Behind the Scenes with Global Travel Media

Experienced travel, tourism, aviation, and more, writer, journalist, and broadcaster and commentator, with 25+ years senior sales, marketing, pr, and media experience in the UK, Europe, USA, Asia and Australia.

Former owner and Editor of TravelMole Australia, New Zealand, and the S Pacific. Former Presenter, Producer, and Special Correspondent eTravelBlackboard and eTravel Blackboard TV.

Currently Special Correspondent, Aviation, Travel and Tourism and Cruise, Global Travel Media, Presenter and Producer Global Travel Media TV www.eglobaltravelmedia.com and freelance for various titles Regular contributor to ABC Radio and other media globally and in Australia on travel, tourism, aviation and related topics.

Member of the IFWTWA - The International Food Wine & Travel Writers Association - a global network of journalists who cover the hospitality and lifestyle fields, and the people who promote them. Fellow of The Tourism Society - an organisation of leading professionals working in tourism and travel, including educators and students, and others interested or involved in the visitor economy across all its sectors worldwide.

Global Travel Media's Founder / Publisher and Executive Editor, Stephen Morton, brings over thirty years of experience in the travel industry. Working in every aspect of the travel trade – from travel wholesalers, airlines to working in a family owned travel business – Stephen was also the founder of e-Travel Blackboard, which under his direction, became Australia's number one daily travel news service.

Expanding the electronic news service beyond Australasia to n international distribution and readership, Stephen and his team of experienced travel trade journalists are now delivering the world's most comprehensive and dependable travel industry news bulletins each day.

Peter Needham is a journalist and travel writer, currently managing editor Australasia for Global Travel Media, as well as freelance writing. Background includes seven years as editor of weekly travel industry magazine Inside Tourism and an eight-year stint in London working in turn for the Guardian newspaper, Los Angeles Times/Washington Post News Service (Europe) and Reuters, Fleet Street.