International Media Marketplace 2019 - Indigenous Canada · 2019-03-29 · International Media...

New York City, USA, January 24, 2019

International Media Marketplace 2019Final Report

Table of ContentsOverview 3

IMM 2019 Canadian Partners 4

IMM 2019 Statistics 4

List of Appointments 5

IMM 2019 Final Report / New York City, USA - January 24, 2019

Sébastien Desnoyers-PicardActing Director of MarketingIndigenous Tourism Association of Canada

Sébastien Desnoyers-Picard is the Acting Director of Marketing for ITAC. Born and raised in Wendake, Quebec, on the Huron-Wendat traditional territory; The Nionwentsïo. Sébastien is a proud French speaking Indigenous person and he’s very involved in defending Indigenous rights and promoting his culture with the rest of the world.

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International Media Marketplace (IMM) is the leading single-day event connecting travel journalists with the industry, enabling exhibitors to make top-level journalist contacts and influence the media’s future output. Each Exhibitors enjoy a dedicated branded table where they can meet top travel journalists, editors and broadcasters to discuss their news, events and developments. For their 3rd edition, the show was a sell out for space and was their largest event to date.

Destination Canada was present for a first time and ITAC took part in the event. Over 53 Canadian partners were present representing the interest of 25 enterprises/associations.

With an average of 22 meetings per partners out of a possibility of 24, all delegates were very busy. Approximately 400 medias were present for about 300 industry/exhibitors.

ITAC had 31 appointments in total. We were very please from the response of the medias as well as the engagement in the follow up process.

Overview

Image: IMM 2019

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Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada / IndigenousTourism.ca

• Quebec Original• Destination Canada• Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada• Fairmont Hotels• Tourism Saskatchewan• Quebec City tourism• Montreal tourism• Nunavut tourism• Quebec Aboriginal Tourism• Destination BC• Edmonton Tourism• Ottawa Tourism• Parks Canada

Number of Booths:

300Total Number of

Professionals:

700Number of

Media:

400

IMM 2019 Canadian PartnersMajor Destination Canada stand partners:

Reference Documents

Destination Canada Market Highlights — Bit.ly/2Fu2HEX

IMM – TRAVMEDIA Website — IMM.travmedia.com

ITAC IMM Photo Gallery — Bit.ly/2FBaCRX

Image: IMM 2019

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List of Appointments

Delegate Company City Country Notes

Pavia Rosati Fathomaway USA

Pavia Rosati is the founder and CEO of Fathom, the award-winning travel platform that celebrates all the reasons we pack our bags, hit the road, and explore the world. Fathom delivers insider advice on the world’s best places, unlocking the world for passionate and curious travelers through inspirational stories, curated destination guides, and best-in-class resources. Fathom connects affluent travelers with expert intelligence, and discerning brands with the travelers they need to reach.

Fiona Tapp Freelance Ottawa, Ontario Canada

Fiona Tapp, is a Freelance Writer and Educator. Her work has appeared in National Geographic, Lonely Planet, Playboy, Rolling Stone, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, TimeOut, Canadian Traveller Magazine, The Washington Post, Brides, Teen Vogue, HuffPost, and many others. Her portfolio can be viewed at FionaTapp.com. She has traveled to over 20 countries on five continents and regularly writes on world travel, wellness, and parenting. Tapp’s varied experience informs her writing as does her ability to connect with a range of demographics, including Millennials through her work at Romper. She provides clean copy that resonates and engages the target audience. One of her latest articles reached a million people and editors regularly praise her on her commitment to deadlines and high-quality content. She also has highly engaged followers with whom she regularly shares her work.

Lydia Sarah Schrandt USA Today New York USA

Lydia Schrandt is a Senior Editor, Video Producer, and Readers’ Choice Production Manager for USA TODAY 10Best, where she covers experiential, adventure, and culinary travel, as well as cruising (particularly with an expedition/millennial focus). Schrandt has traveled to more than 35 countries in Europe, Asia and North and South America, and has lived in Albuquerque, Galveston, Austin, Thailand, Korea, China, Ecuador, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Spain, and now Houston.

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Caryn B Davis Freelance Lyme, Connecticut USA

Caryn is a visual storyteller, award winning photographer, best selling author and world traveler. She has visited over 50 countries thus far. Her images and articles have appeared in over 60 magazines including the New York Times travel section, Celebrated Living (American Airlines), Pacific Wave (Air New Zealand), Connecticut Magazine, New England Boating, All at Sea, the Wall Street Journal, Town & Country, Victoria, Condé Nast Traveler, Fine Art Connoisseur, Connecticut Cottages & Gardens, and others. Additionally, she specializes in architectural photography, interiors, gardens and travel.

Mickela Mallozzi

Bare Feet with Mickela Mallozzi New York USA

Mickela Mallozzi is the Emmy® Award winning Host & Executive Producer of BareFeet with Mickela Mallozzi, a travel series on PBS. The series covers Mickela’s adventures as she experiences the world, one dance at a time. Mickela has been featured in The New York Times, TravelChannel, Dance Magazine, USA Today, et al - she is currently in pre-production for Season 3 (airing nationally Oct 2018). She is also working with a major media company to launch a digital series in the spring, opportunities for branded content for a major travel brand available!

Rich Warren Freelance Colombus, Ohio USA

Ohio-based travel writer Rich Warren travels the country and the world looking for offbeat and off-the-beaten-path stories. He is a graduate of the Elf School of Reykjavik and can tell you what the Amish wear to the beach in Florida! Credits include the Chicago Tribune, Dallas Morning News, Cleveland Plain Dealer, National Geographic Traveler, AAA Home and Away, AAA Highroads, Ohio Magazine,Country Living, Long Weekends, American Way, and others.

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Megan Indoe Bobo & Chichi USA

Megan Indoe is co-owner and the editorial director and destination marketing specialist at Bobo & Chichi, a travel resource with a North America and world-wide audience specializing in travel tips, planning advice, and inspiration for different destinations around the world through written articles that rank competitively on Google through SEO, photography, and videography. Together with her husband Scott Herder, besides being bloggers/influencers they are also a full-on production team that creates bespoke marketing campaigns and videos for destinations, experiences, and international brands.

Sarah Schlichter Smarter Travel Ewing, New

Jersey USA

Sarah Schlichter is a senior editor at SmarterTravel.com, a comprehensive site offering expert travel tips, inspiring destination stories, and timely travel news to feed your passion for seeing the world before, during, and after your trip. Sarah’s practical travel advice has been featured in dozens of news outlets including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, USA Today, Budget Travel, and Peter Greenberg Worldwide Radio. She tweets regularly at @TravelEditor on Twitter.

Kevin WagarFreelance / Wandering Wagars

Brantford, Ontario

Canada

Kevin Wagar is a professional travel writer and photographer with a focus on unique destinations for adventurous family travel. He has garnered a large following on his website WanderingWagars.com and has brought stories to platforms such as Intrepid Travel, The Lonely Planet, Huffington Post, Trip Advisor, and more. Kevin creates fun, engaging, and informative content to help inspire people to experience new destinations.

Julie Rosendo Travel ScopeTopanga, California

USA

Julie Rosendo produces the 6-time Emmy winning PBS travel series, Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope. With 124 episodes currently airing on PBS, Season 11 will be released in August 2019. Travelscope focuses on cultural travel delivering experiential content to the PBS audience of upscale viewers with the interest and financial wherewithal to make their travel dreams a reality. Audience reach is 98% of the US market, all major Canadian cities, international distribution worldwide as well as world-wide streaming through Amazon, with exposure to more than 200 million viewers.

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Alex Beaven Freelance USA

Alex is a roaming freelance travel and food writer focused on unique, curious and quirky travel and food experiences, food as it relates to people and place, food and drink history (and anything being revived), gluten-free travel and dining, and new ways to look at/experience new or well-traveled destinations. She will not cover anything that promotes unethical animal tourism (but alternatives to this are great!). She regularly contributes to Oyster.com, Time Out, Fodor’s Travel, and Simply Gluten-Free Magazine. Her work can also be found in Paste Magazine, USA Today, Yahoo! Travel, Business Insider, VICE, Jetsetter, Edible Manhattan, and more.

Eric Lucas Freelance USA

Eric is a journalist focusing on travel, natural history, sustainability and indigenous culture. Each month his work reaches more than 4M readers in magazines such as Alaska Air Beyond, Westways, Western Journey and more. He’s the author of Michelin guides to Alaska, Hawai’i, Vancouver, British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest, and coauthor of six other Michelin guides. He lives on a small farm in the islands of the Salish Sea, where he grows organic hay, apples and garlic. He doesn’t write about alcohol, consumer goods or retail items of any sort.

Tamara DonTravels With Darley

New York USA

Five time Emmy nominated host, writer and producer of PBS series, including “Travels with Darley” and “Equitrekking,” and social and digital influencer with a popular channel featuring food, culture and adventure travel video shorts on AOL, MSN and 2000 partner sites. Digital, broadcast and social storyteller and content creator. PBS TV series also appear on international networks in over 85 nations.

Anne BanasBBC travel and BBC Global News

USA

Anne is the Editor of BBC Travel, BBC.com’s award-winning travel vertical, where she creates original, engaging, and sharable content – in narrative, photo essay, video, and other multi-media formats. She commissions pitches from a global perspective, while cultivating a worldwide author and photographer network, manages editorial contributors/columnists and staff editors, and is responsible for the site and its management.

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Brandy Yanchyk

Brandy Y productions Inc.

Edmonton, Alberta

Canada

Brandy Yanchyk is an award winning travel host, independent documentary filmmaker and journalist. She is looking for stories from all around the world for her travel show which is expanding. Currently she has made twelve episodes of “Seeing Canada” and two episodes of “Seeing the USA”. “Seeing Canada” is airing across the USA on PBS channels including CREATE TV. Season one of “Seeing Canada” has aired on twenty PBS stations to over eleven million viewers in the USA and will reach 46 million more viewers nationwide when CREATE TV starts airing the series in July 2018. “Seeing Canada” is also airing across Canada on CPAC to eleven million Canadians. Brandy is currently making the second season of “Seeing Canada” and the first season of “Seeing the USA”. Since 2009, Brandy has made eighteen television documentaries that have aired all over the world. Her documentaries have aired on international channels.

Margo Pfeiff FreelanceKnowlton, Quebec

Canada

Margo’s a freelance writer and photographer since 1979. Most of her features include soft adventure, culture and cuisine. She has a special passion for Northern countries as well as emerging destinations. Her stories and photos regularly appear in the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Globe & Mail, Canada’s Explore magazine and Luxury Travel Australia. She has contributed to Lonely Planet books including their Travel Writing Guide. She’s also teaching travel writing at Montréal’s Concordia University and at San Francisco’s Book Passage Travel Writing Conference.

Karen Gardiner

FreelanceBaltimore, Maryland

USA

Karen’s a freelance writer from Scotland. She’s based in Baltimore and has previously lived in Japan, Chile, the Czech Republic, Iceland and Australia. Her work focuses mostly on travel and art, particularly in northern Europe and Japan, and she’s interested in remote places, the Arctic and islands. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, Condé Nast Traveler, BBC Travel, National Geographic Travel, Saveur, Architectural Digest, Travel + Leisure, Bridal Guide, Public Art Review, The Independent, Fodor’s, Paste Travel and more.

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Adam Lukaszewicz

Freelance USA

Hannah & Adam are social media influencers, freelance writers, and photographers who call the world their home. They run the travel website GettingStamped.com which has over 275,000 UMV’s. They’ve traveled to 80+ countries and 6 continents to date with the rest of the world on their bucket list. GettingStamped.com is a place for all things travel including travel stories, guides, tips, photography, and video. Hannah & Adam cover all types of travel from luxury to adventure with an emphasis on couple travel. They specialize in travel photography & video creation with a big emphasis on drone work. Their Facebook videos have been viewed over 40 million times.

Trisha Ping Lonely Planet USA

Trisha is Lonely Planet’s Destination Editor for the Eastern US, coordinating content for 33 states. Prior to joining Lonely Planet, she worked in editorial for more than 10 years, most recently as managing editor of a national book review. She regularly contributes to LonelyPlanet.com and has commented on travel trends for Vogue, USA Today, PopSugar, Wall Street Journal and Men’s Fitness.

Sara Waxman Dine MagazineToronto, Ontario

Canada

Sara Waxman is an award-winning restaurant critic and wine/food/travel journalist. She has eaten her way through much of the free world over the past 30 years, and has written about it in books, newspapers and magazines. With four best-selling cook-books and numerous restaurant guides to her credit; restaurant critic at the Toronto Sun for 25 years, for 10 years, a weekly, international dining columnist at the Financial Post and National Post: contributing editor at Flare, enRoute, Elle magazines, 16 years at Fodors Travel Guides: Vice Chair and member of the Ontario Film Review Board for 10 years: Instructor, Ryerson University School of Continuing Education, her experiences have culminated in DINE and Destinations magazine where she is owner, Publisher and Editor in Chief.

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Elizabeth Harryman

Westways Magazine

Costa Mesas, California

USA

Elizabeth is the Travel Editor of Westways magazine, which has a circulation of more than 4 million, a readership of more than 8 million, and 52 percent penetration of the Southern California market. Westways has won six major Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism in the past seven years and is the member publication of the Auto Club of Southern California. She’s also Travel Editor of six other AAA magazines from Hawai’i to Northern New England, for a combined circulation of about 6 million. With her husband, fellow journalist Paul Lasley, they cohost two daily radio programs that are broadcast to one million listeners in 145 countries and are podcast at OnTravel.com. Both in the magazines and on the podcasts, she does extensive coverage of destinations, cruising, travel trends, and travel tips.

Donnie Sexton

FreelanceHelena, Montana

USA

Pulsing through her veins is a never-ending desire not only to travel, but to seek out the unknown and venture into those off the beaten path exploits. Occasionally the journey gets potholed with mishaps, but more often than not, the road leads to marvelous discoveries about the people, places and culture that make up our planet.

Susan Breslow

Trip Savvy New York USA

Experienced writer who reports on destinations and resorts for romantic getaways for TripSavvy. She also write for CNN Travel, New York Magazine, and Modern Luxury. Member of the Society of American Travel Writers and former president of the New York Travel Writers Association. Right now she’s working on a book that she’s co-writring with Geri Bain — The Complete Guide to Vow Renewals — because she believe this is one of the most exciting trends in travel. The companion web site is OurVowRenewal.com.

Amelia OldPassport From The Heart

USA

Amelia Old is an award-winning former international talent agent. She is the owner of Passports from the Heart where she shares her love for travel and philanthropy. She hopes to encourage her readers to not only travel, but to immerse themselves in the cultures of the places they are visiting and to open their arms to the communities by making a lasting impact while there.

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Andrew Lovesey

Canadian Geographic Magazine

Canada

Andrew Lovesey is the Travel Brand Manager and Social Media Editor for Canadian Geographic and Canadian Geographic Travel. He oversees all social media for the magazines, Canadian Geographic Education and the Royal Canadian Geographical Society — of which he is a Fellow. He has written for some of Canada’s finest publications, including Canadian Geographic, Canadian Geographic Travel, The Globe and Mail, National Post, Flare and ELLE Canada.

Michaela Trimble

Freelance Mexico City Mexico

Michaela contributes to Vogue, Travel + Leisure, GQ, Men’s Journal, National Geographic, Robb Report, AFAR, Condé Nast Traveller UK, Hemispheres, American Way, Rhapsody, Outside, and more. Based in South Florida, she’s a South America expert who travels the world to report on inspiring, impactful adventures. In addition to travel writing and photography, she consults with brands to build their content strategy through digital and creative direction. She’s been to all seven continents, and her passion to explore the world knows no end.

Mikkel Mihlrad

Sometimes Home

Raleigh, North Carolina

USA

Mikkel Paige is a 30-something female avid traveler, who has been a full time professional photographer for nine years. She is located on the east coast, is half of “Sometimes Home” (the other half being her partner, Dan) and enjoys voyaging abroad by land and by sea, domestic road trips and travel by train no matter the location. Their website is focused on great content, with articles averaging between 1,500-2,000 words, including about 15 professional photos per post.

Kae LaniUSA Today, 10 Best

USA

Some travelers follow their hearts - Kae Lani follows her gut. As a Food & Travel Editor at USA TODAY 10Best, she is obsessed with the history and origins of food. Her quest for cuisine has taken her from exploring the Spice Route in Israel to searching for the Geisha coffee bean in Panama. Kae Lani’s motto: Life is too short to live anything but deliciously.

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Laura Powell Freelance USA

Currently covering luxury travel for Skift, Laura has reported on the world of travel for more than 20 years. She developed CNN’s first travel programming and continues to write for CNN.com from time to time. Other regular outlets include Great Day Washington (CBS television); Orbitz Blog and DailySuitcase.com. Laura frequently appears on television stations across the country as a guest travel expert. In print and online, her work has appeared in The Washington Post, Lodging Magazine, Emirates Open Skies, Alaska Airlines Magazine, Hemispheres, Travel Weekly, Good Housekeeping and USA Today.

David StockDivergent Travelers

USA

Lina & David run the travel blog Divergent Travelers and they’ve been traveling since 2001 and nonstop since Feb 2014. They are adventurers with a lust for the outdoors and physical activity. They bring forward an action packed style of adventure travel highlighting exotic destinations, cultures and activities while they travel. As award-winning professional photographers, they capture travel in a way that excites even the most devoted couch potato.

Kristin Hemming

Freelance Minneapolis USA

Kristin Henning is a full-time traveler, writer, blogger, influencer, and fan of fresh air. Kristin keeps up her writing and photography work with the award-winning blog, TravelPast50.com, and contributes to other travel and lifestyle publications. TravelPast50.com presents travel stories, photos, and practical tips for active travelers over age 50. Areas of special interest include adventure travel, history and cultural travel, nature and wildlife, and food and wine. Travel Past 50 conveys stories of personal experience and response to a place, and also provides details for those who are planning their own travels. River cruises, hiking, biking, national parks, UNESCO World Heritage Sites, and other historic sites are all deep content areas.

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