Raffle raises £5000 for Joliba Trust
With such a mouthwatering array of prizes up for grabs it’s small wonder that guests and BGTW members stumped up a total of £5000 for this year’s gala awards dinner…
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Award for Peter Ellegard
Guild member Peter Ellegard has won the Best Travel Trade Feature category in the 2017 Caribbean Tourism Organisation Awards – for the second time in three years. His winning article…
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Top Tourism Awards for Devon, Denmark and Ecuador
The British Guild of Travel Writers’ annual tourism awards were announced last night on the eve of World Travel Market. The new Dartmoor Artisan Trail in Devon, England won in…
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Aaron Millar named BGTW Travel Writer of the Year
Seven others receive top awards at the Gala Savoy Dinner Aaron Millar, who divides his time between the UK and Colorado, was named the British Guild of Travel Writers’ Travel…
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Drums, dancers and a BGTW dinner to savour
Sri Lankan drummers and dancers and a candle lighting ceremony greeted over 300 guests and members at the BGTW’s glittering annual Awards Dinner at London’s Savoy Hotel on the eve…
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Marco Polo’s Favourite Island
Where better to take a holiday than Sri Lanka, where the locals are experts? The people of this tiny Ireland-sized island in the Indian Ocean enjoy a world-record 26 public…
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Tomb of the unknown relative
As ceremonies to mark the centenary of the Great War continued, veteran Guild member John Ruler found a corner of a foreign field that revealed a distant family connection….. Two…
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Members’ awards success
Two Guild members won recognition in this year’s AITO (Association of Independent Tour Operators) travel writing awards competition. For his feature about “the extraordinary female free divers of South Korea” published…
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Images of Autumn
Each month, the British Guild of Travel Writers collates a selection of seasonal images taken by Guild members. Here is our…
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Members’ News: Autumn 2017
ISSUED BY THE BRITISH GUILD OF TRAVEL WRITERS Issue No.56; October 2017 CHAIRMAN’S MESSAGE Here we are with the latest news on what our members are up to… besides dreaming…
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Bistrot + boules = bonheur
Lis Gerard-Sharp finds the perfect equation for contentment in a Provencal village where not a lot goes on… Travel writers tend to be in thrall to the coolest, hippest, weirdest…
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Monarch – the fall out
The collapse of Monarch Airlines has yet again thrown a spotlight on the disparity of protection between package holidaymakers and those who just buy scheduled airline tickets, writes Roger Bray…
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Africa hand turns gaze on Britain
Brian Jackman’s golden prose has long created vivid images of the African bush. But h describes as his new book is a love letter to the British countryside – and…
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Travel photography show hosts summer party
By Gillian Thornton. It was a welcome return in August to Greenwich for our Summer Party which this year took place in the spacious surroundings of the Stockwell Street Gallery…
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Yearbook light launched in style – 2017
With the generous support of ANTOR (the London based Association of Tourist Offices), the Guild has launched its new directory of members, dubbed “Yearbook Light”. As its description suggests, this…
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Guild’s US awards triumph – 2017
A night of triumph for Guild members at the Visit USA Association’s Media Awards event at London’s St Ermin’s Hotel. Neil Murray was named Travel Writer of the Year for…
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Brian Jackman honoured – ATTA 2017
Long standing Guild member Brian Jackman has been recognized for his outstanding contribution to the understanding of African tourism. He is one of three members to receive awards from the…
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Members’ News: Spring 2017
ISSUED BY THE BRITISH GUILD OF TRAVEL WRITERS Issue No.55; May 2017 CHAIRMAN’S MESSAGE It’s an interesting time for commissioning editors and travel writers alike. There has always been…
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A knights’ trail in the Aube
The French department of Aube is rich in the history of the Knights Templar, Simon Willmore followed their trail… The first master of the Knights Templar, Hugues de Payns, was born…
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Grapes and Golf
A South African style wine experience is planned in West Sussex. Peter Jolly investigates………… Some of the finest wine estates in the world are to be found around Cape Town…
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Pigs in court
Isabel Conway hears tales of the unexpected – and downright bizarre – on an arts and crafts tour of Chateauvillain in southern Champagne Bobbins at the 17th century watermill and…
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