About Marian Goldberg
Marian Goldberg is a professional media communicator with over 20 years experience in the travel industry. For the last nine years she has been the Japan National Tourist Organization’s North American Public Relations Manager, and she is now also the public relations council for tour operator, Asia Pacific Travel, Ltd. During her career, Ms. Goldberg has been Managing Editor of the electronic travel information service, Personal Travel Technologies, a researcher and producer for The Travel Channel, and a former Marketing Supervisor for Trans World Airlines. She also owned her own travel marketing consulting firm Travel Resources Unlimited with tour operator and hotel clients, and taught travel and tourism at numerous universities.
Since joining JNTO in January 1997, Ms. Goldberg has traveled to Japan twelve times, managed North American public relations for the Nagano Olympics; set up shoots for 30-odd film crews including CNN; represented Japan on air on both radio and television; coordinated radio, television, and point of purchase promotional campaigns; planned press trips and travel agent familiarization trips, and has been a key Japan contact at industry and academic conferences. Her work has contributed to a quadrupling in the number of tour product to Japan since 1996 – especially in the area of special interest tourism. Her press releases are picked up readily in the media. Last year, her “Found in Translation” release about new tours visiting scenes and locations depicted in Sophia Copola’s Oscar Winning film, appeared almost immediately in the Wall Street Journal, with coverage following in TIME, MSNBC.com, People, Northwest Airlines’ World Traveler, the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, National Geographic Traveler Online, the travel trade press, and more. Her Memoirs of a Geisha release was picked up by the Associated Press and USA Today, along with Los Angeles Times, New York Post, New York Daily News and more. Asia Pacific Travel Ltd, which just launched tours to North Korea, has been featured in all the trade press, as well as the New York Times, USA Today, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Arthur Frommer’s Knight Ridder Syndicated Column, CBS News, Peter Greenberg’s radio show, Good News Broadcast, and even Fuji Television sent a crew from New York to Chicago to interview APT President, Walter Keats, for broadcast in Japan!
Ms. Goldberg had long-standing travel resources and special interest travel columns in Transitions Abroad magazine and was Assistant and then Contributing Editor to the Educated Traveler newsletter. She is co-author of the travel information sourcebook the World Tourism Directory, was one of the initial content developers for Arthur Frommer’s website The Encyclopedia of Travel, co-author of ICTA’s Destination Specialist text for special interest travel, and the author of travel guidebooks and magazine articles.
Ms. Goldberg has conducted numerous travel industry seminars and taught an array of university tourism classes. Among these were: a week-long United States Agency for International Development tourism industry workshop for third-world tourism leaders and courses in Tourism Trends and Impacts and International Tourism Development at the graduate program of New York University’s Center for Tourism and Hospitality Management.
Ms. Goldberg holds a Master’s Degree in Travel Marketing Management from the New School for Social Research.
Marian Goldberg is a professional media communicator with over 20 years experience in the travel industry. For the last nine years she has been the Japan National Tourist Organization’s North American Public Relations Manager, and she is now also the public relations council for tour operator, Asia Pacific Travel, Ltd. During her career, Ms. Goldberg has been Managing Editor of the electronic travel information service, Personal Travel Technologies, a researcher and producer for The Travel Channel, and a former Marketing Supervisor for Trans World Airlines. She also owned her own travel marketing consulting firm Travel Resources Unlimited with tour operator and hotel clients, and taught travel and tourism at numerous universities.
Since joining JNTO in January 1997, Ms. Goldberg has traveled to Japan twelve times, managed North American public relations for the Nagano Olympics; set up shoots for 30-odd film crews including CNN; represented Japan on air on both radio and television; coordinated radio, television, and point of purchase promotional campaigns; planned press trips and travel agent familiarization trips, and has been a key Japan contact at industry and academic conferences. Her work has contributed to a quadrupling in the number of tour product to Japan since 1996 – especially in the area of special interest tourism. Her press releases are picked up readily in the media. Last year, her “Found in Translation” release about new tours visiting scenes and locations depicted in Sophia Copola’s Oscar Winning film, appeared almost immediately in the Wall Street Journal, with coverage following in TIME, MSNBC.com, People, Northwest Airlines’ World Traveler, the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, National Geographic Traveler Online, the travel trade press, and more. Her Memoirs of a Geisha release was picked up by the Associated Press and USA Today, along with Los Angeles Times, New York Post, New York Daily News and more. Asia Pacific Travel Ltd, which just launched tours to North Korea, has been featured in all the trade press, as well as the New York Times, USA Today, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Arthur Frommer’s Knight Ridder Syndicated Column, CBS News, Peter Greenberg’s radio show, Good News Broadcast, and even Fuji Television sent a crew from New York to Chicago to interview APT President, Walter Keats, for broadcast in Japan!
Ms. Goldberg had long-standing travel resources and special interest travel columns in Transitions Abroad magazine and was Assistant and then Contributing Editor to the Educated Traveler newsletter. She is co-author of the travel information sourcebook the World Tourism Directory, was one of the initial content developers for Arthur Frommer’s website The Encyclopedia of Travel, co-author of ICTA’s Destination Specialist text for special interest travel, and the author of travel guidebooks and magazine articles.
Ms. Goldberg has conducted numerous travel industry seminars and taught an array of university tourism classes. Among these were: a week-long United States Agency for International Development tourism industry workshop for third-world tourism leaders and courses in Tourism Trends and Impacts and International Tourism Development at the graduate program of New York University’s Center for Tourism and Hospitality Management.
Ms. Goldberg holds a Master’s Degree in Travel Marketing Management from the New School for Social Research.
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