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Nicole Edenedo: Travel Weekly Senior Editor

• Angela Tuell • Season 4 • Episode 19

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In today’s episode, Nicole Edenedo, a senior editor at Travel Weekly, discusses her career transition from broadcast journalism to print, highlighting her extensive experience in the field. She covers tour operators and river cruises, along with sub-beats like trains and sports tourism. Nicole emphasizes the importance of newsworthy elements in her stories, such as the impact of geopolitical events on travel destinations. She shares her extensive travel experiences, including a multi-day hike in Peru and a river cruise in West Africa. Nicole values direct communication via email or in-person meetings for story pitches and is open to exploring over-tourism in future projects.

Follow Nicole’s life and work here: https://nicolemmj.wixsite.com/nicolemmj 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicolee_tv 

 

Travel Weekly: https://www.travelweekly.com/Nicole-Edenedo 

TV Journalist: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiMGSEhZmFf9PBgPEbz5D-A/videos 

Lewes, Delaware: https://www.lewes.com/ 

Rehoboth Beach: https://www.cityofrehoboth.com/ 

The Boys and Girls Club Santa Monica: https://www.smbgc.org/ 

Cal State Northridge – Broadcast Journalism: https://www.csun.edu/mike-curb-arts-media-communication/journalism 

WBOC: https://www.wboc.com/ 

WRDE: https://www.coasttv.com/ 

News 12: https://longisland.news12.com/ 

NY1: https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs 

Verizon FiOS1 News: https://www.verizon.com/about/news/verizon-fios1-news-now-serving-westchester-rockland-and-lower-hudson-valley 

G Adventures Nurtures Culture and Cuisine: https://www.travelweekly.com/Travel-News/Tour-Operators/Focus-on-Culinary-Travel-G-Adventures-nurtures-culture-and-cuisine-in-the-Andes 

G Adventures: https://www.gadventures.com/ 

Alexander and Roberts: https://www.alexanderroberts.com/ 

Peru: https://www.travelweekly.com/South-America-Travel/Peru-on-the-comeback-trail 

Variety River Cruise, Gambia: https://www.travelweekly.com/River-Cruising/Insights/Variety-Cruises-river-cruise-Senegal-Gambia 

Viking Cruise (Nile River): https://www.vikingrivercruises.com/cruise-destinations/egypt/waterways/nile/index.html#noscroll  

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Angela Tuell:

Welcome to Media in Minutes. This is your host, Angela Tuell. This podcast features in-depth interviews with those who report on the world around us. They share everything from their favorite stories to what happened behind the lens and give us a glimpse into their world. From our studio here at Communications Redefined, this is Media in Minutes. On today's episode, we are talking with Travel Weekly's Nicole Edenedo. She is a senior editor covering the tour operator in river cruise industries. Previously, she worked as a television news reporter and anchor for nine years for local CBS, NBC and Fox stations in Maryland, Delaware and New York City, before joining the travel industry in late 2021 Nicole is a native of Los Angeles and currently resides in New York City. Hi, Nicole, thanks for joining us

Nicole Edenedo:

Thanks so much for having me, Angela, so happy today.

Angela Tuell:

Yes, I'm looking forward to it. I have to say, in to be here. preparation for our episode, I saw that early in your career you worked as a television news reporter, and one of your first stations was WBSC in Salisbury, Maryland. And as we were just talking about, I started my TV career there at the competitor station, WMDT. It's such a small world.

Nicole Edenedo:

I know it is, it is. It's such a, it's such a funny, funny thing, because it's, you know, when I, before I moved to to to the Delmarva area, Delaware, specifically, you know, I mean, that's the kind of the running joke there is, you know, Dela-where, and that slice of Delmarva, which is the Delaware, Maryland, Virginia Peninsula. And it's, and it is, it's kind of like this, you know, people, it's funny, people always say, like, Oh, I know Delaware, sort of like, I've passed it or through it. I've driven through it on, like, you know, 95.

Angela Tuell:

Right.

Nicole Edenedo:

Like, going from, like, Philly or New York to, you know, Baltimore or something like that. So, yeah, such a - So, it's such a nice small community. When I, when I meet people who are familiar with the Delmarva Penninsula.

Angela Tuell:

You know what, though you were on the beach there too, which is really cool.

Nicole Edenedo:

I was.

Angela Tuell:

Like, that was a cool first job.

Nicole Edenedo:

Yeah, not bad. Not bad, exactly. I mean, I had a great time. I lived in Lewes, Delaware. A lot of people think it's pronounced Lose, but it's and it's, you know, right next door to Rehoboth Beach, which is-

Angela Tuell:

Yes.

Nicole Edenedo:

A beach resort area. So I did love my time down there. It was very cool, very beachy. And I'm from LA.

Angela Tuell:

Okay.

Nicole Edenedo:

So I'm used to being by water, big bodies of water, by the ocean. That's what I, you know, wanted when I moved to that to that side of the country.

Angela Tuell:

Did you always want to be a broadcast journalist?

Nicole Edenedo:

Um, no, actually, honestly. I mean, I never dreamed of it at all, really. I mean, I had, I had other ambitions and pursuits when I was younger, and I just kind of fell into broadcasting. I I wanted to be a fashion designer. My parents were like, No, there's too much So, okay, like, I want to be a film director competition.

Angela Tuell:

Awe. again, no, too much competition, like, but I honestly, I mean, it just kind of fell in, fell into my lap. I mean, I was in high school, and I'd always been a proud member. I'm an alumni of the Boys and Girls Club of Santa Monica, specifically. Okay.

Nicole Edenedo:

Yes, and it was a great, just a great organization. I did volunteer work there. I worked there while

Angela Tuell:

Yes. I was in high school and so, and I was very involved with the different activities and clubs there, involved with one of them. And, you know, our particular Club was very like, well funded, and we were in Santa Monica, so they had a lot of, like, ritzy fundraisers, and a lot of ties to Hollywood and whatnot, in general. Wow, yeah.

Nicole Edenedo:

And national Boys and Girls Club, Boys and Girls Club of America wanted to launch a website for teenagers

Angela Tuell:

When websites are just really starting to be that had content. This is, like, back in like, 2004 to - great. I mean, big tools they were using.

Nicole Edenedo:

Exactly before. So they were kind of forward thinking, you know, in that, in that way. And so this was like

Angela Tuell:

That's cool. 2005 or so, 2006. And they wanted a website for teens that,

Nicole Edenedo:

And I know, yeah, it was very, very, you you know, had teen reporters who were going out to the different events, red carpets and different prestigious events and awards and things like that that the National Boys and Girls Club was getting invited to, and they wanted to dispatch teen reporters to these high profile events to create content for this teen news thing. know, all long ago, I mean, but at the forefront. And so and so they tapped the Santa Monica Boys and Girls Club. They were like, Hey, can you find us somebody who can do this? And it was down to me and one other girl, and it will, honestly just came down to a game of rock paper scissors you know, in terms of, like, there was this, there was this opportunity. We, they wanted to send somebody to this Radio Disney Concert red carpet -

Angela Tuell:

Okay.

Nicole Edenedo:

Happening, you know, at Disneyland, or something like that. And so they needed a team reporter, and it was just, me and this girl, and so we played for it over rock paper scissors, and I won best two out of three.

Angela Tuell:

Oh, that's awesome.

Nicole Edenedo:

So I got to go. And, you know what? And I and I just, I just tackled it like, I just tackled it instinctively, what, how I thought it should be tackled. Like, I researched, you know, the event, who was supposed to be there. There was going to be all these Disney stars and whatnot. You know, the Cheetah Girls and Miley Cyrus and other ones I didn't know. So I researched the ones I didn't know. I researched what projects they had and what were coming up and all that stuff, and wrote down my questions to ask. And so I did a good job.

Angela Tuell:

Without even being trained at it, you knew what to do.

Nicole Edenedo:

Right, yeah. I mean, I was super, I was super, super nervous when I started, when I, you know, the first couple of people, you know.

Angela Tuell:

Sure.

Nicole Edenedo:

But then, you know, by by the end, and by the, by the time, like the bigger stars came on the carpet, Cheetah Girls and Miley Cyrus, or Hannah Montana she was at the time.

Angela Tuell:

Well, right, right.

Nicole Edenedo:

Yeah, I had gotten my, I found my groove. So it was, it was pretty cool, but, but yeah. From there, I just, you know, they, they love the job that I did. And they just kept asking me back more and more. And I was, that was, I was like, what I was 15, I think, then. And so then I just kept doing, I just kept

Angela Tuell:

Wow. doing these assignments for the Boys and Girls Club. I was their red carpet reporter. And so I got to meet, I got to interview Denzel. Wow.

Nicole Edenedo:

That was his movie, The Great Debaters. I interviewed Oprah on the red carpet. I interviewed again, Miley Cyrus a few times. So it was a really, really cool, a cool gig. And I did that all throughout high school. And, you know, and when it was time for me to, like, kind of figure out, alright, well, like, well, what am I going to do? Because all my other options, my parents said no to. I was like why don't I just, why don't I just do this? Why don't I just do what is this journalism like? Seems like I've already got a good start. So, right? That's what I did and and that's what I ended up pursuing in college, and I graduated with a degree, eventually in broadcast journalism from Cal State University Northridge. They had a broadcast, a good, a great, great broadcast program there.

Angela Tuell:

So speaking of that, talking about your career, how did you go from you know that that job in Delmarva on TV, to where you are now?

Nicole Edenedo:

Yeah, I spent about, overall, I think, a total of three years in in Delaware, on the Delmarva Penninsula. I worked for WBOC, and I worked for WRDE there, which is now owned by WBOC. And so I worked there for about three years. I was there for two years first and after, yeah, I was there for about, I was there for two years first. And then in my, at the, in my second year, I was recruited to come work in New York, to go work in New York at a 24 hour cable network up there.

Angela Tuell:

Wow.

Nicole Edenedo:

And, and so. And that was for somebody recommended city in this, not in the city. It was, it was just outside the city. So, in the suburbs, in the suburbs, and it was this, this station, kind of like News 12 or New York 1 -

Angela Tuell:

Okay.

Nicole Edenedo:

Here in the New York City area, tri state area.

Angela Tuell:

Okay.

Nicole Edenedo:

Horizon - It was a 24 hour cable network. And, and it's, you know, it focused on the suburbs. Like, like, news, News 12 focuses on

Angela Tuell:

Which is still pretty huge, from Delmarva to the suburbs and things like that. So does this station then. New York City, even if it's,

Nicole Edenedo:

Yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly. So you're in the New York City general area. I did cover a few stories here in the, in the city during that job. But I mostly covered, you know, hyper local news that was going on in suburbs and whatnot, Westchester County, Hudson Valley, that sort of thing. And so, you know, so I recruit, went up there was, it was a field reporter for a year, did that. Wasn't sure that I quite liked it and wanted to move back to Delaware. There was also a guy.

Angela Tuell:

Ope. Tell the whole story right now.

Nicole Edenedo:

I know, yeah, it's like, but move back and then finished up another year in Delaware before I finally, eventually moved back to, to New York, but, and then I transitioned into doing morning traffic for this same station. So, so anyways, so yeah, eventually I, I started doing morning traffic several years into my broadcast journalism career, and that was great and fun. And I was doing that in 2019 up until just four months before the pandemic was declared. There wasn't really, it wasn't really a pandemic by then. It was November 2016 okay, my TV station shut down. This was a Verizon FiOS1 News. So my TV station had shut down in November 2019, and and I was, you know, everybody, pretty much like, lost their jobs, so I ended up freelancing for another station in the city. And then, you know, did that temporarily, and then the pandemic hit. And then the pandemic hit, and then any other freelance jobs that I had lined up for the spring, for this 2020 kind of dried up because of the pandemic.

Angela Tuell:

Right.

Nicole Edenedo:

I mean, nobody was hiring.

Angela Tuell:

Right.

Nicole Edenedo:

All that stuff. So I just kind of wrote out the pandemic, you know, here in New York, you know, for those for that, you know, year, over a year.

Angela Tuell:

10 years, it felt like, or whatever.

Nicole Edenedo:

I know, yeah, it felt like forever, you know. And, yeah, I mean, it was like, it was like, the first time I'm like, I'm like, on unemployment, and I'm like -

Angela Tuell:

Right.

Nicole Edenedo:

The world seems like it's ending. And, you know, and I had, I was kind of, like, a little bit at a crossroads. I was just kind of like, what do I, what do I want to do? I could, I could go back home or something, I guess, and, but that's not really what I want to do.

Angela Tuell:

Okay.

Nicole Edenedo:

I found it on LinkedIn.

Angela Tuell:

Right.

Nicole Edenedo:

But I want to stay in New York. And that was the main thing, was that I wanted to stay in New York. So I

Angela Tuell:

Oh, my goodness. was like, Well, I can do more than just, you know, be on TV

Nicole Edenedo:

Shout out to LinkedIn. and do the news and all that stuff and do traffic like I can write. I've always liked writing. I've always been a pretty strong writer. So I started looking for writing jobs in the city to support myself here, and eventually I came across Travel Weekly.

Angela Tuell:

So what was it like going from television news to print, digital journalism?

Nicole Edenedo:

You know, it's been, print has been, has been definitely, has been, definitely interesting. I mean, I'm so thankful that I had my experience in broadcasting.

Angela Tuell:

Yeah.

Nicole Edenedo:

Because I was an MMJ, a multimedia journalist.

Angela Tuell:

Yes.

Nicole Edenedo:

Broadcasting. So I was a one woman band. I, I had a camera kit, basically a bag with all this camera equipment. I usually have, like, a live shot backpack. And

Angela Tuell:

Right. I just ran my - You had to do live shots yourself too?

Nicole Edenedo:

I had to do live shots myself too.

Angela Tuell:

That's amazing.

Nicole Edenedo:

A little backpack and a button, and you push, you, plug your your camera stuff in, and there you go.

Angela Tuell:

Somehow, I started at MDT when we didn't have to do that. I'm older than you, I'm sure. But we, I did not have to do the one man band thing there.

Nicole Edenedo:

You probably had a photographer, yeah?

Angela Tuell:

Right - yes.

Nicole Edenedo:

Yeah. I never, it's funny, in my entire, in my entire TV career, I actually never had a photographer. I not like one -

Angela Tuell:

Dedicated to you or like - Yep.

Nicole Edenedo:

Assigned to me, yeah. So but, but I'm so thankful for that experience, because, as an MMJ, you know, I I wrote my own scripts, all of that stuff, and shot my own stories. I came up with my own stories, pitched them, so, produced them. I shot my own stories, edited my own stories on software like, you know, Adobe Premiere Vegas and things like that. and then ran my own live shots as well. And so but, but just having to, you know, the way that you have to write for TV, and you know you have to write for 90 seconds basically.

Angela Tuell:

Yes.

Nicole Edenedo:

And maybe two minutes tops. And you know you with the with the precision, the conciseness that you have to write in TV, but also still being very informative.

Angela Tuell:

Right.

Nicole Edenedo:

I mean, has really been that training has been such a blessing in my work that I do for print because, I mean, it really allowed me to just hit the ground running

Angela Tuell:

Yeah, gone hand in hand. So at Travel Weekly, you here. have a very specific niche, right? Tours and river cruises. Tell us a little bit more about your beat and the stories you tend to focus on.

Nicole Edenedo:

Yeah, um, the great thing, you know, with Travel Weekly that I love, I mean, I mean, it's funny. And my managers, the people who have been here for like, 20, 30 years, they have, you know, they all, they, they sometimes talk about, like the old days when Travel Weekly was like a staff of like 50 people, 50 editors and writers and all these different levels of management and this huge, big, well-oiled machine with, you know, an issue that was like this thick.

Angela Tuell:

Yes.

Nicole Edenedo:

And, you know, and now it's, I mean, things have changed. Know, now, in 2024, I mean, we're, we're a team of five editors, five senior editors, myself included, senior editor, reporters, and then, and we're the ones really, you know, putting a lot, you know, filling the pages there. So it's a, it's a, it's a small team. And the nice thing that I like is that we, we have our main beats, and then we also have our side beats, or sub beats. So yeah, so I'm tours and river cruises, so I cover the tour operator industries and the river cruise industries, and that's great. And I also, as my sub beats, I cover trains, train travel, oh, and sports tourism. Oh, okay, yeah, sports tourism, which is fun. So, but for the for the tour operators beat and wholesale suppliers as well. So I guess that falls more under tour operators. But basically that, you know, our audience at Travel Weekly, our main audience, are travel advisors, right? So, I mean, everybody, you know, we're a B to B publication. We're a trade publication, you know. So we're really made and tailored for the industry, for the business of buying and selling travel and all that in and around it. But travel advisors are travel advisors are our main audience. But really, you know any, anybody you know, reads us. Suppliers read us. Consumers read us as well, across our stuff. So, so it's a mix, but that's our but that's our focus there. And mostly the people, the suppliers, any travel company you know that I'm out there working with or covering, they're usually they need to work with travel advisors and offer commissions.

Angela Tuell:

Right, right.

Nicole Edenedo:

So they have to work with the trade in some way. So that's kind of the big differentiator. Because there are, you know, some river cruise lines or tour operator companies out there that have pitched me, that have reached out to me, but I can't really use them or lean on them for a lot of support or, you know, or take up their offers because they, they, they don't work with travel advisors. I mean, you know, it's, it's like, you can't, you know, you can't go wrong.

Angela Tuell:

Yeah, you mentioned traveling a lot. How often are you traveling?

Nicole Edenedo:

I travel quite often this year. I've kind of, like, kind of slowed down a little bit. I haven't like, I get a lot of invitations to go to different things. And, you know, some of them are important things, like conferences that we definitely need to go. Some of them are important things like, you know, ship, new ship, launches, christenings, or some other kind of important thing.

Angela Tuell:

News, yeah.

Nicole Edenedo:

And then then, like, you know, the rest are kind of, you know, more like secondary just, you know, maybe fun things, something that could be interesting. And so those invitations. And then there are things that I might actually

Angela Tuell:

Wow. So since you hadn't traveled before, really also want to do. So this year, though, I think I slowed down on contributing things that I wanted to do. So let let more things come to me. So so my schedule has been a little bit calmer this year, which has been nice. But my first year, I traveled 11 months, 10 months out of the year, and then last year I traveled all 12 months. in your life, very much when you started traveling with this job, what have been some of your, you know, favorite places or places that surprised you?

Nicole Edenedo:

One of my favorite trips. I have a few favorite trips. One of them is, for sure, Peru. Peru was, was a really, really fun adventurous trip. I did that one last September with G adventures, they were hosting their first community Tourism Conference summit in Cusco.

Angela Tuell:

Yes, and we do, we do PR for Peru, for the country of Peru. Now you know.

Nicole Edenedo:

That's right, yes. So hey, shout out to Peru.

Angela Tuell:

Like, multi day, right? Yeah, yeah. No, they were, they were excellent, but yeah, so we,

Nicole Edenedo:

Yeah, molds a couple of days. And, you know, we did. I was out there with G adventures, and we were there for about a week. I actually extended my trip to about 10 there's no shower, and, you know,

Angela Tuell:

I don't like that part is my problem. days, so I could also tack on a few days with luxury tour operator, Alexander and Roberts. But that was just such a great,

Nicole Edenedo:

Yeah.

Angela Tuell:

But it's awesome.

Nicole Edenedo:

But it was beautiful. It was beautiful. I cool trip, because we did, like, a two day hike on the Huchuy Qusqo trail. It was my first ever, like, real hike. We camped mean, like we, you know, we had tents for dinner, and we had and - these lovely chefs that traveled with us, and amazing porters and people taking good, really, really good care of us. So, I mean, but it was amazing. We camped at this, this, this ancient Incan ruin, Citadel Huchuy Qosqo, that was the name of it. And then, you know, we took trains. We took the train to Machu Picchu. I mean, it was just, I mean, it was, it was an amazing, like, fever dream of an adventure travel trip. So it was really, really great and exciting. So that was one. I just did this year, earlier this year, a West Africa river cruise.

Angela Tuell:

Oh wow.

Nicole Edenedo:

Yeah, a river cruise in West Africa with Variety cruises. And that was amazing. It was between Dakar. It was, the river cruise was mostly in the Gambia, on the Gambia river. But you can but I we started in Dakar, in Senegal, and we spent a couple of days. We went, we we docked in a place in in Senegal, and saw a village, a cool village, and things there. And then we started, and then we went to Banjul, which is the capital of the Gambia, and then where the mouth of the river is. And then we sailed up river for several days. I mean, that was just, I mean, incredible. I mean, you know, a real, you know, Banjul again, is the capital of Gambia. So it's a big city. It's urban. You've got cars and motorbikes zipping around everywhere, and lots of big buildings, and then the farther you go up river, the more remote it gets.

Angela Tuell:

Okay.

Nicole Edenedo:

And, you know, and it's just amazing. It was just, it's just villages, you know, there's no roads, no like, paved things like that. It's, you know, people on carts, and using carts and horses as, that's the Uber.

Angela Tuell:

Yeah.

Nicole Edenedo:

So you see people on on their hitching a ride. And, I mean, it was just, it was just amazing. And it was really special too, because my father is Nigerian, so, and I've never been to Nigeria. I never been to that part of Africa, which I was like, selling, like, it's like, never been to real Africa, but it's still real Africa.

Angela Tuell:

Maybe less touristy a little bit.

Nicole Edenedo:

Yes, yes. Because I had only been on the Nile River for that. So that was I went on the Nile River with Viking in August last year. So that was my first time on the continent.

Angela Tuell:

Okay.

Nicole Edenedo:

So, but this was my first time, you know, in a part of Africa where I'm really seeing people like like me, and you know, that just reminds me of some of the pictures and things that my father would show me growing up. Like his village and things like that.

Angela Tuell:

That's so cool.

Nicole Edenedo:

So it was just, it was really special, and going with Variety was great. They're the only river cruise line operating on the Gambia River and doing a river cruise in this part of the world. So it's very, very, very unique, just super fun and cool. And they have, they built a school there as well, that for the for the community, for the kids there, and a well, and all these, these great things. And they're building a museum there as well that'll help extend the learning opportunities there. So it was just a really fun, enriching, historical, cultural and nature filled wild, wildlife filled experience. Not quite Safari, but Safari like. You know, you get Safari like experiences, you know, but you're not going there for like, you know, to see lions and -

Angela Tuell:

Right. What do you look for from hosted trip, you know? I know you mentioned the one about it obviously has to be something that tour advisors can book.

Nicole Edenedo:

Right.

Angela Tuell:

But besides that, what else do you look for?

Nicole Edenedo:

I guess, in terms of, because, I mean, really what it is a trip is for here at Travel Weekly. I mean, at least for my process here, it's, it's about, trips are kind of about, it's about getting approved. So for a trip to get approved, um, you know, we need that newsy element. We like that newsy element, that newsy quality, that, you know, a trip, can provide that timeliness. So, you know, for instance. So I think, like, you like, I mentioned, like, you know, Jordan and, you know, I mean, you can use that in some situations like Jordan or Egypt, you know. I mean, when, I guess, in the midst of the fallout of the, you know, Israel, Hamas war and everything, all that's affecting tourism, a lot, for sure, I mean, to for Israel, I mean, it's just kind of has been off limits for the most part.

Angela Tuell:

Right.

Nicole Edenedo:

But, you know, but it was, you know, it was safe to go to, you know, Egypt and Jordan and the regular tourism places that that people are normally traveling to, and that's what tour operators and the DMOS and everything were trying to get across. You know, the news element there for us is okay, yeah, let's go there and see if people, if tour operators, are still sending people there and it's safe, and there are people on the ground, if they're confident enough that it's safe, and the people on the ground are and people are still going there, even if there are rebookings. But they want to show people what it's like, yeah, what is it like on the ground? What are, how are, how is the destination or services being impacted at all? If, if at all.

Angela Tuell:

What is the best way for Peer Professionals to share these story ideas with you? Is email your favorite and any other tips?

Nicole Edenedo:

Um, email, email is always, is always great. I mean, you know, email, you can, if you find me on Instagram and you want to -

Angela Tuell:

Okay.

Nicole Edenedo:

There's something you saw, you see this meme, and it's like, you know, you have to, you have to DM me this and it right here, because otherwise the idea is going to go away or it won't make sense anymore. You know, that's fine, too. So I like that. I mean, I, you know, I often get, you know, invitations, if somebody wants to, you know, meet for coffee or lunch or a happy hour drink or something like that.

Angela Tuell:

Okay.

Nicole Edenedo:

You know, here in the city, I'm always available to do that. I've done that several times, and I've had nice meetings that way, and some great ideas. So that's also a nice way too. So I'm open for through email, through social media, through if you want to, if you want to meet me here in the city, New York.

Angela Tuell:

Awesome. Well, next time I'm in New York, I'm going to meet you, for sure, in person.

Nicole Edenedo:

Definitely.

Angela Tuell:

I have to ask before we go, because I could talk to you forever. But what are you currently working on, or any exciting projects on the horizon that you can talk about?

Nicole Edenedo:

I personally, I don't know, I'm toying around with some ideas about over tourism and looking at some bigger ideas there, and how can we kind of, you know, push the narrative forward and maybe do a bigger, a bigger, wider piece. But I'm kind of, I'm kind of, I'm kind of open, you know, we're, we're looking for cover stories right now, folks. So you know, if you've got some some ideas, some suggestions, some some big picture issues or things that you think the travel industry needs to focus in on.

Angela Tuell:

Awesome, we will send them your way, and we'll make sure to have links to your Instagram and different ways to contact you in our show notes.

Nicole Edenedo:

Yes, definitely you can follow me on Instagram. I'm, you know, @Nicole E. It's like Nicole with an extra e underscore TV.

Angela Tuell:

Awesome. Thank you so much for your time, Nicole.

Nicole Edenedo:

Thank you so much, Angela. I really appreciate it. Thanks for having me on here.

Angela Tuell:

That's all for this episode of Media in Minutes, a podcast by Communications Redefined. Please take a moment to rate, review and subscribe to our show. We'd love to hear what you think. You can find more at CommunicationsRedefined.com/podcast. I'm your host, Angela Tuell. Talk to you next time.