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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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"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."
Again, please reply NOT on this comment wall but only at this link.
Lilas Public Relations, raminta@lilas-pr.com, 917-721-1977. She represents lots of high-end properties at Riveria Maya and can probably connect you to tourism sources. Feel free to use my name.
Methinks she didn't want to tell the assembled media that she pays NOTHING for contributions to Travellady.com and her various other sites.