The winners of the BGTW Members’ Awards 2007

The winners were announced last night at the BGTW’s annual gala dinner held at the Savoy Hotel in London on the eve of World Travel Market. This year, the event was sponsored by Air Malta, Malta Tourism Authority and the Hotel Fortina Spa Resort.

Best destination feature under 850 words
Sponsored by TravMedia.com
Norman Miller: Letter from Hawaii, Bee Woman, Fall 2006.

Best UK Feature over 850 Words
Sponsored by Superbreak
Jeremy Seal: Call This a Tent? Sunday Telegraph, 6 May 2007

Best European Feature (non-UK) over 850 words
Sponsored by the Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau
Lisa Gerard Sharp: Mind your Language, Italia! July 2007

Best overseas (non-European) feature over 850 words
Sponsored by Grenada Board of Tourism
William Gray: Going Bush, Wanderlust, November 2006

Best trade/business feature
Sponsored by Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau
Sarah Monaghan: The Future’s Green, Gabon Magazine, September 2006

The Kenneth Westcott Jones Memorial Award for Best Transport feature
Sponsored by Virgin Trains
Sarah Woods : Busman’s Holiday, Holiday, September 2006.

Best Guidebook Award
Sponsored by First Public Relations
David Atkinson: Bolivia, Bradt Guides.

Best Narrative Travel Book
Sponsored by KBC Public Relations and Marketing Ltd
Joe Cawley: More Ketchup than Salsa, Summersdale.

The Ed Lacy Memorial Award for Best Radio Feature
Sponsored by First Public Relations
Polly Rodger Brown: Dominoes Goes Home, BBC Radio 4, 8 June 2007

Photograph of the Year Award
Sponsored by Jersey Tourism
Karoki Lewis: Garlanded Naga Sadhu, Sunday Times Travel Magazine, February 2007.

Anne Gregg Memorial Award for Best Television Feature of the Year
Sponsored by Oman Ministry of Tourism
Jeremy Head: Holidays Undercover, Lloret de Mar, ITV, August 2006.

BGTW TRAVEL WRITER OF THE YEAR – FOR MAJOR CONTIBUTION TO CONSUMER TRAVEL WRITING
Sponsored by the Cancun Visitors and Convention Bureau
WINNER: Jack Barker: for articles in the Independent and Independent on Sunday with destinations from the Mekong to Liberty Island.
RUNNER-UP: Donna Dailey: for features in Holiday, suite101.con, Travel Weekly and Real Holidays including an articles on Denver’s hippiest store and the Camargue.