Looking forward to more fun and frolics at tonight's TravMedia UK awards, and repping Adventure.com which has been shortlisted in the new Travel Media Website of the Year category! Wishing everyone a great night 🥳 #TravMediaAwards

Well, something had to go a bit wrong this week! Slight 'technical hitch' (thanks Zoom🙄) but sorted eventually. Massive thanks to panel and attendees for being calm and nice about it 😊 Ross Clarke your dulcet tones on the phone definitely helped somehow...

Not too late to register for today's webinar if you want to join live on how travel writers can work more effectively with travel PRs. Recording sent either way/if you get it after. Thanks AdventureTravelNetworking for sponsoring & Talking Travel Writing for support.
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Also so chuffed that a story about ferries, paradores and cheese for Wanderlust won online Consumer Feature of the Year–such a great trip to N Spain! Fab to see friends/colleagues yday & congrats all esp Karen Edwards Emma Gregg for their special awards!
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So this was pretty special yday—our first award for the site itself! Thank you Inspire Global for Adventure.com's Positive Impact Storytelling Outstanding Contribution award & to our writers including Lebawit "Lily" Girma who won for a fab piece🎊 adventure.com/disneyfication…

And with all the awards coming up over next 6ish months, sharing this opinion piece again about taking awards with a pinch of salt, but also why they're a good showcase (imo) if done well. Thanks Shebs The Wanderer Voyagers Voice for asking me to write this last year voyagersvoice.com/diversity-isnt…

Congratulations to Adventure.com contributor Rashmi Narayan who's been shortlisted in U.S. Travel's IPW's Travel Writer Awards for her story, 'Legacies matter: Why one man turned personal artifacts from West Africa into a museum in Kentucky.' 👏🏽 adventure.com/roots-101-afri…

In 2022, I won a prize I'd sourced for the BGTW Awards charity raffle in then-role as Chair. Tried to get tkt re-drawn but to no avail! So merci Ski France Heaven Publicity for five magical, sunny, snowy days in Meribel-Mottaret in the French Alps. It's been fun🧀 + restorative❄️

Take four aspiring travel writers, four mentors, and one inaugural Intrepid Travel Diversifying Travel Media trip to Croatia. From ecotourism to nostalgia to heritage, read the stories by Chau-Jean Lin Kira Richards Queenie Shaikh and Sakhita Sharma.
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Woohoo! Publication Day!

Watching this now with my mum who recalls moving to 1970s Britain and we're remembering various incidents into the '80s. Moving, empowering and important TV. Kudos to all behind it Rajesh Thind

So happy that my Talking Travel Writing mentee has had his first piece of travel writing published. Thanks to Kirsten Henton for taking a chance on this excellent writer and I am sure this is the beginning of a great new career for J.D. Murphy - thanks to Lottie Gross Steph Dyson

Heartfelt thanks to The Times and The Sunday Times for this marvellous tribute to my dear friend John Malathronas. BGTW
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Sure, although in graphic design we're evidently still restricted to MS Paint