Each year, the British Guild of Travel Writers organises two prestigious awards schemes: the BGTW International Tourism Awards and the BGTW Members’ Excellence Awards.
About the BGTW Awards
Launched over 40 years ago the BGTW International Tourism Awards scheme recognises excellence in tourism projects. There are three categories:
- Best UK and Ireland Tourism Project
- Best Europe Tourism Project
- Best Wider World Tourism Project
The BGTW Members’ Excellence Awards recognise the best in travel writing, photography, blogging and broadcasting. For 2023, there are 16 categories, 12 categories for individual pieces of work, and four requiring a portfolio of four pieces of work:
- Travel Feature of the Year – UK
- Travel Feature of the Year – Europe
- Travel Feature of the Year – Wider World
- Travel Feature of the Year – regional, specialist and trade media
- Sustainability Feature of the Year – NEW
- Specialist Travel Feature of the Year – The Bryn Frank Award
- Transport Feature of the Year – The Kenneth Westcott-Jones Award
- Travel Guide Book of the Year
- Travel Narrative Book of the Year – The Adele Evans Award
- Travel Photo Feature of the Year
- Travel Blog Post of the Year
- Travel Broadcast of the Year
- BGTW Travel Blogger of the Year
- BGTW Travel Broadcaster of the Year
- BGTW Photographer of the Year
- BGTW Travel Writer of the Year
- BGTW Award for Outstanding Contribution to Travel Journalism – The Dr Melissa Shales Award
The winners will be announced at the BGTW Annual Awards Gala to be held in central London on Sunday evening, 5 November 2023.
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