General Guidelines | Interview Guidelines | Picture Guidelines | Interview and picture request forms can be downloaded here
- 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 November 9. However, we advise you to get requests in as soon as possible as spaces are snapped up very quickly.
- Interviews conducted in the week before WTM (November 14-November 17) stand no chance of getting in the first daily paper.
- A separate news team is responsible for producing the WTM daily editions of 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 more beer!!).
- Click here to download SEPARATE REQUEST FORMS for interviews for the first daily published on Monday, November 14 and for interview and picture requests for each of the subsequent dailies.
- Please fill in the appropriate form and send to Patricia Thomas 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 21. Telephone interviews take place from October 31 to November 9.
Other dailies: The interview and picture request deadline is Friday October 28. 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.
INTERVIEW GUIDELINES
- We do not want to waste time interviewing people who have nothing to say. Stories such as refurbishment 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 Patricia Thomas 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 it 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.
Travel Weekly has photographers working at WTM on the Sunday before the show and the Monday, Tuesday and 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 Patricia Thomas and marked “WTM Monday daily”.
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- Pictures that fail to make the first edition will be considered for the subsequent editions of the dailies.
