Accounts in Transit: CIIC PR Picks Up NUBA Travel,
Fri., May 8, 2026
By Steve Barnes
CIIC PR picks up PR duties for NUBA Travel, a luxury travel design company specializing in curated journeys around the world... Magrino PR gains AOR status for M Social New York Downtown, a hotel that opened in Lower Manhattan... RG2 Communications checks in at Hotel Milu Florence.

The New York State Department of Economic Development is looking to hire a travel and tourism representative in the UK.
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Infinite, a communications and reputation management firm, has acquired Dukas Linden Public Relations, which represents some of the most prestigious financial institutions in the U.S.
MikeWorldWide acquires HudsonLake, a strategic communications firm specializing in organizational change, employee experience and workforce communications.
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Brunswick Group has announced that Teneo's Christian Buss and Netflix's Paul Shaw have joined the firm as partners in San Francisco.
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