Applications for the Travel Media Awards Step Up scheme — driving diversity and inclusion in the travel media industry by providing young people with practical experience — are now open.

For summer 2025, Step Up is able to offer five candidates the opportunity to undertake paid placements with the founding partners, as well as welcoming six new companies to the scheme. Each of the five winners will undertake four-week placements with two of the 10 companies involved (eight weeks in total) which have been paired up in the following way:

• APL Media & FINN Partners
• TTG Media & Intrepid Travel
• Ink Global & Kuoni
• Metro & easyJet holidays
• The Sun & Virgin Atlantic

Visit the partners page to find out more about the 10 companies involved in the 2025 Step Up scheme.

Offering the chance to gain experience across journalism, publishing, marketing and PR, Step Up encourages applications from young people from underrepresented demographics, including individuals from diverse racial and ethnic groups, people with disabilities and those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds.

The deadline to submit applications is Friday 31 January 2025 at 23:59. Click here to apply now.

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Notes for editors  
Step Up was created by the Travel Media Awards in 2023, with the first intake of winners in 2024.  

The founding partners were APL Media, FINN Partners, Intrepid Travel and TTG Media.  

The 2025 programme is comprised of 10 partner companies (including the above founding four partners) plus easyJet Holidays, Ink Global, Kuoni, Metro, The Sun and Virgin Atlantic.  

Applications for Step Up 2025 will open in December 2024, with placements to be undertaken in summer 2025.  

For more information about our partners and how to apply, visit our website: travelmediaawards.com/2024/en/page/step-up-application or contact us via email: [email protected]. 

 About APL Media    

An award-winning publisher and content marketing agency founded in 1997, APL Media Limited has been changing the narrative, and the way clients communicate with their audiences, for over 27 years. In addition to publishing the award-winning magazines National Geographic Traveller (UK) and Food by National Geographic Traveller (UK) and organising related events under the National Geographic brand umbrella, APL Media produces print, digital and live media across the travel and lifestyle sector. aplmedia.co.uk