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 2009 Guild Awards Dinner
Buy whole tables, or tickets for individual places at the BGTW's annual Gala Awards, held this year at the Marriott Grosvenor Square on November 8, the eve of World Travel Market.
The BGTW Awards Dinner, sponsored this year by Antigua Tourist Board, Elite Island Resorts and Virgin Holidays, is generally acknowledged as the networking event of the year and is a superb opportunity to host journalists or industry colleagues at a glamorous, black tie event.
Tickets cost £150 plus VAT. Buy a table for 10, 11 or 12, or as many individual tickets as you like. The price includes a Champagne reception and three course dinner with wine, coffee and petits fours, followed by the Guild's awards. The evening starts at 6pm and finishes at 11pm, after which there is a cash bar until 1am.
For queries regarding tickets, contact the Guild secretariat:
T. 020 8144 8713
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Rudolf Abraham
Rudolf Abraham is an award-winning travel writer and photographer whose love of travel and remote places has taken him from the Balkans to eastern Turkey, Central Asia and Patagonia. He has written or contributed to numberous books, guidebooks and articles on these areas - their mountains, landscape, history and architecture.
He first visited Croatia in 1998, and lived in Zagreb from 1999 to 2001, working as an English teacher. Since then he has continued to visit the...
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"Caramel and raspberry red, it sits by the road surrounded by the detritus of local civilisation: burst tyres, perished fan-belts and empty port-a-gas cylinders...To nomads it is the supermarket of the Sahara. Among items stacked behind its counter are ... boxes of Gunpowder tea, candles, packets of `Tide`… and tins of sardines. Fresh fish arrives daily from Boujdour so that even in this God-forsaken place you can sit down at a broken table for lunch. A lame fish-eating chicken hops about after scraps. No one would eat it, I decided, it was much too horrible."
Christine Osborne, on the Café Lemsid in the Western Sahara from the Independent Travellers Guide Morocco.
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