People
Communication is our business. We chat, we blog, we inform, we inspire, we network, we tweet, we listen to and engage with your customers directly and on your behalf.
When it comes to articulating your campaign messages, bringing your brand closer to your valued customers, and managing your reputation online, our people are the key to our success.
Our social media and online PR professionals are experts in their fields, our writers and designers are razor sharp and our IT geeks are friendly. What unites us all is our passion for travel.
Rebecca Genin
Rebecca is one of the UK’s most experienced and talented specialist travel PR professionals. She launched Surf PR to offer a new approach and dynamic online PR services that respond to the travel industry’s internet ambitions for the new digital age.
Rebecca began her travel PR career with a small specialist travel PR agency before moving to the travel division of global giant, Hill & Knowlton.
In 2001, she joined one of the UK’s leading travel public relations consultancies, The Saltmarsh Partnership, rising to the position of Director and handling some of the agency’s major clients, including the tourist boards for Hong Kong and Iceland.
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Geoff Saltmarsh
As managing director of both TSP and Surf, Geoff oversees our clients’ projects and campaigns, with all dedicated online and offline account teams.
Geoff is a former travel trade press journalist – senior reporter with TTGand then editor of the monthly Travel Agency magazine – and is one of the most experienced PR consultants operating in the tourism industry. He remains closely involved with day to day activity for all the agencies’ clients, and particularly with strategy and creative tactics.
Laura Crickmore
Our talented online communications executive, Laura is at the forefront of designing and managing dynamic social media pages and online communities and day-to-day online activity for the agency’s clients, as well as heading up our online reputation management services. A journalism graduate, Laura formerly worked for music magazines, before switching to PR. Immediately prior to joining Surf, Laura was handling online work for an agency specialising in the music industry.
Since joining Surf, Laura has established close working relationships with clients and demonstrated outstanding online capabilities, technical understanding and creative treatments. In March 2009, Surf PR won the ‘Best Use of Social Media’ category in the annual Chartered Institute of Marketing Travel Industry Group (CIMTIG) marketing awards, for the work she has been undertaking for The Adventure Company.
