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Phil Davies runs a media consultancy offering a range of specialised skills. He is a leading media trainer with a client list of high profile companies including P&O Cruises, Expedia and TUI Travel.
An experienced editor and reporter, Phil offers a combination of writing skills and industry knowledge to companies both in the travel sector and outside. He can provide strategic support to PR companies as well as report writing and editing.
services
Media training services range from effective press release writing and working with the media through to managing media relations and crisis management.
Phil is able to create bespoke courses for groups or individuals who want to raise their profile while avoiding banana skins. He can run through tricks of the trade and highlight how to best manage forms of new media.
His ability to understand the workings of journalists and PRs puts him in a unique position to offer advice on handling press relations to ensure companies achieve the best possible exposure.
Phil is regularly employed to assist companies with their PR strategies, project work, report writing and research. He offers extensive travel industry knowledge and top-level contacts both in the media and travel trade.
WRITING AND EDITING
Using his experience as former editor of the UK’s leading travel industry news magazine Travel Trade Gazette and online news service www.TravelMole.com, Phil helps companies produce newsletters, internal communications, customer magazines. He also provides content for online and print media.
TESTIMONIALS
Captain Paul Brown, P&O Cruises:
“The media training was the most useful training I have ever had, apart from learning how to drive the ship.”
Morgan Van Selman, product manager, P&O Cruises:
“I have had to deal with interviews a lot over the years and found the session very comprehensive and useful, particularly the ‘grilling’ interviews and to think of your answers rather than their questions part to the session.”
Gray Grieve, managing director,
Capela Travel Training:
“Phil has conducted media and PR training for travel industry personnel on behalf of Capela over several years. He is reliable, knowledgeable and very straight to deal with, and delegate feedback has been consistently excellent. I could not recommend Phil more highly.”
portfolio
As a specialist cruise industry journalist, I edit bi-monthly cruise magazine Cruise Trade News and write a weekly cruise blog for www.virginholidayscruises.co.uk.
I am experienced in writing brochure copy and have a series of interviews with celebrity chefs featured in the 2011-12 P&O Cruises brochure.
Other recent commissions include supplying cruise destination content for Teletext Holidays’ cruise supplements for the Daily Mail and for Virgin Holidays Cruises.
I have also written for the Daily Telegraph’s travel news section, ABTA Magazine, Ports & Destinations, Destination UK and Voyager, the cruise magazine for travel agents in the Worldchoice consortium.
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about
Phil Davies – freelance journalist and media trainer
My media consultancy offers a combination of writing skills and industry knowledge to companies both in the travel sector and outside.
I have been a journalist for 30 years with experience in both weekly and daily newspapers and online news. I also have experience in editing customer and staff magazines.
Using my experience as former editor of travel industry news magazine Travel Trade Gazette and editor of online news service www.TravelMole.com, I also provide editorial and write blogs for websites run by travel agencies in the cruise sector.
Now working as a freelance journalist for leading travel trade title Travel Weekly, I also assist companies in preparing strategies, PR plans, reports, newsletters, internal communications, customer magazines and internal journals.
Neil Oliver, cruise director, P&O Cruises:
“I found the training very useful. As we all think we know what to say at the right time but this gave us the correct tools to use. I would feel more confident with the media from now on. Also I was interested to see news/current affairs from another angle. The scenarios were very helpful and I think a lot of this was due to us being in small groups.”
Paul Ludlow, UK director Princess Cruises:
“I was very impressed with the course, I came away feeling more confident and better equipped to tackle interviews moving forward.”
