The 2011 British Travel Press Awards
The 2011 British Travel Press Awards
The 2011 British Travel Press Awards
Home To Nominate Criteria & Submission Information Judges & Advisory Panel Finalists Winners

Recognising excellence
& achievement in
travel writing, photography and broadcasting


THE FINALISTS 2011

Travel Trade Writer of the Year

 

Consumer Travel Writer of the Year

 - Steve Hartridge, BMI Publishing
 - Andy Hoskins, BMI Publishing
 - April Hutchinson, TTG Luxury
 - Stuart Render, Coach Monthly
 - Ian Taylor, Travel Weekly

 

 - Frank Barrett, Mail on Sunday
 - Ian Belcher, freelance writer
 - Jennifer Cox, freelance writer
 - Chris Leadbeater, freelance writer
 - Mark Palmer, Daily Mail
 - Nigel Tisdall, freelance writer

Travel Blogger of the Year

 

Broadcast Travel Writer of the Year

 - Paul Corbett
 - Jayne Gorman
 - Abigail King
 - Chris Leadbeater
 - Sarah Outen
 - Theodora Sutcliffe

 

 - Karen Bowerman
 - Michelle Jana Chan
 - Ged Cleugh
 - Julian Hanton

Travel Photographer of the Year

 

Young Travel Writer of the Year

 - Roger Norum
 - Mark Read
 - Andrew Rowat
 - Pete Seaward
 - Jenny Zarins

 

 - Nick Boulos
 - Gemma Bowes, The Guardian
 - Ruth Styles, freelance writer, Ecologist
 - Helen Warwick, National Geographic
   Traveller
 - Amy Watkins

Travel Trade Publication of the Year 

 

Consumer Travel Publication of the Year

 - ABTA Magazine
 - The Business Travel Magazine
 - Selling Long Haul
 - TTG Luxury
 - Travel Weekly

 

 - Condé Nast Traveller
 - Lonely Planet Magazine
 - National Geographic Traveller (UK)
 - Ultratravel
 - Wanderlust

Online Travel Trade Publication of the Year

 

Online Consumer Travel Publication of the Year

 - ABTN
 - AERBT
 - Tnooz
 - Travel Weekly
 - TTG Digital

 

 - Business Traveller
 - Daily Mail
 - Red
 - The Guardian

National Newspaper Travel Section of the Year

 

Consumer Magazine Travel Section of the Year

 - Mail On Sunday
 - Sunday Telegraph
 - The Guardian

 

 - Brides
 - Elle
 - Homes & Gardens
 - Red
 - Time Out

Travel Guide Book of the Year

 

Narrative Travel Book of the Year

 - Capetown - published by Time Out 
   Shortlist

  - Hong Kong - published by DK
   E
yewitness Travel Top 10
 - Istanbul Select - published by
   The Insight Travel Guide
s

 - Frommer's Salzburg Day by Day - by
   Nick Dalton - published by John Wiley &
  Sons

 - Make the Most of Your time in Britain  -
   published by Rough Travel Guides
 - Slow Sussex & South Downs National
   Park
by Tim Locke - published by Bradt
   Travel Guides

 

 - An Idiot Abroad, the Travel Diaries of
   Karl Pilkington
by Ricky Gervais &
   Stephen Merchant
published by
   Canongate

 - Cream Teas, Traffic Jams & Sunburn by 
   Brian Viner
published by Simon &
   Schuster

 - I Left my Tent in San Francisco by
   Emma Kennedy - published by
   Ebury Press

 - The Man who Cycled the Americasby
    Mark Beaumont - published by Bantam
    Press

 - To Hull and Back, On Holiday in Unsung
   Britain
by Tom Chesshyre - published by
   Summersdale

Travel Trade Feature of the Year

 

Consumer Travel Feature of the Year

 - Judith Baker
 - Peter Ellegard
 - Jo Gardner
 - Andy Hoskins
 - Katherine Lawrey

 

 - Paul Croughton
 - Will Gray
 - Roger Norum
 - Kevin Rushby
 - Marcel Theroux

Travel Editors' Green Award of the Year

 

Broadcast Travel Programme of the Year

 - Green Traveller
 - Responsible Travel
 - Snowcarbon
 - The Gambia Experience
 - The Savoy

 

 - American Civil War Trail - Travel
   Channel
 - Insider Guide - BBC World News fast:track
 - Joanna Lumley's Nile -  Tiger Aspect
   Productions
 - Jules Verne's Volcano - Iceland - a
   Whistledown Production for BBC
   Radio 4
 - The LBC Travel Show with Simon
    Calder
- Radio LBC 97.3 FM
 - Unique Macau with David Wickers -
    Travel Guru TV

Travel Journalists' Award for the Best UK Travel Website of the Year

 

Outstanding Contribution Awards

 - Holiday Extras
 - MSN Travel
 - Pitchup.com
 - Responsible Travel
 - SelectiveAsia
 - The Man in Seat 61

 

 - Graham Boynton
 - Judith Chalmers, OBE