Geoff Moore – a blogging virgin – reports on the changing face of travel media: My blogging baptism took place…
Neil Taylor reports on the Guild’s March social evening: Staying in a pub seems such an obvious thing to do…
Lindsay Sutton takes to the air. NEVER mind ‘The Wrong Kind of Trousers.’ We had ‘The Wrong Kind of Wind,’…
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Walking among volcanoes – Tenerife AGM 2016
Last night we squinted through the dusk to follow the rocky, uneven path that led us back from a fiery sunset…
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Mount Teide – Tenerife AGM 2016
They say the altitude might affect you. Hardly surprising. The Teleferico Teide cable car shoots up to the upper station at…
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Whale trail – Tenerife AGM 2016
Liz Gill spots pilot whales and bottle-nosed dolphins off the coast of Tenerife I’m not much of a betting person but…
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Aquatic Fly Over – Tenerife 2016
Most of us like to remain in our comfort zones. My comfort zone is avoiding anything with more than a…
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The other side of Tenerife – AGM 2016
This year the British Guild of Travel Writers held its Annual General Meeting in Tenerife. From paragliding to whale watching,…
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Walk this way – Tenerife AGM 2016
With more than a decade of accumulated knowledge and thousands of footsore kilometres behind them, Guild member Andrea Montgomery and…
Not long to go until the Guild’s AGM in Tenerife. Andrea Montgomery, who lives there, provides a snapshot from the…
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Members News: Winter 2015
ISSUED BY THE BRITISH GUILD OF TRAVEL WRITERS Issue No.51; December 2015 CHAIRMAN’S MESSAGE The autumn and early winter of…
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£3724 raised for Railway Children
A fabulous array of raffle prizes* enabled the Guild to raise an impressive £3724 at its annual awards dinner towards the the East…
Best Wider World Tourism Award: Túcume Museum, Peru (Hilary Bradt). It highlights a relatively unknown civilisation that flourished in northern Peru from about…
The Best European Tourism Award went to the replica Caverne Pont d’Arc (nominated by BGTW members Mary Anne Evans and John Malathronas). It opened in Ardèche,…
The winner of the UK Tourism Awards is Lincoln Castle Revealed & Magna Carta Vault (nominated by BGTW member Gillian Thornton). Founded by…
BGTW Photographer of the Year Award sponsored by Fuji Film went to Tim Bird who is based in Helsinki. His winning images captured subjects…
BGTW Travel Writer of the Year award, sponsored by Travel PR, went to Jonathan Thompson for a portfolio of travel articles in the Daily Telegraph, Escapism, Metro and the Guardian. They…
The British Guild of Travel Writers’ annual tourism awards were announced last night on the eve of World Travel Market.…
The cream of travel writing and photography was celebrated with the unveiling of the British Guild of Travel Writers’ 2016 Members’ Awards on…
It’s not every evening you’re entertained by a top Armenian jazz musician on the empty wine bottle and tea tray.…
Twitter has become the best way to keep up with the news as it happens, find sources, find an audience…