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Who are we loving this month?

Published on February 17th, 2010 in KBC's Latest News Published by Helena Beard

Who are we loving this month?

Our Cracking Client of the Month for February is Krista Lingley for Atlantic Canada Tourism Partnership.Â
 Krista was nominated by Tanya Hillman:

 ‘‘Krista, you have been such a model client over the past six months; responsive, reasonable and with great communication skills.  You have also done a superb job of juggling the needs of all the partners and translating varying priorities [...]

The ESTA is now mandatory

Published on February 17th, 2010 in KBC's Latest News Published by Helena Beard

If you’re travelling to the States, you need to get an ESTA.  Visit USA sent out the following advice:
ESTA MANDATORY FROM JANUARY 20, 2010
The position relating to the ‘grace period’ of 1 year for full compliance with the ESTA requirement has now been clarified and the date for implementation has    finally been resolved.
US Customs and [...]

An iconic venue for an iconic evening with Atlantic Canada

Published on February 3rd, 2010 in Atlantic Canada Tourism Partnership, KBC's Latest News Published by Helena Beard

An iconic venue for an iconic evening with Atlantic Canada

Last night was a triumph!  Fifty celebrities from the world of travel media and the travel industry descended on (and ascended up) The Gherkin to be entertained by Atlantic Canada. Â
We’ve only been working with Atlantic Canada for six months but, already in that time, we’ve hosted two other events; a media reception at World Travel Market, [...]

Kate ’sorts her life out’ with Pete Cohen

Published on January 26th, 2010 in KBC's Latest News Published by Helena Beard

Our Managing Director, Kate Burgess, has decided to ’sort her life out’ on an 8 week motivational course devised by GMTV’s lifestyle guru, Pete Cohen.  Our client, Freedom Leisure, is offering the 8 week course at Uckfield and Hailsham leisure centres and the first session started last night.  So we packed Kate off to find [...]

Top 10 Tips for finding the right PR and Representation Agency in the UK Travel Industry

Published on December 31st, 2009 in KBC's Latest News Published by Helena Beard

If your priority for 2010 is to find a new representation or PR agency in the UK, you are not alone.  The number of public RFPs being issued into the travel market soared in 2009 as tourism destinations, hotel groups and commercial organisations all felt the pressure to ensure they were getting the best service [...]

Christmas Day; bad tidings for the US travel industry?

Published on December 29th, 2009 in KBC's Latest News, Uncategorized Published by Helena Beard

We went into Christmas with a degree of controlled optimism. Things were looking better – the USA had knocked Australia off its top spot as the most desirable holiday destination, North America remained the UK’s favourite long haul destination and the latest Mintel report, although reporting the expected drop in visitor numbers for 2009, had [...]

December’s Cracking Client of the Month

Published on December 16th, 2009 in KBC's Latest News Published by Helena Beard

December’s Cracking Client of the Month

Our Cracking Client of the Month for December is Dave Downey, Community Sports Development Officer at K2, Crawley for Freedom Leisure.Â
 Dave was nominated by Becky Hartfield:

 ‘Dave, you have been so proactive in helping me to promote K2, Crawley this month.  I have been particularly impressed with the time you put into providing us with information [...]

The Great Christmas Party Debate

Published on December 15th, 2009 in KBC's Latest News Published by Travelminx

According to the BBC, 1 in 5 of us workers will be going without our Christmas party this year.  Who to blame?  The credit crunch of course. Who else?
Now, depending on your standpoint on office Christmas parties, (personally, I am no great fan, but I know other people like them), you should really ask yourself [...]

TV Sponsorship – what a laugh!

Published on December 13th, 2009 in KBC's Latest News Published by Helena Beard

Why did Crabbie’s’ sponsorship of the British Comedy Awards fizz over, where Highland Spring’s fell flat?

KBC PR & Marketing launches our ‘Cracking Client of the Month’

Published on December 3rd, 2009 in KBC's Latest News Published by admin

KBC PR & Marketing launches our ‘Cracking Client of the Month’

We thought it was time we acknowledged just how fabulous some of our clients are to work with so we’ve launched KBC’s Cracking Client of the Month.  Each month, we will be recognising one of the clients we work with for their sheer brilliance.
We came up with the idea to launch the scheme while we [...]