The Travel Media Awards Step Up scheme is an internship designed to drive diversity and inclusion in travel media for young people. It offers FIVE 18–30-year-olds from underrepresented backgrounds the opportunity to gain experience and mentorship in journalism, publishing and public relations.

The scheme is offering FIVE successful candidates the chance to undertake invaluable work placement with 10 leading travel media companies, each undertaking a four-week travel journalism placement followed by a four-week travel PR placement.

Successful candidates will each work with two of the below partner companies, which have been paired as follows:

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

Step Up interns will also receive a further six months of mentoring, as well as join us at this year’s Travel Media Awards in autumn 2026, with promising careers ahead of them in travel media, be that consumer, trade, or PR.

Eligibility Criteria

The Step Up programme is open to anyone aged 18-30 who can demonstrate a passion for travel media and identifies as coming from an underrepresented demographic, such as individuals from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds, people with disabilities and those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. Applicants must be UK residents.

Interns will be paid the London Living Wage for the eight weeks of work.

How To Apply

Applications must be submitted via the website portal by Monday, January 26 at 23.59pm. Please mention Journo Resources when you apply; it really helps us out.

Any questions? Please read our FAQs. Any further questions can be directed to stepup@travelmediaawards.com