I have an eagle eye for a good story and know how to make it work to my client’s advantage.

Current and recent clients include Grenada Board of Tourism, Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Qantas Holidays, travelguru.tv, Anguilla Tourist Board and Oxford Bus Company.

I’ve headed in-house press offices for Air New Zealand and Icelandair & Icelandair Holidays, and led agency PR teams responsible for the Spanish Tourist Office, Mexico Tourism Board, Tourism Australia, Caribbean Tourism Organisation, Utell Hotels & Resorts and Wimco Villas.

I’m also experienced at crisis and issues management.

I am highly regarded and trusted by UK media - from travel editors to trade freelancers, TV segment producers to online hacks – and I champion the commercial benefits of working with local, regional and niche as well as national media outlets.

My services include: consumer & trade media relations, strategic communications planning & delivery, press trips, copywriting, crisis management & reputation recovery, event management & promotion, brand partnerships

What others say about Rob

“Gets the right story, in the right paper, with the right journalist, and always manages the balance between honouring client messaging with the needs of the industry partners. Smooth and measurable encapsulate his way of working.”Karen Tippett, Head of PR & Promotions, Virgin Holidays
“We were thrilled to work with Rob. He was superb in analyzing and setting a strategy for generating media coverage of our destination, scheduling and facilitating an in-country media mission and putting a creative spin on our materials and outreach. His savvy and tenure in this business was vital to the successful branding of Monterey in the U.K. market.”Koleen C. Hamblin, Principal, KOLI Communications, Monterey County Convention & Visitors Bureau
“Rob organised a fantasically informative trip to Minneapolis - he catered for the individual needs of each journalist resulting in a double page spread in a best-selling national weekly magazine from me. He has arranged several spa visits for me, reviewed in the Daily Express.”Debbi Marco, freelance writer and editor:
  
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