{"id":22239,"date":"2010-05-19T08:19:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T08:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/mike-smith-former-travel-editor-appointed-to-new-role-3\/"},"modified":"2010-05-19T08:19:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T08:19:00","slug":"mike-smith-former-travel-editor-appointed-to-new-role-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2010\/05\/mike-smith-former-travel-editor-appointed-to-new-role-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Smith, Former Travel Editor Appointed to New Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.travmedia.com\/images\/db\/269664.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/www.travmedia.com\/images\/db\/269664.jpg\" width=\"133\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>After a 28-year stint at News Ltd respected journalist, travel writer and travel editor Mike Smith has joined the travel and tourism industry to pursue a new career in the world of marketing and public relations.<\/p>\n<p>Mike has joined World Trade Travel \u2013 the principal company of Asian travel wholesaler <a href=\"http:\/\/helenwongstours.com\/\">Helen Wong\u2019s Tours<\/a> &#8211; as the newly-appointed General Manager \u2013Public Relations and Marketing.<\/p>\n<p>His role will be to generate &#8211; and build on &#8211; marketing, promotional and trade opportunities for companies and organisations seeking a presence in the Australian market.<\/p>\n<p>World Trade Travel already represents the Macau Government Tourist Office and the Henan Provincial Tourism Bureau (China).<\/p>\n<p>For more than 20 years Mike has worked closely with the travel industry, firstly as Travel Editor of Sydney\u2019s Daily Mirror, then in the position of Travel Editor of The Sunday Telegraph and The Daily Telegraph, both in NSW.<\/p>\n<p>Many of his travel articles have also been widely circulated throughout News Ltd\u2019s mass circulation newspapers, including Melbourne\u2019s Sunday Herald Sun and Brisbane\u2019s Sunday Mail.<\/p>\n<p>Mike can be regularly heard on Sydney radio station 2UE as a guest commentator on travel on Sunday\u2019s popular George and Paul show.<\/p>\n<p>Through his voluntary work with the Australian Society of Travel Writers (ASTW), he has been honoured with Life Membership, having spent 10 solid years on committee, four as President.<\/p>\n<p>In welcoming Mike to her executive team, Ms Helen Wong, Managing Director of World Trade Travel and Helen Wong\u2019s Tours, said his appointment would be vital to the company\u2019s development and expansion plans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMike will play a major role in promoting and gaining exposure for our clients,\u201d said Ms Wong. \u201cWe are looking to the future by expanding our business interests.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a 28-year stint at News Ltd respected journalist, travel writer and travel editor Mike Smith has joined the travel and tourism industry to pursue a new career in the world of marketing and public relations. Mike has joined World Trade Travel \u2013 the principal company of Asian travel wholesaler Helen Wong\u2019s Tours &#8211; as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}