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A tribute to my friend, the late travel media icon Arthur Frommer
The legendary U.S. travel journalist and entrepreneur Arthur Frommer passed away November 18 at the age of 95. Born in Virginia and with an early boyhood in a small town in Missouri, Arthur was a lawyer who became a pioneering and great travel journalist, and who will be remembered as having helped open the joys of travel to the masses. While serving in the U.S. Army in Europe in the 1950s, he got the travel bug, came out with a travel guide for servicemen, and followed up in 1957 with…
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To me this reads like a case of Luddite fuddy-duddyism. Hey, I find the word as annoying as the next dog with a lei around his neck, but we gotta live in the present. Twitter is not a fad now, it's a tool for many of us struggling to make a living in this economy. So let's get off our high horse and face reality: Twitter and tweets are here to stay, at least until the next computer geek comes up with something better.
What do you think? You agree with the NY Times on its decision to ban usage of the word TWEET?
On Thursday, June 17th, I will be testifying before the Senate Commerce regarding the Continental/United merger. As a consumer, I feel that reducing our network carriers effectively to three carriers is asking for the disappearance of competition. Domestically there will be Delta, United and American with more than 50% of the traffic and internationally, the alliances will control 85% of the traffic. A consumer nightmare and another industry with members "too big to fail."
I am also working like mad speaking with staffers to mandate that airlines report their fees to central reservation systems at the same time they announce airfares. This way the online systems can figure out a way to allow consumers to compare total air transportation cost. Airfares and beginning to mean less and less with penny airfares already showing up on Spirit.
Please, all of you writers, take a look at this portion of the FAA reauthorization. We need articles stating that consumers should know the total costs for air travel including airline fees as they do their travel planning, not only at the time of purchase.
If you want to talk about it, send email to me at leocha@consumertravelalliance.org.
Thanks for your help.
Wonderful assignment, even though personally I dislike soccer. I would love to see stories about getting from town to town and around town during the cup madness. Is there adequate transportation? Are the fans (make that hooligans) rowdy or under control? What is the security like? The little stuff people do not get much of in the main stream media. Thanks and ENJOY!
- Rovos Rail (South Africa)
- The Blue Train (South Africa)
- The West Highland Line (Scotland)
This publication is aimed at young or youngish readers and wants first-person narratives. Your query should include a the images and links to other stories you've done. No other pitches.
Contact Luke Wright: luke@getlostmag.com
"List of PR Contacts and their Clients?
Hi, I am a freelance travel writer with over 750 articles published in the US and worldwide (print and web) and would love to be put in touch with PR folks who have travel clients and who run press trips for writers. I wonder if such a list of PR companies and their clients exists? If not, I'd be more than happy for public relations companies to contact me with a view to adding me to their database for any upcoming trips. Clips of my work are available on request. I would need airfare provided and I live in San Francisco. Many thanks."
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