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Travel

1) Here are the safest hotels for coronavirus (Forbes)

2) Lead Generation marketing – looking for specific examples (MarketingSherpa)

3) Living in Hotels (New York Post)

4) Without travel, how are you getting "together" for the holidays? (ExpertFlyer Blog)

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Travel

1) Summary: Here are the safest hotels for coronavirus

Name: Chris Elliott Forbes

Category: Travel

Email: query-bfro@helpareporter.net

Media Outlet: Forbes

Deadline: 7:00 PM EST - 28 October

Query:

I'm researching a story about the safest hotels for coronavirus.
Which hotels and hotel chains have the best sanitation
practices, the most customer-friendly cancellation policies, and
the safest rules for avoiding a COVID infection? I'd love to
hear from customers who have stayed in hotels and either felt
safe -- or unsafe. I'd also be interested in hearing from hotel
experts who have researched this topic. How safe are hotels
during COVID? Which hotels are safe? What are the risks for
COVID-19 you stay in a hotel? How can you stay safe at a hotel?
I'd also love to hear from hotel chains that have implemented
new safety measures. What have you done, and how is it different
or better than your competitors?

Requirements:

Please read this before answering. I'd be very grateful if you
could send an initial response to my questions by email. Please
do not respond with a note that says you would like to be
considered for this story or want to set up a phone interview
with a source. I'm happy to consider you for this story. I've
included all of my questions in this query. Please take a minute
to briefly answer them. Kindly do not cut-and-paste answers from
previously published materials, such as press releases or blog
posts. If a phone interview is necessary, I will follow up right
away. Be sure to include your full name and a jargon-free, brief
(two to three word) description of your company or affiliation
as you would like it to appear in the article. I will do my
absolute best to acknowledge that I received your pitch and will
make every effort to let you know when the story appears. More
information on my queries can be found on my site:
https://chriselliotts.com/frequently-asked-questions-about-media-queries/

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2) Summary: Lead Generation marketing – looking for specific examples

Name: Daniel Burstein MarketingSherpa

Category: Travel

Email: query-bg35@helpareporter.net

Media Outlet: MarketingSherpa

Deadline: 1:00 PM EST - 29 October

Query:

The specific lead gen marketing example can be from any industry
and should include: * Before * After * Results * Advice
for other marketers based on your specific example * Your/your
sources' role in the campaign

Please include your (and/or your client's) name, title, and
company, so we know how to attribute you in the article if your
example is chosen (if your proposed source works for an agency,
platform or other vendor, we need a quote with advice for
marketers from someone who actually works at the brand/client as
well).

Feel free to include your LinkedIn and Twitter handles for when
we share the article with our audience on social media
(https://twitter.com/marketingsherpa).

Here is a key piece of content we'll be sharing in the article,
to spark your thinking:

https://marketingexperiments.com/lead-generation/the-lead-gen-fulcrum-with-22-case-studies

Here are previous articles to give you an example of what the
final published article will look like:

https://www.marketingsherpa.com/article/case-study/subscription-marketing-4-mini-case-studies-of-recurring-revenue-products

https://www.marketingsherpa.com/article/case-study/ecommerce-10-mini-case-studies-successful-marketing-online-shopping

https://www.marketingsherpa.com/article/case-study/understanding-what-customers-want-5-mini-case-studies

A few things I do to make the experience better for sources:

- I respond to every pitch to let you know I got it

- If you are included in the article, I will send you a link
once it is published

- If you have a question, I will answer it

Requirements:

Specific examples of lead generation marketing, with results and
lessons learned

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3) Summary: Living in Hotels

Name: Mark Ellwood New York Post

Category: Travel

Email: query-bghi@helpareporter.net

Media Outlet: New York Post

Deadline: 5:00 PM EST - 2 November

Query:

Maya Angelou had an amazing writing routine, which centered
around hotel rooms. She said: "I rent a hotel room for a few
months, leave my home at six, and try to be at work by
six-thirty. To write, I lie across the bed, so that this elbow
is absolutely encrusted at the end, just so rough with
callouses. I never allow the hotel people to change the bed,
because I never sleep there. I stay until twelve-thirty or
one-thirty in the afternoon, and then I go home and try to
breathe; I look at the work around five; I have an orderly
dinner--proper, quiet, lovely dinner; and then I go back to work
the next morning." A few months ago, I noticed tweet from The
New Yorker's Rachel Syme, planning to do much the same thing:
"for the first time, i am booking myself a hotel room in nyc
this week to lock myself in and write and i don't know why in a
decade i've never thought of this before" That concept's more
pertinent now than ever, of course given that hotel rooms are
now being proactively rented out for reasons other than
overnighting, as hotel operators try to find new revenue streams
in the wake of pandemic-induced travel implosion, as has been
widely covered. So we want to find some folks who have moved
into hotels full-time, semi-recently (i.e. during 2020) and can
talk first hand about why and how they decided to live in a
hotel full-time. Here are the parameters: all hotels we feature
must be within the Tri-State area (NJ, NY, CT), and ideally
upscale (four star or above). We would need whomever is a
semi-permanent resident to speak, on record, about how and why
they chose to move in.

Requirements:

Please send me a single para pitch with the subject line: LIVING
IN HOTELS No attachments, please - all emails with attachments
will be deleted unopened. Please reply directly to this email,
rather than emailing me via other methods. I'll be reporting
this out week of November 2, so please make sure that anyone
offered is available to answer questions over that period.

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4) Summary: Without travel, how are you getting "together" for the holidays?

Name: Lisa Kaslyn ExpertFlyer Blog

Category: Travel

Email: query-bgi2@helpareporter.net

Media Outlet: ExpertFlyer Blog

Deadline: 12:00 PM EST - 30 October

Query:

Looking for interesting and innovative holiday workarounds for
getting together with faraway friends and family when travel
isn't an option...Also interested in holiday gift ideas for the
frequent traveler who won't be flying anytime soon.

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