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IMPORTANT NEW TROPHIES CREATED FOR THE BRITISH GUILD OF TRAVEL WRITERS' ANNUAL AWARDS
PRESS RELEASE London, 6 October 2003
 "I have always been fascinated by maps and love travelling myself".
Alison Counsell, a lecturer in Metalwork and Jewellery at Sheffield Hallam University, chosen from a shortlist of five from the Crafts Council Index to design the new British Guild of Travel Writers' Awards Trophies, took maps and contour lines as the starting points for the design of two beautiful new trophies: the BGTW Best New UK Tourism Award, and the BGTW Best New Overseas Tourism Award, replacing the former trophies, the Silver Otter and Silver Unicorn Award trophies.
The BGTW has been giving out important awards for best tourism projects since 1978. From 1978 to 1992 it was for the Best New Overseas Tourism Project with tourist potential that also gave significant benefit to the local community. In 1992 a second award was inaugurated for the Best New Tourism Project in the UK, using the same criteria. In 2001 the Guild introduced a third, the Globe Award, for the Best Major Tourism Project Worldwide, attracting over 250,000 visitors a year (see separate list for some of the past winners). The Awards remain the same; the names of two of the awards, however, and the trophies are new.
The new trophies, which will be unveiled at the annual BGTW Awards dinner, this year at The Savoy on 9 Nov, are works of art in their own right. The two trophies share common design features: made of stainless steel, they both incorporate two 'floating' sheets, peeling away from each other to reveal a further layer. The awards are each mounted on a plinth made of 'Hopton Wood', a beautiful Derbyshire stone.
Alison Counsell has designed for international exhibitions, commissions and retail since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1987. She has work in the public collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, Shipley Art Gallery and the Yorkshire Craft Centre. Alison's innovative stainless steel vessels and church ware have received commendations in the Open for New Stainless Steel Ideas 2000 competition (Meri-Lappi Institute, Finland - two prizes) and she was shortlisted for the Peugeot Design Awards in 1999.
Many more pictures of both awards are available. Please credit Jeremy Hoare, BGTW member.
For more information: www.travelwriters.com/jeremyhoare
For further information and for images, please contact:
Mary Anne Evans
BGTW, T: 0778 6081 274
020-7242 5222
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For general information on the BGTW:
BGTW Secretariat
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Web: www.bgtw.org
NOTES FOR EDITORS:
The finalists for this year's Tourism awards are:
BGTW Best New UK Tourism Project:
British & Empire Commonwealth Museum, Bristol
Hadrian's Wall Path
Winter Garden and Millennium Galleries, Sheffield
BGTW Best New Overseas Tourism Project:
Elephant Mobile Clinic, Phuket, Thailand
Teatro Cervantes, Spain
The Tuatapere Humpridge Trail, New Zealand
Globe Award for Best New Major Tourism Project Worldwide:
Cité de la Mer, Cherbourg, France
Graz, European City of Culture 2003, Austria
Past winners:
Best New UK Tourism Project - Winners since 1992
1992: Jersey Museum
1993: Manchester's Olympic bid
1994: Eden Camp (Second World War Museum), North Yorkshire
1995: Trans-Atlantic Slavery Gallery at the Merseyside Maritime Museum
1996: Jersey (for creating 'Green Lanes' network)
1997: American Air Museum, Duxford
1998: The Kingfisher cycle Trail
1999: The Earth Centre, Doncaster
2000: The Wetlands, London
2001: Welsh Highland Railway
2002: Falkirk
Best New Overseas Tourism Project - Winners since 1992
1992 France: Futuroscope at Poitiers
1993: USA: Greater Los Angeles Metropolitan Transport System
1994: Zambia: Game lodges and upgrading of camps
1995: Sultanate of Oman
1996: Kenya: Kimana wildlife Sanctuary
1997: Croatia: Restoration of Dubrovnik
1998: Belgium: In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres
1999: Madagascar: Andohahela National Park
2000: Zambia: Kawaza Village
2001: India: Sher Bagh, Ranthambhore, Rajasthan
2002: Germany: Nuremberg Documentation Centre
Globe Award - Winners since 2001
2001: The Eden Project
2002 Balearic Islands' Eco-Tax
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