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Penguin-WH Smith deal is a stitch-up says travel author |
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Oh, come off it. Don’t insult our intelligence. What Smiths are really saying is “Hey, thickheads, you’ll buy what we tell you to and like it, capeesh?”
Award-winning broadcaster, author and BGTW member, Charlie Connelly, claims the Penguin-WHS deal is a "stitch-up" in his latest blog posting.
Connelly, who is well-known for his humerous narrative travel books Attention all shipping and And did those feet: Walking through the history of Britain & Ireland(serialised recently as BBC R4's Book of the Week), says the deal is important on many levels...
"The contempt it shows for the intelligence of the book-buying public, the naked greed that underpins the whole escapade and the assault on consumer choice that it imposes, in an area whose breadth and expertise is as wonderful as it is necessary. Guidebooks are intelligent, targeted commodities written by intelligent, expert people aimed at intelligent, discerning people wishing to make an informed choice to suit their needs, just as much as in any other area of publishing or walk of life." |
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Six BGTW members lift awards
SIX BRITISH GUILD OF TRAVEL MEMBERS WIN AWARDS IN ONE MONTH
And a seventh has her work launched in a new Channel 5 Travel Programme
Six British Guild of Travel Writers members have recently won a variety of top travel writing and tourism awards from Estonia, Malta, the cruise industry and a freelance recruiting company. And a seventh has had her books adapted for a new Channel 5 travel programme.
Londoner Neil Taylor was presented with the Estonian President's Medal on 13 March for his outstanding work as the author of six editions of the Bradt...
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Nord Pas De Calais tourism initiatives
France's Nord Pas de Calais region depends on British visitors to boost touristm initiatives during London's Olympic year
The Nord P as de Calais region of France is depending on visitors from the United Kingdom for the success of four major tourist initiatives in 2012, members of the British Guild of Travel Writers (BGTW) were told at their recent annual general meeting in Boulogne-sur-Mer.
Although the number of visits from Britain, which traditionally outstrips that from elsewhere, has dropped 30 per cent in the last three years - largely due to weak sterling - it is expected to revive considerably in 2012....
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BGTW members lift awards
CONGRATULATIONS TO AWARD-WINNING GUILD MEMBERS
BGTW members have won a clutch of top travel, online and broadcasting awards. At the 28 November British Travel Press Awards ceremony Judith Chalmers, OBE, was cited for her Outstanding Contribution to travel media and William Gray was named as co-winner of the top Consumer Travel Feature.
When citing Chalmers, presenter of Thames TV's Wish You Were Here...? travel programme for 30 years, the judges for the Kingsley Event Management-sponsored event, said: “This award recognises individuals who have achieved the utmost excellence in their contributions as travel writers, photographers or broadcasters.”
At its 29 November awards lunch...
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BGTW Tourism Awards winners 2011
MARGATE'S NEW TURNER CONTEMPORARY MUSEUM WINS THE BRITISH GUILD OF TRAVEL WRITERS' TOP TOURISM AWARD
The British Guild of Travel Writers has presented its top 2011 Globe Award for an outstanding tourism project to the new Turner Contemporary Museum in Margate, Kent, and its Lifetime Achievement Award to Tricia Barnett, director of the charity Tourism Concern.
Both awards, plus a number of other tourism and media awards, were presented before an audience of more than 300 top travel industry and media leaders at a gala dinner held last night (Sunday, 6 November) at London's elegant Savoy Hotel.
The Dinner...
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BGTW Members' Awards winners 2011
BGTW ANNOUNCES BRITAIN'S TOP TRAVEL WRITERS PHOTOGRAPHERS 2011
7 November 2011
Britain's leading travel writers and photographers have been singled out at the British Guild of Travel Writers’ 51st Anniversary Gala Awards Dinner in London.
The event is the UK’s premier occasion for the travel industry to recognise excellence and achievement in travel writing, and photography. The awards are sponsored by the travel industry.
The results were announced at a ceremony held at The Savoy, (Nov 6), on the eve of the World Travel Market.
The dinner was attended by over 300 guests including ministers of tourism from countries all over the world,...
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‘Beautiful madam, beautiful. Breathe deeply and relax,’ says the instructor in a soothing singsong as I try to re-arrange myself into the lotus position. I am the first guest for the dawn yoga class in the newly opened Taj Mount Road in Chennai. From the hotel’s rooftop gym, the capital of Tamil Nadu, stretches out illuminated by a coral-red sun. At the end of the class I am so relaxed, I float back to my room. This latest addition to India’s premier hotel chain is chic rather than Kipling, contemporary instead of classical.
Claire Scobie Hip Addition to the New India Sun-Herald, 16 April 2009
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