Media Visits

There is only one way to truly capture the essence of a destination and that is to visit it. We encourage members of the media to embark on their own discovery journey through a media visit of Greater Phoenix. 

Visit Phoenix offers individual media tours for members of the media and group tours for media who are interested in traveling together. Our communications team at Visit Phoenix has moved away from group media tours post-pandemic due to individual press trips being the most common media preference. If you are interested in an individual or group press trip with Visit Phoenix, please review the guidelines below and email Director of Communications, Sarah Doyle, at sdoyle@visitphoenix.com.

Guidelines

When inquiring about a media visit, please include links to your most recently published articles (published clips should include byline and date) and/or an assignment letter from your editor. To best serve you, we ask that the following guidelines be followed when requesting a media visit: 

• Email Director of Communications, Sarah Doyle, at sdoyle@visitphoenix.com. 

• Contact Visit Phoenix at least eight weeks in advance for media tour consideration.

• Consider scheduling your individual tour to take place before or after peak season (February-May).

• Please note that we receive a high volume of media requests. We try to assist in all cases, but priority for media visits will be given to media working with our target publications and audiences. While we love working with journalists and editors on qualified, confirmed assignments, we understand that this is not always the case, especially for freelance writers. Depending on the season, we are open to accepting journalists and editors on research and development trips, if the story angle and potential publications are a fit. 

• For bloggers and/or content creators, please contact Media Relations Manager, Emma Sounart, at esounart@visitphoenix.com to inquire about a media visit. Our guidelines for content creator partnerships are as follows: represent a quality website with a focus on travel and/or food and beverage that targets our key audiences, demonstrate a healthy and engaged audience with an active presence on Instagram, and agree to contracted deliverables based on what both parties decide to be mutually beneficial for a partnership. Please note we do not accept content creator partnerships during our peak season.