AITO (Association of Independent Tour Operators) Travel Writer of the Year
AITO Travel Writer of the Year (TWOTY) Over 1,500 words
SILVER: Meera Dattani – No homework needed: Learning life lessons in the lush jungles of Costa Rica
FINALIST: Lisa Young – Is this one of Jordan’s most extraordinary treks?
AITO Travel Writer of the Year Under 1,500 words
FINALIST: Nori Jemil – The first astronomers: How Australia’s Indigenous Elders read the night sky
AITO Young Travel Writer of the Year
FINALIST: Laura Field – The language of travel: Is it time we stop ‘discovering’ and ‘doing’ countries?
Press Gazette – British Journalism Awards
Travel Journalism category
FINALIST: Shafik Meghji for a portfolio of work that included In search of Britain’s forgotten rainforests
Travel Media Awards
The Travel Media Awards are the only UK national awards exclusively recognizing excellence and achievement across all forms of media
Consumer Publication of the Year Online
FINALIST: Adventure.com
National Consumer Feature of the Year
FINALIST: Hannah Foster-Roe – This is where I used to sleep”: Meet the tour guides offering a new perspective of London
FINALIST: Jamie Fullerton – Cowboys of the Kalahari: Inside the death metal subculture of the Botswana desert
Sustainability Travel Feature of the Year
FINALIST: Emma Gregg – Africa’s green cuisine revolution: Meet the new generation of safari chefs switching things up
FINALIST: Sarah Reid – We need to talk about the future of Antarctic tourism
FINALIST: Shivya Nath – What I learnt on a ‘no fly’ journey from Switzerland to the Arctic
British Guild of Travel Writers Members’ Excellence Awards
Travel feature of the Year – UK
FINALIST: Shafik Meghji – In search of Britain’s forgotten rainforests
Travel feature of the year – Europe
FINALIST: Kerry Walker – How to live well (and long) according to the Greek island of Ikaria
Sustainability feature of the year
FINALIST: Karen Gardiner – Ghost town no more: How tourism revived a once-decimated Newfoundland fishing community
ASTW (Australian Society of Travel Writers) Awards for Excellence 2023 awards Beat 2022 Convention Host Story
WINNER: Tara Wells – There’s a wave of middle-aged women learning to surf and I’m on it
Mumbrella Publish Awards
Newsletter of the Year
FINALIST: Adventure.com – Intrepid Travel with Good&Proper
Column of the Year
FINALIST: Sarah Reid – Good&Proper with Intrepid for Adventure.com
Custom publication of the year
FINALIST: Adventure.com – Intrepid Travel with Good&Proper
LATA (Latin American Travel Association) Media Awards
RUNNER-UP: Shafik Meghji – Hope is out there: What a decade of travels in Bolivia has taught me about the climate crisis
RUNNER-UP: Mark Stratton – How did a former seaweed empire become Patagonia’s Galapagos?
Inspire Global Media Awards
The IGMAs recognise excellence across the travel media landscape, celebrating individuals and organisations bringing to life stories of sustainable, positive impact tourism
Consumer magazine feature of the year (Africa & Indian Ocean)
HIGHLY COMMENDED: Summer Rylander – Behind the scenes of a fundraising expedition in southern Africa
Consumer magazine feature of the year (Americas & The Caribbean)
WINNER: Karen Gardiner – How tourism revived a once-decimated Newfoundland fishing community
FINALIST: Mark Stratton – How did a former seaweed empire become Patagonia’s Galapagos?
Consumer magazine feature of the year (Asia, Australasia & Oceania)
WINNER: Mark Stratton – The Big Question: Can even ‘ethical’ elephant tourism ever be truly ethical?
HIGHLY COMMENDED: Nori Jemil – The first astronomers: How Australia’s Indigenous Elders read the night sky
Consumer magazine feature of the year (UK, Europe & non-geo-specific)
FINALIST: Holly Tuppen – Can you really ‘support local communities’ while traveling with a major travel company?
