The UK’s top travel writers name their tourism champions

The verdict will soon be out from Britain’s top travel writers...

London, 01 November 2010 – Excitement is growing about the announcement of the winners of the British Guild of Travel Writers’ Annual New Tourism Projects Awards which will be announced before an audience of top travel media professionals and high-profile representatives of the international travel world at London’s landmark Savoy Hotel during the British Guild of Travel Writers’ 50th Anniversary Gala Awards Dinner on November 7, on the eve of the World Travel Market.

Nine of the world's newest tourism projects have been shortlisted for Britain’s most prestigious tourism awards following nominations from its members.

The British Guild of Travel Writers (BGTW, established 1960) is the premier professional association for bonafide journalists, editors, photographers, and radio and film broadcasters working in the travel field from Britain. This year it is celebrating its 50th anniversary.
 

Industry roll of honour

The Guild’s awards – presented for the most successful and innovative tourism projects – are highly coveted.

Three projects are in the running for the Globe category (more than 250,000 visitors a year). They are: the New Acropolis Museum, Athens – Greece’s highly modern landmark museum that opened in 2009; the newly renovated Ulster Museum, Northern Island’s busiest visitor attraction; and Siam Park, Tenerife’s spectacular waterpark that opened in 2008.

In the Overseas Tourism Project category, competition is set to be fierce. The contenders are Haida Heritage Centre, British Columbia, celebrating rare tribal culture; Bluff Cove Museum, Falklands, a living museum about the pioneering life of the Islanders; and Ocean Dreams Factory, Tenerife, which, uniquely, enables visitors over 12 to dive in tandem with an instructor.

In the UK Tourism Project category, the three contenders are: The Galleries of Modern London, £20 million redevelopment telling the story of London; Blist's Hill Victorian Town, a recreated Victorian town at Ironbridge Gorge in Shropshire; and the re-launched Jewish Museum in London which celebrates Jewish life and its cultural diversity.

Bringing the travel world together

The BGTW 50th Anniversary Gala Awards Dinner, at the newly re-opened Savoy Hotel, London, is sponsored by Belgian Tourist Office – Brussels and Wallonia – and is attended by the UK’s top travel media professionals as well as influential menbers of the international travel world, including tourism boards, tour companies, travel PRs, tour and transport operators, and many other organisations operating in the global tourism industry.

Celebrating journalistic excellence

The event is also the UK’s premier occasion for the travel industry to recognise excellence and achievement in travel writing, photography and broadcasting. The awards are sponsored by the industry and include a range of travel-related journalism awards.

Further info: Sarah Monaghan, BGTW Press & PR Co-ordinator
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