Global Travel Media Team

Stephen Morton
Publisher / Editor-In-Chief

e-Global Travel Media’s Publisher and Editor-In-Chief, 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

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Peter Needham
Managing Editor – Australasia

e-Global Travel Media’s Managing Editor, Peter Needham, has long been considered one of Australasia’s foremost tourism writers and columnists. Over the past 20 years, Peter has written for many major publications in Australia and Asia, both consumer and trade, including weekend newspaper travel supplements, magazines, dedicated travel titles and websites.

Peter’s background includes seven years as Editor of Inside Tourism – at the time, Australia’s only weekly travel industry publication, and other editorial roles with Traveltrade (Australia), Australian Associated Press (Sydney Bureau), Reuters(UK), and the Los Angeles Times / Washington Post News Service (European Bureau, London). Peter was also a reporter for The Guardian (London).

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Matthew Thomas
Managing Editor – The Americas

e-Global Travel Media’s North and South American editor,Matthew Thomas, was the former editor of The Americas for Travel blackboard as well as the editor for Black  Meetings and Tourism Magazine.

Also a prominent member of a number of prestigious organisations including the Board of Governors of the World Centre and the Board of Directors of the San Francisco African American Chamber of Commerce, Matthew now covers the latest developments and news within the American travel industry.

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Jill Walsh
Business Tourism Editor

e-Global Travel Media’s Business Tourism Editor, Jill Walsh, first began her career in journalism in Perth, W.A. in the early 1990s.

Now based in Melbourne, Jill has written articles for a number of business tourism titles, lifestyle and leisure magazines, and Sunday newspapers in Australia, New Zealand and Asia. Jill covers business tourism for the interactive news service in Australia and abroad, where she often attends the world’s leading trade shows on behalf of the team.

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Stephen Power
Editor at Large

My role is to bring you the most up-to-date news from the ground and in the air, with real examples and experiences that are relevant to every travel professional.

Get insights and reviews of airlines, hotels, tours and cruises as we cut through the hype. With over 15 years of travel experiences to draw on and compare to the latest offerings, we’ll see which providers are going the extra mile to attract and keep their customers.

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Peter Watson
Editor at Large

Peter Watson has spent most of his working life in the “travel” business working in shipping, aviation, wholesale and retail travel sales as well as owning and operating two retail stores. It is however in retail distribution that Peter has become best “known”; first with Jetset where he developed and launched the original “Jetset Travel” franchise and then created, developed and launched the NAITA network.

Peter was also CEO of ATAC for just over four year and was part of the management group that merged National World Travel; Travelworld and ATAC into the fledging Travelworld group, which ultimately morphed into the Jetset Travelworld Group (JTG). Peter then spent three years as GM of the Concorde Agency Network before leaving Concorde in March 2007 to successfully launch Travel Counsellors in Australia. Peter left Travel Counsellors in May 2010.

Peter brings unprecedented travel industry experience and knowledge to his role as an “Editor at Large” and sees his role as sharing that knowledge and experience in a series of commentaries and stories on the industry, the people and the places that are special to him.˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜

Richard Froggatt
Director of Sales New Zealand and South West Pacific
Contributing Editor New Zealand and South West Pacific

Following his recent move to New Zealand, Richard Froggatt has joined the team at Global Travel Media as contributing editor for New Zealand.

Richard is well known in the Australia-New Zealand marketplace having held such senior management roles as General Manager South West Pacific for

Lauda/Austrian Airlines, Chairman of BARA (Board of Airline Representatives of Australia) & Board Member MCVB (Melbourne Convention & Visitors Bureau).

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John Alwyn-Jones
Presenter and Producer eGlobal Travel Media TV
Special Correspondent eGlobal Travel Media

John Alwyn-Jones is a recognised leading travel journalist and broadcaster in the region and a specialist in on line travel television, recently as Presenter and Producer of e-Travel Blackboard TV and Special Correspondent for e-Travel Blackboard and previously having set up TravelMole and TravelMole TV in Australia, New Zealand and the S Pacific.

He has reported from and produced and presented on location on line TV programmes from England, Wales, Scotland, France, Croatia, Italy, Greece, Fiji, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Indonesia, Bali, Hong Kong, New Zealand and many other destinations and also from many trade events, with many more exciting global destinations and events planned for eGlobal Travel Media TV.

John is known as an industry leader in the region and further afield having previously held senior management positions at a number of leading travel and tourism organisations, including the British Tourist Authority [now Visit Britain] in Australia and the USA, Tourism New South Wales, KPMG, Ernst & Young and in the UK with The National Trust and the Wales Tourist Board.

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Andy Warner
Director Of Sales  Australia/ New Zealand
Features Editor

e-Global Travel Media’s Director of Sales, Andy Warner, is one of Australia’s most skilled advertising executives, bringing with him over 30 years experience in display advertising, both in print and electronic media.

Working with the Sydney Morning Herald for nine years before moving on to international media representation, Andy has worked on some of the world’s leading magazine and newspaper titles.

Heading up the Australian sales team, Andy’s core object ive i s  to provide every  advertiser with a tailored program  that delivers their interactive business message to thereader.

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Primphapa Tamtrong (June)
Business Development Manager

e-Global Travel Media Business Development Manager, Primphapa Tamtrong (June) looks into promoting and taking Global Travel Media to higher extends. June’s experience at sales marketing and in-depth knowledge about advertising are her biggest strengths. And that’s not it, her hard work and pleasing personality helps her to get her way around advertisers and make them want to keep advertising with us.

In-charge of the Thailand sales, June’s aim is to give all her advertisers a confidence that they will never go wrong advertising with us.

Kanchana Ganglani
Journalist

e-Global Travel Media Journalist, Kanchana Ganglani is our on location journalist who brings the latest travel happenings and attractions of Bangkok. Working with the magic of words and her passion for traveling, she delivers to you news about the city. And also not to forget her unique style which entertains the reader and makes them urge for more.

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