Travel Public Relations Specialist

New York, USA (Remote)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive earned media for Trove's travel and destination clients in an agency PR role with hands-on writing and multi-client support.

  • Must-have: 2-3+ years in travel/pr or related PR plus strong writing
  • Standout: Existing relationships with travel, lifestyle, or consumer media
  • Standout: Experience supporting fast-moving earned media campaigns across multiple clients

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Draft press releases, media pitches, briefing documents, media lists, and client updates
  • Build and maintain relationships with journalists, editors, and freelancers across travel, lifestyle, culture, food, business, and consumer publications
  • Represent Trove and its destination clients in external-facing communications
  • Support earned media campaigns across multiple clients in a fast-moving agency environment
  • Contribute ideas, take initiative, and ask good questions

Requirements

  • 2-3+ years in travel, tourism, hospitality, lifestyle, destination, or agency PR
  • Strong writing skills across press releases, pitches, media alerts, and briefing docs
  • Solid public relations, communications, and media relations fundamentals
  • Experience building media lists and communicating with journalists, editors, and freelancers
  • Familiarity with travel, tourism, destination marketing, or hospitality communications
  • Existing relationships in travel, lifestyle, food, culture, or consumer media a plus
  • Understanding of strategic communications and earned media campaign support
  • Sharp attention to detail, organization, and follow-through
  • Comfort juggling multiple clients and deadlines
  • Bachelor's degree in PR, Communications, Journalism, Marketing, Tourism, or related field preferred
  • Proactive, professional, and eager to learn and grow with the team

Preferred

  • Existing relationships in travel, lifestyle, food, culture, or consumer media a plus
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    Trove Tourism Development Advisors

    Trove Tourism Development Advisors is a leading tourism strategy and marketing agency with a digital edge. We have worked with 25+ destinations to "stand out" in a crowded travel market.Learn more about us at www.trovetourism.com

    New York, New York, USA
    18 employees (10 in marketing)

    Traffic Signals

    Monthly Visitors
    184
    Traffic Source Mix
    Search
    43.1%
    Direct
    35.7%
    Referral
    13.6%
    Social
    4.5%
    Paid
    1.5%

    Headcount Trend

    Current headcount: ~19

    Marketing Team

    Marketing Team Size
    8 (44% of company)