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Top Marketing Tips for Brands Looking to Target the Family Travel Market

Blog post by Sarah Salord, GEC PR Company Director

Top Marketing Tips for Brands Looking to Target the Family Travel Market

With the summer holidays upon us, it’s clear to see there’s a renewed focus on family travel. The pandemic unfortunately forced many families to be separated for long periods and as a result, families are now looking to make up for lost time with reunion and muti-generational trips away, both abroad and in the UK.

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Best Value Maldives All Inclusive Autumn Getaways That Avoid The School Holidays

Best Value Maldives All Inclusive Autumn Getaways That Avoid The School Holidays

28 July 2022 – While winter in the Maldives is the ultimate way to escape the cold and grey UK months, serenity and value for money beckons for holidaymakers who can travel to the Maldives this Autumn outside of school holidays.

Not only are flights more affordable and less busy once schools resume, resorts tend to be calmer too, ensuring couples, solo travellers or empty nesters can get the most out of their time away.

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APH.com Expands Partnership With World Land Trust To Support Landmark ‘Buy An Acre’ Programme

Multi-award-winning airport parking specialists Airport Parking and Hotels (APH.com), has expanded its partnership with conservation charity World Land Trust to raise funds for its landmark ‘Buy an Acre’ programme and to help permanently protect threatened habitats.

For every airport parking booking made through www.aph.com/worldlandtrust from 1 August 2022, APH will donate up to 20% of the booking value to World Land Trust to put towards purchasing acres of habitat through its overseas partners.

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Take Pride in Your Organisation’s Success – Enter the West London Business Awards 2023

Entries are now open for the tenth West London Business Awards, which showcase business excellence, and are established as the pre-eminent award scheme in the north-west of the capital. The tenth edition of the awards will shine a spotlight on enterprises that are beacons in the following areas; SME Sector leadership, Sustainable & responsible business’, ‘Economic resilience’, ‘Corporate leadership’, ‘Individual leadership’ and ‘Next Generation entrepreneurship’.

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IS YOUR PROFILE PICTURE TARNISHING YOUR PERSONAL BRAND? SADIA BARLOW PHOTOGRAPHY SHARES 10 TIPS FOR THE PERFECT PHOTO

Creating the right photo to convey your brand can be challenging in the ever-changing digital world we live in, from lighting and positioning to how we dress and where the photo is taken. To help entrepreneurs stand out from the crowd, personal branding specialists Sadia and Ian from Sadia Barlow Photography have shared 10 tips highlighting how to frame the perfect profile photo.

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Why West London Is A Great Business Destination

Blog post by Fiona Anderson, GEC PR Company Director

As destinations go, I am fortunate to have worked, lived in and visited some wonderful countries and cities around the world… The Maldives, India, New York, Kyoto, Cardiff, to name a few. All of these are outstanding places to do business, but I am proud and content to run a PR consultancy in arguably the most connected destination in the world – West London.

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Why Now is The Time To Book Sri Lanka for Summer


29 June 2022 – Escaping to paradise this summer may still be possible if you head to the Indian Ocean island of Sri Lanka. Now firmly back on the holiday agenda after UK government travel advice changed in June, hotels and resorts in Sri Lanka are eagerly awaiting visitors who wish to support the idyllic island through tourism.

Here, Aitken Spence Hotels lists five reasons why Sri Lanka is the perfect place for dreams to come true for British holidaymakers this summer:
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APH.COM SIGNPOSTS NEW RULES FOR DRIVING THROUGH ‘LOW EMISSION ZONES’ (LEZs) IN POPULAR EUROPEAN CITIES

  • Half of countries researched operate the low emission zone (LEZ) all year-round including Austria, Belgium, Germany and UK (where they are known as ULEZ)
  • Fines or penalty charges for driving through low emission zones range from €45 (£38) in Spain to €2,180 (£1,863) in Austria
  • 11 new low emission zones planned for the UK in 2022 including Manchester, Oxford and Bristol

Airport Parking & Hotels (APH.com), award-winning airport parking operator, is helping travellers planning a European road trip this Summer avoid unwanted fines or penalty charges by comparing the new rules for driving in Low Emission Zones across eight of the most popular European cities. More than 200 cities across 15 countries now operate low emission zones (LEZ)*, restricting vehicles with higher emissions from entering unless a fee is paid, or the vehicle is pre-registered with the necessary authority.

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Celebrate World Ranger Day On 31 July – Swarovski Optik And World Land Trust Share Inspiring Wildlife Stories From Five Rangers Around The World

Celebrate World Ranger Day On 31 July
Swarovski Optik And World Land Trust Share Inspiring Wildlife Stories From Five Rangers Around The World

June 2022 – In celebration of World Ranger Day on 31 July 2022, long-range optic specialists SWAROVSKI OPTIK and conservation charity World Land Trust have shared five inspiring stories from rangers working on the front-line of conservation at locations around the world.

Rangers are essential in the day-to-day protection of wildlife, ecosystems and natural resources and World Land Trust’s Keepers of the Wild programme supports many of its partner organisations to employ local men and women to protect these invaluable habitats.

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DAZZLE DAD THIS FATHER’S DAY WITH A LUXURY GIFT FROM SWAROVSKI OPTIK – NEW CL CURIO 7X21 BINOCULARS FROM £630

SWAROVSKI OPTIK, the long-range luxury optics specialist, is helping discerning gift-givers find the perfect Father’s Day present. The new CL Curio 7×21 is the latest member of the SWAROVSKI OPTIK CL Family and offers extraordinary power and design prowess, featuring a beautifully compact body and a strikingly design-forward look and feel. The ideal gift for outdoor adventurous Dads looking to enjoy nature.

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