Awards

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Guild Awards

 

Each year, the Guild gives out its own awards at a gala dinner on the eve of World Travel Market.

There are two sets of awards. Those for the travel trade are sponsored and judged by the Guild, those recognising the journalistic work of members are sponsored and judged by the trade.

Tourism Awards

  • Best Overseas Tourism Project is given for the best new (less than2-yrs old) overseas tourism project which not only has a tourist potential but is of benefit to the local community and environment.
  • Best UK Tourism Project is awarded for the best new (less than 2-yrs old) tourism project in the UK, which likewise has tourist potential but also benefits the local community and environment.
  • The Globe Award, inaugurated in 2001, is given to a major new (less than 2-yrs old) tourism project worldwide, with projected visitor numbers of over 250,000 per year. Like the other awards, it should combine responsible tourism development with local economic, environmental and community benefits.
  • The Lifetime Achievement Award goes to an individual for long-term contributions to the travel industry. This award is judged by the committee from nominations made by Guild members.

Overseas Tourism Award
UK Tourism Award

 

Members' Awards

The Guild also awards the work of its own members. The categories are as follows:

Writing

  • Best Short Destination feature (under 850 words).
  • Best UK feature (over 850 words).
  • Best European (non-UK) feature (over 850 words).
  • Best Overseas (non-European) feature (over 850 words).
  • Best Trade/Business feature.
  • Kenneth Westcott Jones Memorial Award for the Best Transport Feature.
  • Best Guidebook Writers Award.
  • Best Narrative Travel Book.
  • Cancun/BGTW Travel Writer of the Year Award (4-8 pieces of work totalling 4000 - 6000 words). Sponsored by Cancun Tourism.

Radio

  • Ed Lacy Memorial Award for Best Radio Feature.

Photography

  • Photograph of the Year Award.

Television

  • Anne Gregg Memorial Award for Best Television Travel Feature.

Details of the 2007 Award Winners can be found under the Members' Awards and Tourism Awards pages. Many congratulations to all our members.
 
Stanley Slaughter

Click for full storyNews reporter on regional and national newspaper for many years. Feature and travel writer and then features and travel editor of the Birmingham Post. Freelance travel writer since 1992.
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"In 1992 I was invited to join the inaugural flight of Richard Branson's Vintage Airways, an airline operating holiday flights from Orlando to Key West using two restored Douglas DC3 aircraft offering 1940's style service, livery, uniforms and experience—one of their signature moments was the excited announcement from the flight deck that they had just heard on the radio, news of the Japanese surrender in the Pacific. I remember the thing that surprised me most—besides Japan tenaciously holding on for another 50 years—was having to walk steeply uphill to my seat."

Alastair McKenzie, 'What's Changed In 60 years of Civil Aviation?', The Director, Oct 07

 
 

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