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How To Stay Relevant to Your Community Fionn Davenport

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  • How To Stay Relevant to Your CommunityFionn Davenport

  • What is Relevance?

  • How to Be This

  • as opposed to this

  • Its About Relationshipswith the readerwith the travel industrywith employerswith other travel experts

  • Between You & The Reader

  • Small StoriesBiggest Impact

  • Travelling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, the sky all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.- Cesare Pavese

  • Enthusiasms

  • Negativity

  • Theres No Such Thing As A Free Press Trip

  • The Credibility Gap

  • For Things to Remain the Same, Everything Has to Change

  • Understandable Language?#spon / spons#ad#sponsored

    clear and conspicuous disclosures

  • A New DealThe Whole Truth And Nothing But The Truth

    I am a professional travel writer. In order to continue working in my chosen profession, I am partially reliant on travel industry support to reach those places that I cannot afford to out of my own pocket. But I do not take freebies in exchange for positive coverage. I am committed to being honest and fair in everything I write. Why? Because in order to be successful, I am wholly reliant on your trust. Without it, Im irrelevant.