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>  Current work:

»  I have been working as the International Media Relations Officer for the Quito Visitors' Bureau since January 2007.

I have worked for the organisation for three years, editing their website and the monthly newsletter in English, but took on a more permanent role in 2007.

For personal news, go here


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PROJECTS

I've had an extemely busy time. There's everything to do. But there is a great feeling that Quito is gaining a place on the tourism and media map, and it's an exciting place to be right now. For example, the city made the New York Times Travel "Places to Go in 2008" in December - a great seal of approval from a world authority.

On the road talking to travel agents. Toronto, Canada, May 2007In 2007-8, I have worked in conjunction with the Bureau's representation company in the UK, copywriting for both advertorial and advertising, working on online seminars, attending trade and consumer shows, and liaising with journalists.

I worked on various Bureau promotional projects in the travel industry in the United States and Canada, including a roadshow titled 'Meet Ecuador' in May, and its second part 'See Ecuador' in October. I was also part of the 'Meet Ecuador' roadshow in May 2008 (see photos here). I was responsible for putting together the presentation on Ecuador given by Pancho Dousdebes. All were regarded great successes.

Sam Brown at the Middle of the WorldI worked with my colleagues helping various journalists, travel writers, photographers and film crews who came through the city. The most important of these was probably Travel Channel's 'Passport to Latin America with Samantha Brown'. For more on that, go here. To read this year's press releases, go here.

I put a lot of energy and thought into the city's promotional website. We restructured and reworked the whole thing this year, triplicating the content and hopefully making it a) far more easy to find information, and b) far more inspirational. The new site went live in September. It receives nearly 1,000 visitors a day.
My hope is that it will rank among one of the best 'official' websites worldwide, with great navigation, search capabilities and a degree of interactivity not usually found on such websites. I have great plans for its future.


»  Writing text for a forthcoming book by Ecuadorian photographer Anamaría Chediak on the flowers and flower farms of Ecuador, titled 'Bloom'.



»  Insight Guides: recently-published new edition of their Ecuador guide which I worked on.

»  Tour leading: I have led various tours in Ecuador and the Galapagos over the last years. Due to my work with the Visitors' Bureau, I won't be leading many tours now, apart from for alumni tours for Cambridge, Oxford and Leicester universities run by IMA. In February 2008, I lead an alumni tour to Antarctica. See images here.

>  Recently published:

»  Text editing for my friend Pete Oxford's new book on the Huaorani Indians of Ecuador's Amazon, titled 'Spirit of the Huaorani'.
»  "Heart and Soul" in Geographical, August 07 issue, about Quito
»  Photographer Murray Cooper's book on Ecuadorian birds, Plumas, which I edited sections of.
»  JPM Guides Ecuador & The Galapagos Islands - a pocket guide for which I contributed the Ecuador chapters.
»  "The Inca Trail" in Adventure Travel, UK.
»  "Road to Riches, Road to Ruin" (Amazonian road, Peru) in Geographical, September 06 issue.

See WORDS for more on these...



'Agua', a coffee-table book following water's journey through Ecuador, published in December 05

>  Site updates:

»  Quick Ecuador slideshow-video on YouTube here.
»  Antarctica images.
»  Meet Ecuador images.
»  Scans of Ecuador images from 2008 here.
»  Images from the Semana Santa procession in Quito at Easter.
» Latest Galápagos images.
» New format picture galleries: see Cordillera Blanca, Peru, Ecuador and the Galápagos.
» Head in the Clouds: article on the cloudforest (pdf format).

» New sites: Design for Sarah Darling, a British artist living in the Galapagos Islands. Also, design and text for a friendly hostal in Huaraz, Jo's Place.
»  A redesign (and re-code!) for website BirdVenezuela.com.

>  Pipeline Prospects:

»  Forthcoming Peru guide for the award-winning DK Eyewitness series.

»  A book-guide to Ecuador's different ethnic groups, tentatively titled 'ID Ecuador'.

» "Martín Chambi" in South American Explorer - US.

»  A talk about Ecuador and the Galapagos, and Quito, at Canning House in London in 2008, the home of the Hispanic and Luso Brazilian Council.



»»  Fancy signing the GUESTBOOK?




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