Journalists Guide To TravMedia

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Journalists’ Guide to TravMedia
This guide will show you how to use the following features of TravMedia:
- Email Alerts - Photo Library
- News Room - Press Centre
- Press Releases - Other Essential Features
- Journalist Alert

TravMedia is the only dedicated travel industry Our community ensures that communication
news distribution service, supplying you with between organisations and journalists is as
the latest news wherever you are, at whatever streamlined as possible.
time of the day.
Whether you are a news-based journalist,
Created exclusively for journalists, TravMedia features writer, researcher or you work in any
offers you free access to breaking press other area of the media, TravMedia is here to
releases, together with photographs, company help.
information and PR contact details from over
1300 travel industry organisations.

airlines | rail, coach & bus | cruising | hotels & resorts | car hire
tourism boards | associations | skiing | tour operators | theme parks / adventure | online travel | attractions

JOURNALISTS’ GUIDE TO TRAVMEDIA

EMAIL ALERTS

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The news you need ... straight to your Inbox
TravMedia supplies DIRECT ACCESS
registered journalist Email alerts allow you to scan all
breaking news for stories of interest.
users with breaking news From the alert you can:
via email alerts, - Click through to the site to read,
delivered on an hourly, download or print press releases
daily or weekly basis, to - Send an email or place a call
suit your requirements. directly to the relevant PR contact
- Go straight to the photo library
of that organisation and
download high-resolution images

TAILORED TO EACH USER’S NEEDS
At TravMedia, we understand the
information overload that email can
bring, so we developed the ‘Edit User
Profile’ feature. This allows you to
tailor email alerts to your specific
requirements. Alerts can be tailored by:
- Fields of interest
- Frequency
- Browser requirements



NEWS ROOM

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All the industry’s news in one place
TravMedia’s News Room BREAKING NEWS
is the hub of our service TravMedia distributes press
releases from organisations across
where you’ll find the latest the travel industry.
news from organisations
worldwide, including FINDING ORGANISATIONS
national & international TravMedia’s user-friendly menu bar
(located on the left-hand side of the
tourist boards, tour webpage) places all our customers
operators, attractions, into appropriate categories.
hotels & resorts, airlines,
car rental companies and NEED TO BE MORE SPECIFIC?
Use our search facility to find
online travel organisations.
specific stories or to research by
subject area. You can search within
an individual organisation or the
whole of TravMedia.



PRESS RELEASES

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The centre of TravMedia’s service
You can access releases DOWNLOAD
Once you have found a press
either from our email release of interest you can view
alerts, or by visiting the site or download it from the site.
directly. Releases appear TravMedia allows you to print,
with company logos, images copy and paste as you wish.
and PR contact details. PHOTOGRAPHY
The majority of press releases on
TravMedia, feature accompanying
photography.
From any press release, you can
click into an organisation’s image
library and download free-for-use,
pre-captioned, high-resolution
images.

VIDEO



PHOTO LIBRARY

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Searching for the bigger picture?
TravMedia hosts high- HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGES
resolution (300dpi) When you click on a thumbnail,
a window will pop up giving you
photographs and logos and the option to download the high-
videos from companies and resolution image. From here just
organisations across the follow the link and save to your
computer.
travel industry, which you
can download for free. VIDEO

1. Click on the image that
you would like to download

2. Click on ‘Click here to
download the full size photo’

3. Click on ‘Save’ to save the
image to your computer



PRESS CENTRE

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Logo, pictures, information and more in a dedicated area
Each registered company INFORMATION TAB
The information page provides
on TravMedia is given a you with an overview of a specific
dedicated ‘press centre’ organisation’s operation.
on the site.
CURRENT NEWS TAB
Allows you to view and download
You’ll find each company’s recent press releases.
press centre by selecting
the company through the NEWS ARCHIVE TAB
Allows you to view and download
site’s left-hand navigation past press releases.
panel (airlines, cruising
hotels & resorts etc) PHOTOS TAB
Provides a library of high-resolution
free-to-use images provided by the
organisation

CONTACT TAB
Clicking this will automatically fire
up an email to the PR contact.

WEBSITE TAB
This link will take you directly to the
company’s own news room on their
corporate website.



JOURNALIST ALERT

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The ultimate tool for the media to communicate their needs to PR professionals
This feature allows the HOW JOURNALIST ALERT WORKS
Whether you’re writing a news
media to instantly tell story or researching a feature or a
hundreds of PRs about trip, Journalist Alert enables you to
their story needs. issue an email to PRs industry-wide
about your needs.

You simply log your need HOW TO SEND AN ALERT
within the TravMedia site, You can access Journalist Alert
either from the ‘Journalist Alert’ icon
and the technology then at the top of any TravMedia email,
instantly generates a or from within the TravMedia site
‘Journalist Alert’ email to (you’ll see ‘Journalist Alert’ half-way
down the left-hand toolbar once
TravMedia PR users, telling you’re in the site). Simply fill in a
them how they few simple boxes, and we’ll issue
can help. the alert as soon as we’ve checked
it complies with our conditions.

CHOOSE YOUR DISTRIBUTION
Our default settings mean that your
Journalist Alert will only be sent to
PRs in your country. However, you
can have it sent to PRs in other
worldwide TravMedia regions and
you can even include journalists in
the distribution, if you so wish.



OTHER ESSENTIAL FEATURES

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KEEP YOUR PROFILE UPDATED
If you move company or address,
it’s incredibly easy to keep your
details updated, ensuring you don’t
miss out on any breaking news.
Just click the ‘Edit User Details’
button towards the bottom of the
site’s left-hand navigation bar and
change your details as required.

USEFUL LINKS
TravMedia provides hundreds of
useful links to food, restaurant,
airlines and wine industry
organisations and beyond. Here
you can search within categories,
alphabetically or using key words.


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occasional piece that requires some research. So if you
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IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, OUR WORLDWIDE REPRESENTATIVES WILL BE PLEASED TO HELP.

AUSTRALIA UNITED KINGDOM NEW ZEALAND HONG KONG UNITED STATES OF AMERICA DUBAI

Nick Wayland Howard Salinger Shane Boocock Gary Kitckening Mark O’Toole Sharon Garrett
Phone: +61 (0)2 9953 1914 Phone: +44 (0)20 7559 6616 Phone: +64 (0)9 372 2525 Phone: +85 (0)2281 00 532 Phone: +1 617 399 8900 Phone: (9714) 346 1763
nick@travmedia.com howard.salinger@travmedia-uk.com shane.boocock@travmedia.com gary.kitckening@travmedia.com mark.otoole@travmedia.com sharon.garrett@travmedia.com


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