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...

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...

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,...

BRITISH GUILD OF TRAVEL WRITERS MEMBERS WIN SEVEN TOP AWARDS Seven members of the British Guild of Travel Writers have won top travel writing awards for recent articles and a book on destinations as varied as the USA, Tenerife, Brazil and Peru. Martin Symington and Roger St Pierre received awards in London on 7 July from the UK's Visit USA Association. Martin was consumer press winner for his Wanderlust article on travelling across America on Amtrak train and Roger was highly commended for a feature in Selling Long Haul on Where the West Was Won. Mary Moore Mason, editor of the UK's Essentially...

Tenerife Tourism sponsored generous prizes for the best articles written by members following the Guild’s AGM visit to Tenerife in 2009. Here Adele Evans won the award for the best article, Agatha Christie and the Dragon Tree. Here she explains: Lord Nelson gave up his right arm here, many a holidaymaker has become temporarily ‘legless’ here too, but the British love affair with this island is still in one piece and has a long pedigree.. What I didn’t know was that it also had inspired Agatha Christie to pen one of her short stories, ‘The Mysterious Mr Quin’ and a festival...