WORLD TRAVEL MARKET
PREVIEW & DAILY SHOW EDITIONS 2004
Please circulate this information to all your colleagues to
avoid unnecessary telephone calls to Travel Weekly staff.
To receive an interview request form, or if you have any queries
regarding the WTM daily editions, NOT THE PREVIEW FEATURE
please contact editorial assistant Beth Craven on telephone
number 020-8652 8230 or email beth.craven@rbi.co.uk
Any queries regarding WTM Preview, please contact features
staff.
| WTM Preview Feature – Travel Weekly October 29 2004 |
The WTM Preview is a comprehensive round-up of what show visitors
can expect to see at ExCeL. It is compiled by the features team at
Travel Weekly. A brief will be sent out to writers by September 24
so you don’t have long to get your ideas/information in.
INFORMATION REQUIRED
We will be looking for exclusive leads on new products, brochure
launches, market trends, pricing and marketing campaigns. Writers
do not want recycled stories of past events or developments that
have already happened, ie, a brochure launch or hotel opening which
occurred in September.
DEADLINES
Information/press releases to be supplied directly to writers no
later than October 8
Picture deadline (NB colour transparencies/hi-res digital files or
good quality prints only) by Friday October 10. Please send
pictures to features editor Teresa Machan marking them clearly as
pictures for inclusion in WTM Preview. Teresa can be reached on
020-8652 8241.
CONTACTS
All preview feature information should be addressed to the Features
Desk.
This year, Features editor Teresa Machan will co-ordinate
releases and ensure they are passed on to relevant writer.
- Features editor – Teresa Machan Tel: 020-8652 8241; e-mail: teresa.machan@rbi.co.uk
fax: 020-8652 3956 - Deputy features editor – Matthew Hampton Tel: 020-8652 8258;
e-mail: matthew.hampton@rbi.co.uk - Senior features reporter – Ross Bentley Tel: 020-8652
4242; e-mail: ross.bentley@rbi.co.uk
| WTM Daily Papers – November 8-11 2004 |
GENERAL GUIDELINES
- Travel Weekly produces four daily papers at WTM – one for
each day of the show. The first daily paper is put together in the
three weeks before the event, with reporters carrying out
interviews over the telephone. The final production deadline for
the first issue is Wednesday November 3. However, we advise you to
get requests in as soon as possible as spaces are snapped up very
quickly. Obviously, interviews conducted in the week before WTM
(November 1-November 5) stand no chance of getting in the first
daily paper. - A separate news team is responsible for producing the WTM daily
editions at the show. Our editorial office at ExCel is in Waterside
room 22. You may drop off press releases to this office, but please
do not bring clients – especially if you have missed your
interview. Please keep visits for essential enquiries only as we
have constant deadlines (you can bring gifts of beer, wine, food
and erm, more beer!!). - Enclosed are SEPARATE REQUEST FORMS for interviews for the
first daily published on Monday November 8, and for interview and
picture requests for each of the subsequent dailies. Please fill in
appropriate form and send to Beth Craven at the address provided or
by fax to 020-8652 3956. We will contact you to confirm the
interview. We CANNOT guarantee that you will get your requested
interview slot, although we will do all we can to accommodate you.
Those wishing to do pre-show interviews to appear in the Monday
edition should put a suggested time and date for the telephone
interview to take place.
First daily: The interview request deadline is
Friday October 8. Telephone interviews take place from October 11
to October 25.
Other dailies: The interview and picture
request deadline is Friday October 29. Interviews at WTM take place
on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of the show. You will see that the
form asks you to state where you would like the interview to take
place. Please ensure you provide a mobile number on which you will
be contactable on the day.
GUIDELINES FOR INTERVIEWS
- We do not want to waste time interviewing people who have
nothing to say. Stories such as refurbishments of individual hotels
are not worthy of an interview but may be used if submitted in
press release form. If you have such a story for the first daily,
send it to Beth Craven at our Sutton offices marked “WTM First
Daily”. Ensure you have included contact details. If you have such
a story for the other dailies, please hand in at the Travel Weekly
newsroom at the event. - ExCel is a very big place and it takes a good five minutes to
walk its length. Please tell your clients to remember that when
they are off exploring – they must leave sufficient time to
get back to their stand for interview at the agreed time. Reporters
are VERY BUSY and work to a very tight schedule. They WILL NOT wait
while your clients are collected from the bar etc. A general
guideline is that interviews will take around 15 minutes unless it
is a particularly important story. The best stories for the dailies
will be selected for the following weekly edition of Travel
Weekly.
GUIDELINES FOR PICTURES
Travel Weekly has photographers working at WTM on the Sunday before
the show and the Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday of the show.
- We prefer exclusive stories and pictures for all the dailies
and we will consider submitted stories and pictures for the first
daily. The best pictures – that’s the most colourful and
newsy – will be considered for the front page. Send to Travel
Weekly offices for the attention of Beth Craven and marked “WTM
Monday daily”. Pictures that fail to make the first edition will be
considered for the subsequent editions of the dailies.
Have a great WTM.
Martin Lane
Editor