Juliet Coombe

Biography

Women Love Travel Asia Editor, trailblazing photojournalist, book author & deeply passionate travel producer, who likes to deep dive into a destination to bring out its experiences as seen recently in TPOTY in Sri Lanka. Juliet Coombe is also an inspiring storyteller who worked with Miguel Cunat to create the multi award winning Pekoe Trail across the mountains of Sri Lanka, which Time Magazine listed as one of The World’s Greatest Places of 2025 and will be writing a philosophical guide to this game changing walk.

While based in Asia Juliet also written numerous books about the continent including Asia’s Best Hotel and Villa guides. Whilst living in the ancient city of Galle Fort she researched and wrote Around The Galle Fort in 80 Lives, the first guide to the North and the East Sri Lanka’s Other Half, Generation Tea, Colombo City Guide, The Power Of Sri Lankan Art, and a ground breaking environmental guide, Paradise Exorcised, for Luxury brand Jetwing Hotels & Travels. She created the Mayflower Sea Change book & guide to 400 things to see and do in Plymouth with a fascinating look at how we will live and travel over the next 400 years. She photographed retracing the transatlantic route with inaugural PAN AM private Jet flight as it returned to the skies in June 2025 and was the picture editor of Around The World In 65 Years, whilst working on a game changing book Natures Wild Characters & spaces, which will be coming out in June 2027.

Juliet is deeply passionate about the wild and the importance of bio diversity travel covered in her latest stunning book Brief Garden, Sri Lanka Unlocking The Heart and Soul of Tropical Landscape Design, which has been short listed for BGTW Travel Narrative Book Of The Year Award 2026. Her work has also appeared in Lonely Planet guide books on the covers and in city guides, Insight & Pilot Guides, Intrepid Asia, Arabia & Africa books, Metro travel sections, Get Lost Travel Magazine in Australia which she launched whilst in Australia, The Sunday Times, Muddy Stiletto, and has regular features in Eye for the Light TPOTY. Also producing and shooting travel programmes for Secrets of Ceylon on Colombo, and for presenter Mark Edwards for Jet Set TV on Sri Lanka, which won the Global Media Travel TV Inspire Award in 2026 and currently pitching a pilot travel series on Beautiful Britain.

 

Mini-Portfolio Work Examples

• womenlovetravel.com.au – Meet The Mysterious Night Guardian of Forests – The Sri Lankan Loris 


• Sir David Attenborough feature on the Travel Photographer of the Year (TPOTY):


• A Voice for Nature





• Eye for the Light Saving Neverland Editorial





• TPOTY India in London Feature Link





• Wembley’s Immersive India Tour – a Little Taste of Gujarat – Travel Begins at 40 (Photography)





• Launch of New Book on Bevis Bawa’s Brief Garden by Juliet Coombe – The Island Newspaper





• TPOTY Creative Nostalgia





• The Alchemy of Ambalangoda’s Mask & Tide – Jetwing Select by Juliet Coombe.





• Jetwing Island Insider: Jetwing Kurulubedda – Mind Relaxing Jungle of Birds Article.





• Around the World in 65 Years: 101 Stories and Experiences From the Road Less Travelled (Anthology Photo Editor; Mask Making Experience: Photography) – Journey Books/Bradt/BGTW





• I produced Welcome to Sri Lanka! for Jetset TV and Secrets of Ceylon Videos on Sri Lanka like Forgotten Colombo on a Landy YouTube – Over 10,000 Views





• Sri Lankan travel documentary wins top honor – The Island





• Sri Lanka ‘Travel Documentary’ wins top honor at ‘Global Media Awards 2026’ in London – Sri Lanka Sunday Times





• My favourite places: Photojournalist & travel book author Juliet Coombe – Muddy Stilettos

Recent & Upcoming Trips

Gibraltar (November 2026) Sri Lanka Wildlife (2026/27), Italy (2027), Japan (2026), UK Cornwall & Devon (2026/27)

Destination Expertise

United Kingdom (UK), Europe, Asia, Sri Lanka, United States of America (USA)

Specialisms

Adventure Travel, Architecture & Design, Contextual Journalism & Reporting, Culture & History, Sustainable Travel, Wildlife & Birdlife (non-safari)