About KITI
A network for the people who make travel media purr.
KITI is a professional membership network for the people who make and move travel, hospitality and lifestyle media professionals: journalists, editors, freelancers, PR professionals, and the brands and destinations they cover.
Everyone here is verified. That's the whole point. No public feed, no cold lists, no guessing whether the person pitching you is who they say they are. This is a working space where editorial collaboration happens between people who've been checked.
Members get a profile they control, a directory of verified organizations, an assignment desk of open calls and press trips, and tools like byline sync and saved-search alerts that do the listening for them. Brands and destination marketing organizations get a verified company profile, a way to post opportunities and news to the right audience, and a console to manage their team and outreach.
Twenty-five years of this!
KITI began in 2001 as Media Kitty, which grew to 20,000+ verified travel and hospitality media professionals and won an HSMAI Gold Award. The network is back, rebuilt for how media works now. Same principle, better tools.
Who's behind it?
KITI is founded and run by Heather Kirk, who launched Media Kitty in 2001 and has spent years in travel and hospitality communications: Four Seasons, British Airways, Rocky Mountaineer, Air New Zealand, Destination Canada, Tourism Toronto, and the opening of Vancouver International Airport's new terminal. She has worked both sides of the pitch, which is why KITI is built the way it is.