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Visit London Media Centre

Meet the Team

• Ken Kelling, Communications Director

  • Overall responsibility for the Communications team
  • Provide strategic direction for Visit London’s corporate and consumer communications
  • Lead director for Visit London’s Olympic-related PR strategy

• Rania Wannous, Corporate Affairs and Communications Manager

  • Manage Visit London’s corporate communications strategy including crisis communications programme
  • Support Visit London’s Olympic media and PR strategy
  • Oversee public affairs programme

• Mark Howell, Senior Project Manager 2012

  • International Media Liaison for London 2012
  • Development of the London Media Centre for non-accredited Olympic media
  • Visit London 2012 Games co-ordination

• Jonathan Hale, Public Affairs Manager

  • Manage Visit London’s integrated public affairs strategy
  • Provide advice on political developments and policy issues
  • Responsibility for Visit London’s political and stakeholder relationships

• Jamie Talmage, Business Analyst

  • Produce tourism industry trend reports
  • Forecast future tourism industry performance levels to London
  • Assess the potential of new tourism markets for London

• Chloe Couchman, Business & Major Events Communications Manager

  • Manage business tourism communications for UK, Europe and Asia-Pacific
  • Maintain Visit London’s profile as London’s Business Convention Bureau
  • Deliver local press knowledge for major events coming to London

• Jacqueline French, PR Manager Long Haul

  • Lead consumer PR campaigns in North America, Japan and Australasia
  • Promote London as a world-leading travel destination in long haul markets
  • Support Visit London activity in key emerging markets including India and China

• Eileen Becker, PR Manager Europe

  • Lead consumer PR campaigns in France, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Italy and Netherlands
  • Showcase London as a world-leading travel destination in Europe and bring European media to London
  • Support Visit London activity in new destination markets including Russia, Poland and the Nordic countries

• Hannah Collingbourne, PR Manager UK

  • Lead consumer PR campaigns across Britain
  • Liaise with UK national, regional as well as London media
  • Facilitate press trips for UK travel and features journalists

• Jenny Owen, PR Executive

  • Handle day-to-day media enquiries and organise press trips
  • Support the Communications team on consumer PR campaigns and corporate communications
  • Produce the monthly ‘What’s New’ e-newsletter for media contacts and the weekly corporate newsletter for Visit London partners
  
  

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