The Travel Media Awards Step Up internship is designed to give you meaningful, hands-on experience in travel media. Over eight weeks, you’ll contribute to real projects, while working alongside industry professionals and learning how travel stories, campaigns and content come to life.

Each intern spends four weeks with two different partner organisations, offering exposure to both editorial, PR and marketing environments. This is a rare opportunity to explore different roles, build a broad skill set and gain a clearer sense of where your interests lie.

Below, you’ll find an overview of the partner companies involved in Step Up 2026 and the type of work interns will be involved in during their placements.

APL Media

An award-winning content agency and the publishing house behind National Geographic Traveller (UK), Living360 and more. Interns gain hands-on experience in editorial, digital content and storytelling for some of the UK’s most respected travel brands.

easyJet holidays

As one of the UK’s fastest-growing tour operators, interns will get an inside look at travel products, marketing tools and communications techniques. They will support campaigns that connect destinations with customers and learn how a major travel brand tells its story across multiple platforms.

FINN Partners

A global PR and integrated marketing agency with a strong travel portfolio and a reputation for storytelling that shapes the industry. Interns will experience a deep dive into media relations, working with clients across the travel sector and learning how strategic communications shape brand reputation and audience engagement.

Intrepid Travel

One of the world’s largest certified B Corp adventure travel companies, giving insight into responsible tourism communications. Interning with Intrepid means learning about the organisation behind group travel experiences, with a focus on sustainability and how purpose-led brands connect with audiences worldwide.

Kuoni

This premium travel brand is known for expertise, editorial partnerships and powerful consumer storytelling. Working across content, PR and marketing, interns will see first-hand how destinations are brought to life and how a trusted travel brand engages consumers through editorial partnerships and campaigns.

Metro

One of the UK’s most-read newspapers with a fast-paced digital and print newsroom environment offers interns the opportunity to support editorial teams with content research, writing and digital production. They will also learn how stories are shaped for a national audience.

TTG Media

An influential trade media brand offering a close-up look at the business side of travel. Interns gain experience in trade journalism and industry reporting, learning how the travel industry is covered and communicated to a specialist audience.

The Sun

Britain’s biggest-selling newspaper provides interns with real experience inside a major national newsroom. Interns will get experience in the field, finding stories, working on travel and lifestyle content. Interns will learn how stories are pitched, written and published to gain insight into working at pace in a major media organisation.

Virgin Atlantic

A global airline brand with high-profile communications, marketing and social media teams. Interning here means supporting projects that showcase destinations and experiences and learning how a globally recognised travel brand engages audiences with its customer-first approach.

By the end of the programme, TMA Step Up interns leave with far more than a line on their CV. They will have contributed to published content, supported live campaigns, worked to real deadlines and developed practical skills that are directly relevant to roles in travel media, publishing, PR and marketing. What’s more, TMA Step Up interns will gain confidence in a professional environment and experience that will shape their next career move.

If you’re curious about travel media and keen to gain real, paid experience with leading organisations, Step Up is the opportunity you’ve been looking for.

Applications close at 23:59 on Monday 26 January 2026.

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