinations, Getaways, Luxury Travel, Travel
“We travel for romance, we travel for passion, and we travel to be lost,” wrote Ray Bradbury. The notion of traveling to be lost resonates with me because we travel to be found as well. The experience of loosing ones bearings is something every traveler is bound to...
by Lorraine | Aug 22, 2014 | Blog, Destinations, Travel, Travel PR
If anyone has taken the time to read the series of reflections on his life by Karl Ove Knausgaard, they have likely been riveted by his extraordinary reflections of a simple but complex and deep life on an island northern Norway in the 1980s and 1990s. Reading the...