Press mentions and content features
Mar and Once in a Lifetime Journey have been featured in other publications as experts in luxury and out of the ordinary destinations. This is some of the recent coverage.
- Ara newspaper (print and online) – Professional Luxury travel bloggers
- INSIDER – The underwater hotel room at Manta Resort
- HuffPost – The world’s best beaches
- Thrillist – Treehouse restaurant delivers dinner in a zip line in Thailand
- Travel+Leisure – 5 Stunning Places You’ve Probably Never Heard of but Need to See, According to a Woman Who’s Traveled to 100 Countries (Video)
- HuffPost – 20 places to spot wildlife
- CreditDonkey – Best luxury travel blogs
- Real Clear Life – World’s least visited countries
- News.com.au – 5 times in the wrong place at the wrong time
- News.com.au – Interview about North Korea
- Pink Pangea – Conversation with intrepid traveler Mar Pages
- USA Today – Good Places to travel in Europe with elderly people
- News.com.au on Bora Bora
- Zipkick blogger at We said go Travel
- Travel Massive Leader of the pack interview
- Two Can Travel interview about working for Google in Singapore
- Frequent travel Interview with Nomad Wallet
- Caught in the wrong place at the wrong time for Mapping Megan
Articles written by Mar
Although not the core of the business or of the team’s focus, we have written a few articles and pieces for other publications related to influencer marketing and/or some off the beaten path destinations of luxury experiences. Below is a sample of some of them.
- Matador Network – 20 things you didn’t know about North Korea
- BBC Travel – Djibouti Photo Essay
- Mumbrella Asia – There is so much more to a travel influencer’s success than just sales and bookings
- Flight Network – 48h in Singapore
Speaking engagements and conferences
Mar attends all the major travel and digital marketing conferences and trade events including ITB Asia, Web in travel, International Luxury Travel Market, Digital Travel APAC and TravMedia’s IMM and has a long track record of public speaking from her previous career in telecommunications and consulting. Below are some of the recent speaking engagements.
- ITB Asia 2018 – Moderating a panel on How the smaller booking players succeed in a cluttered market
- ITB Asia 2019 – How to maximise the impact of Influencer Marketing campaigns
- Digital Travel APAC 2018 – Out of the box session on Influencer marketing
- Mumbrella Asia Travel Marketing Summit 2018 – Moderating a panel on ROI from Influencer marketing
- Mumbrella Asia Travel Marketing Summit 2019 – Participation on a panel discussion about programmatic advertising
- Tern Travel Careers 2019 – Panel discussion about travel careers
- Live interviews during WIT 2018 for Travel Massive Facebook
- Travel Massive Singapore 2019 – How to effectively work with content creators to sell