FOCUS: TRAVEL PR - Expiry of passports to column inches/Even at the most luxurious end of the travel spectrum, the days of freeloading travel journalists are long gone. Henry Sutton reports

The Wednesday Club meets once a month in, say, the Regents Plaza, or Claridge’s, or, even, the Conde Nast boardroom. Some 100 people usually turn out - PR people like Victoria Fuller, managing director of ZFL, Elizabeth Martin, PR manager at Leading Hotels of the World and Wolfgang Winter, group press and PR director at the Savoy Group. There’s a smattering of journalists, too - maybe Sue Ward Davies from Elle, Catherine Fairweather from Harpers and Queen and Philip Watson from GQ, but they’re mostly freelancers like Paddy Burt, Nigel Tisdall, or David Churchill.