🥁Huge congratulations to Lorna Parkes for winning Consumer Online Feature of the Year – Asia, Australasia & Oceania for ‘Tourism is our only option’: the community banking on birding in north India‘ published in Guardian Travel at the #IGMAs 2024. Sponsored by #your_sunlife
Richard Franks Visit Birmingham & West Midlands VisitEnglandBiz VisitBritain 🇬🇧 West Midlands Growth Company Birmingham and the West Midlands Convention Bureau Lorna Parkes Tom Marlow LeaderofBirmingham Bham City Council Independent Birmingham Reading it in the departure lounge at St Pancras mate!
Meera Dattani 🇪🇺 Lorna Parkes Congratulations on your awards Meera and all the other travel writers! Keep spreading the word 🎶✍🏼
My plans had to change this week so I’m not in London and very sad to be missing the Inspire Global awards tonight. Such a great set of shortlisted articles covering the very best in responsible travel initiatives. Good luck to all the writers! Please celebrate hard 🥂
Inspire Global Guardian Travel And the award was kindly picked up for me by the wonderful Jane Dunford (pictured), who commissioned me for this piece. Thanks all! Such an honour to receive it.
Beautiful article on a hiking trip through India’s Himalayan foothills, visiting rural communities that have created a birdwatching festival to attract tourists
By Lorna Parkes Guardian Travel
#IGMAs #PositiveImpactStorytelling
🧵 7/10
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Simon J Dixon Richard Franks Visit Birmingham & West Midlands VisitEnglandBiz VisitBritain 🇬🇧 West Midlands Growth Company Birmingham and the West Midlands Convention Bureau Lorna Parkes Tom Marlow LeaderofBirmingham Bham City Council Independent Birmingham Do you not buy cheap paint when on holiday? For many, it is an essential vacation ritual.
And I won! Thanks so much to Inspire Global for picking my piece on the communities in India’s Himalayan foothills that are championing bird watching tourism. Village Ways do amazing work and I can’t recommend their tours enough.
Richard Franks Anthony Teasdale Visit Birmingham & West Midlands VisitEnglandBiz VisitBritain 🇬🇧 West Midlands Growth Company Birmingham and the West Midlands Convention Bureau Lorna Parkes Tom Marlow LeaderofBirmingham Bham City Council Independent Birmingham I was thinking of buying this for this article as we’ve been thinking of having a weekend there. It’s not very cool to give it away though, is this the only page?
