Very Private and Public Relations

by Dunn, Jim

• ISBN13: 9781854183927
• ISBN10: 1854183923
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-06-30
• Publisher: Stylus Pub Llc

Summary

This is the autobiography of a Travel PR guru. In Very Public and Private Relations, Jim Dunn takes us on a rollicking ride from poor boy growing up gay in a small town on the west coast of Scotland to the five-star lifestyle of a PR guru in the fledgling travel industry of the early seventies in London. Along the way he tells us about his life as a mummy's boy, his regular encounters on the Love Train home from Glasgow and his first love with a man in uniform. Gay boys don't like untidiness. His life quite literally 'took off' when he got his first job on the weekly newspaper Travel Trade Gazette. The fact that he admits he couldn't type, write or understand one end of PR from the other didn't stop him from creating the UK's leading travel and leisure PR consultancy over the next 3O years. This book is a tour de force of Jim's life and work and is a fascinating insight into the travel business as we know it today - from the decidedly unglamorous British' Benidorm to Hong Kong and the Bahamas. The author Jim Dunn has 40 years' experience in journalism and public relations and extensive knowledge of advising organisations in the corporate, travel and leisure, entertainment, property and financial sectors.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. 6
Oor hoose	p. 7
Granny Molly and other family	p. 18
Parental wars	p. 24
A son to be ashamed of	p. 30
Sex education	p. 35
Poofter	p. 42
Secrets and lies	p. 47
The embezzlement	p. 55
Television time	p. 59
First love	p. 63
Mr James	p. 71
The love train	p. 75
Columnist and thespian!	p. 80
Show business beckons	p. 84
Love at first sight	p. 91
Adulthood	p. 95
On the floor in Streatham	p. 101
George - and the world	p. 104
Travel - first steps	p. 107
The cup of coffee that changed it all	p. 125
Gertie to the rescue	p. 138
Our Gestetner years	p. 141
Home and Jesus the neighbour	p. 149
Real work and a crisis	p. 155
Hotels - a hedonist is born	p. 160
Jim's Chinese Walls erupt	p. 167
Quality Print	p. 173
Hell is a travel agents' convention	p. 177
Stopping the traffic	p. 183
Gays in business	p. 186
All in a PR's day	p. 191
A death in the family	p. 198
A place in the country	p. 202
George's bombshell	p. 225
Taking off for the world	p. 229
Travels with my journos	p. 235
Sheep's eyes and shopping	p. 245
The naked lady of Hampstead	p. 258
Sex in a foreign city	p. 262
On a bed with a Princess - at work with the royals	p. 270
Red noses all round	p. 280
Luvvies and a tribal chief	p. 286
Clients - we love them... but...	p. 295
Mr Benidorm	p. 301
The beauty parade	p. 305
Crisis - what crisis?	p. 310
Brothels and SAM missiles	p. 314
Luxury... and Elizabeth someone or other	p. 319
Knives out from our friends	p. 326
Love letters from Mr Gummer	p. 333
The end and the beginning	p. 339
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