Storytelling Staples
Your Blueprint For Great Destination Stories
This full-day event for travel industry partners will cover fundamentals of great travel storytelling & tools to improve day-to-day operations. Storytelling Staples is a one-of-a-kind opportunity to get insights and the behind-the-scenes of what makes stories compelling. Join award-winning journalist Yulia Denisyuk and VTC for a storytelling workshop aimed to elevate your skills in a full day of immersive workshops, discussions, and actual tools you’ll be able to use on the job.
Workshop Schedule:
Early morning: The anatomy of a story
- 8:15 – 9:00 Gathering & Breakfast
- 9:00 – 9:15 Welcome
- 9:15 – 9:45 What is a good story and why do we care?
- 9:45 – 10:45 Interactive: How to find compelling angles & intrigue your audience with hooks
- 10:45 – 11:00 Break
Late morning: Storytelling in practice
- 11:00 – 12:00 Interactive: Content development & distribution (how to stand out in a fragmented media landscape)
- 12:00 – 1:00 Tools you can use on a limited budget and manpower
- 1:00 – 2:00 Lunch
Afternoon: Best practices of working with media
- 2:00 – 3:00 The journalist’s wish list
- 3:00 – 4:00 The ABCs of successful partnerships
- 4:00 – 4:30 Wrap-up
Optional post-workshop meet-up at Place TBD
The workshop will take place Thursday, January 18th, 2024, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Quirk Hotel Charlottesville. Price is $50 per person.
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About Yulia
Yulia Denisyuk is an award-winning travel journalist who turned to a media career after working as a US Navy Sailor and a Fortune 500 brand manager. Yulia’s work appears in The New York Times, National Geographic Traveller, TIME, Conde Nast Traveler, BBC Travel, Vogue, Lonely Planet, and more. For past assignments, she’s shared a roof with nomads in Mongolia and traced the origins of Iznik tiles with artisans in Turkey. Yulia is the founder of NOMⴷD + JULES, a small-group travel company and Travel Media Lab, a platform and podcast for and about travel media. Yulia frequently speaks at conferences and events and teaches workshops around the world.
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