AN INTRODUCTION TO TRAVEL NEWS UPDATE (TNU)

First published in November 2022 TNU is unique.

We review the travel industry.

TNU, now in magazine format, is a partnership with the original Business Travel News (BTN) and Head for Points (HfP) and published on the first day of each month.

BTN, originally Air & Business Travel News (ABTN), was founded by the late pioneering travel industry journalist John Pointer in the 1970s as a travel trade tabloid published once a fortnight.

Malcolm Ginsberg, previously a public relations consultant specialising in motoring and travel, and publisher of the Flight International Directory series, purchased the title in 1992, later turning it into a weekly newsletter delivered via fax machines. He has written the official history of LONDON CITY AIRPORT – 30 Years Serving the Capital. His CV can be found at www.ginsberg.co.uk

With the advent of the internet BTN became an email newsletter publication and the 'first read' on a Monday morning.

Business Travel News was sold in September 2022 to Head for Points, the UK's biggest business travel site with two million page views per month and 450,000 unique monthly users, with Ginsberg now a contributor.

Rob Burgess, founder and Editor of Head for Points, said: "Malcolm is a legend in UK business travel journalism, with the most impressive contact list I have ever seen. As he reaches his 80th birthday, we are happy to take over responsibility for sending his subscribers their regular Monday morning dose of travel news, drawn from our own content".

TNU features ON THE SOAPBOX with leaders of the industry expressing their views, COMMENT from the Editor-in-Chief., ON TOUR written by travel industry experts, a MOTORING road test, CRUISING plus AND FINALLY.

Business Travel News is not related to the US publication of the same name or its UK offshoot Business Travel News Europe.