The Delights Of World Travel Market - Nott(ingham) Harry Potter, Jews' News
Drum beats echo as you wander past pictures of the world's highest hotels, romantic restaurants, and amazing waxwork museums' hologram faces. You photograph robots offering you leaflets, on your way towards double decker tourist buses temporarily turned into bars. Flag-waving countries with floor to ceiling videos have music-blaring stands divided areas into desks for tourist boards which display newly opened and renewed tourist attractions on the world's continents at The World Travel Market.
November may be a dull month worldwide but in London it's all happening. As usual I expect six foot girls in corsets from Las Vegas, maple syrup pancakes from Canada, Belgian beer and chocolates from factory shops, French wines from the Champagne region, saucers of dates and nuts from Arab countries, leaflets from Israel, Palestine, all smiling PR people.
Upstairs in the press office you get catalogues too big to carry all day, plus heavy goodie bags containing free CDs on tourist attractions if you are prepared to listen to 2 hours of statistics confused by government reps who speak no English but are translated by well-spoken saints into muttering microphones and Confusion he says. The important aim for travel writers is to network and collect address cards from tourist boards. Better still, if you are lucky, meaning eagle-eyed and beaver persistent, a busy editor who wants articles about your last trip.
Just when you are ready to collapse from dehydration and exhaustion at six o'clock the show's exits close. You are trapped like children following Germany's Piped Piper as Caribbean bands can be heard echoing across the halls. Limitless cocktails stop you stumbling up the four flights of stairs at the nearby DLR.
Did you buy a copy of a newspaper with a free big umbrella and lug the heavy newspaper around all day whilst tripping people up with the umbrella (two and four years ago) - or did you postpone buying until the evening and find they had run out of umbrellas or didn't have them this year (three and five years ago).
Olympia
The exhibition was originally held at oval Kensington Olympia, where a plaque recorded how sedate Queen Victoria in her tiara watched whooping Red Indians riding horses with Wild Bill Cody. I'm now researching budget hotels. If you have any suggestions, please tell me.
I used to think that it was hard to reach Olympia in time and often persuaded an expensive Kensington or new hotel hungry for business and publicity to give me a four-poster bedroom for the night.
In my happy heyday I was a honeymoon specialist always in the honeymoon suite writing for Brides, Northern Echo or any newspaper whose staff I bumped into at events at WTM. Editors please call me.
Jewish Travel Guide, Anne Frank and Amy Winehouse
Now I'm blogging and self-publishing guidebooks. My latest is a Jewish Travel Guide A-Z. I started with Amsterdam's Anne Frank and compiled it for my own reference when speaking on radio. At a previous World Travel Market I discovered that Poland's most visited site is Auschwitz (featured on Polish and UK school trips). I've visited Schindler's Museum in Krakow, Poland's beautiful medieval former capital.
But my list of must visit one day tell me more still includes Nigeria's Queen of Sheba burial site which I heard about at a previous World Travel Market. I've also researched every country in the world from biblical times to WWII. Biblical sites, for example include Yemen's Queen of Sheba attractions.Thoughout the year I watch the news. Amy Winehouse's dress was bought by a fashion museum in South America.
Wish List Of Writers', Songwriters' and Singers' Homes
On previous visits to the show I learned about Elvis's Jewish connections, lots more sites to see in the USA singers, and country singers; and an Australian country singers' museum.
As for researching tourist sites connected with my fellow authors, I haven't yet seen R L Stevenson's last home and monument in the Pacific, nor Harry Potter which is near me and a real possibility for a visit. If you have visited these places or have any other suggestions please contact me
angelalansbury@hotmail.com
Here's your link to what's on at The World Travel Market 2012 at Edexcel
http://www.wtmlondon.com/
Drum beats echo as you wander past pictures of the world's highest hotels, romantic restaurants, and amazing waxwork museums' hologram faces. You photograph robots offering you leaflets, on your way towards double decker tourist buses temporarily turned into bars. Flag-waving countries with floor to ceiling videos have music-blaring stands divided areas into desks for tourist boards which display newly opened and renewed tourist attractions on the world's continents at The World Travel Market.
November may be a dull month worldwide but in London it's all happening. As usual I expect six foot girls in corsets from Las Vegas, maple syrup pancakes from Canada, Belgian beer and chocolates from factory shops, French wines from the Champagne region, saucers of dates and nuts from Arab countries, leaflets from Israel, Palestine, all smiling PR people.
Upstairs in the press office you get catalogues too big to carry all day, plus heavy goodie bags containing free CDs on tourist attractions if you are prepared to listen to 2 hours of statistics confused by government reps who speak no English but are translated by well-spoken saints into muttering microphones and Confusion he says. The important aim for travel writers is to network and collect address cards from tourist boards. Better still, if you are lucky, meaning eagle-eyed and beaver persistent, a busy editor who wants articles about your last trip.
Just when you are ready to collapse from dehydration and exhaustion at six o'clock the show's exits close. You are trapped like children following Germany's Piped Piper as Caribbean bands can be heard echoing across the halls. Limitless cocktails stop you stumbling up the four flights of stairs at the nearby DLR.
Did you buy a copy of a newspaper with a free big umbrella and lug the heavy newspaper around all day whilst tripping people up with the umbrella (two and four years ago) - or did you postpone buying until the evening and find they had run out of umbrellas or didn't have them this year (three and five years ago).
Olympia
The exhibition was originally held at oval Kensington Olympia, where a plaque recorded how sedate Queen Victoria in her tiara watched whooping Red Indians riding horses with Wild Bill Cody. I'm now researching budget hotels. If you have any suggestions, please tell me.
I used to think that it was hard to reach Olympia in time and often persuaded an expensive Kensington or new hotel hungry for business and publicity to give me a four-poster bedroom for the night.
In my happy heyday I was a honeymoon specialist always in the honeymoon suite writing for Brides, Northern Echo or any newspaper whose staff I bumped into at events at WTM. Editors please call me.
Jewish Travel Guide, Anne Frank and Amy Winehouse
Now I'm blogging and self-publishing guidebooks. My latest is a Jewish Travel Guide A-Z. I started with Amsterdam's Anne Frank and compiled it for my own reference when speaking on radio. At a previous World Travel Market I discovered that Poland's most visited site is Auschwitz (featured on Polish and UK school trips). I've visited Schindler's Museum in Krakow, Poland's beautiful medieval former capital.
But my list of must visit one day tell me more still includes Nigeria's Queen of Sheba burial site which I heard about at a previous World Travel Market. I've also researched every country in the world from biblical times to WWII. Biblical sites, for example include Yemen's Queen of Sheba attractions.Thoughout the year I watch the news. Amy Winehouse's dress was bought by a fashion museum in South America.
Wish List Of Writers', Songwriters' and Singers' Homes
On previous visits to the show I learned about Elvis's Jewish connections, lots more sites to see in the USA singers, and country singers; and an Australian country singers' museum.
As for researching tourist sites connected with my fellow authors, I haven't yet seen R L Stevenson's last home and monument in the Pacific, nor Harry Potter which is near me and a real possibility for a visit. If you have visited these places or have any other suggestions please contact me
angelalansbury@hotmail.com
Here's your link to what's on at The World Travel Market 2012 at Edexcel
http://www.wtmlondon.com/
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