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Acting deputy travel editor, the times and the sunday times.

Liz Edwards is acting deputy travel editor for The Times and The Sunday Times , and is a previous winner of the AITO travel writer of the year award.

GEMMA TAYLOR

writer | editor | proofreader

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An experienced journalist, I've written stories for major publications for almost two decades, with a particular slant towards travel and adventure, stemming from 10 years as part of the travel team at The Sunday Times. I've swum with whale sharks, raced huskies, been reborn by a shaman and canoed with crocs… all in the name of a good story. More recently, as a freelancer, I've crafted content for clients across various subjects – from homes and interiors to cybersecurity, health tech, finance and sustainability (take a look at my recent projects here ). I can write, edit, copyedit, proofread and craft tone of voice. See Services  or get in contact for more info about what I can do for you…

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Gemma is one of the sharpest and most elegant writers in the business. Her versatility means she can turn her pen to any subject, her natural flair means every word is a pleasure to read, and her unfailingly professional attitude means her work is always on time, on brief, accurate  and effective. 

Ed Grenby, former Editor at The Sunday Times Travel magazine

Gemma was my Chief Sub-Editor on The Sunday Times Travel magazine for several years. I can't recommend her highly enough. She is an excellent copy editor, with a flair for snappy headlines and cheeky captions. She is also a reliable, meticulous fact-checker and combines speed with charm. A lovely person to work with. 

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Wearing a different hat, Sue blogs on a weekly basis for the cross-cultural intelligence website  Country Navigator . She has written all the destination content for CountryNavigator.com and has produced cross-cultural training guides to more than 90 countries for executives going to live and work abroad.

Sue has also written or edited more than 25 travel books, from guidebooks about the Costa del Sol, Barcelona, Ibiza, Cyprus and Tel Aviv to Insight Guides’ Great River Cruises (Europe and the Nile). With York-based REM Productions, she has edited coffee table books for cruise lines including Cunard, Oceania Cruises, Viking Cruises and MSC Cruises, branching out recently from travel to produce An Italian Culinary Journey for Silversea Cruises.

She lives in west London with her two teenagers and two dogs.

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Claire Irvin appointed Head of Travel of The Times and The Sunday…

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Claire Irvin has been appointed Head of Travel of The Times and The Sunday Times, and will start this August. 

Reporting to John Witherow, editor of The Times, and Emma Tucker, editor of The Sunday Times, in this new role Claire will lead the award-winning travel team of writers. It will be her responsibility to oversee the travel section’s digital-first publishing strategy and travel based editorial commercial projects such as Times Travel.

Claire is a respected journalist and experienced digital operator, and joins after five years in the role of Head of Travel at The Telegraph. She is also an experienced magazine editor, and previously was editor-in-chief of SHE magazine, editor at large of Grazia, acting editor of Company, and has worked at Red, InStyle and teen magazines Sugar and ElleGirl. 

Claire Irvin said;  “I’m delighted to be joining The Times and The Sunday Times at this exciting time in their digital transformation, and developing their quality travel journalism into an irresistible world of inspiration, innovation and expert advice for their readers. 

  Despite the challenges that international travel continues to face, its importance in the lives of The Times’ subscribers has never been greater, and I can’t wait to surprise and delight them with brilliant journalism showcasing the opportunities that await them, across all platforms. Here’s to new adventures!”

John Witherow said;  “I’m delighted Claire is joining to head-up our travel team. She will be a great asset in ensuring we are maximising the reach and commercial potential of our distinct and engaging travel content.”

Emma Tucker said;   “I am really pleased Claire is joining our world-class travel team in this integral new role. She has exceptional journalism, editing and digital experience and I look forward to working with her.”

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Alicia miller, writer & editor.

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Gruelling detox retreats, fitness holidays, gold-plated facials; skin-softening hammams - I've done them all, and more, in the name of wellness research. For six years as Assistant Editor at The Sunday Times Travel Magazine , I wrote about spa and wellness, covering spa reviews, beauty product testing and feel-good holidays. Now I write about wellbeing travel for the Evening Standard and Woman & Home .

Check out a sample of my recent spa and wellness pieces below. Or click here to see more of my wellness, travel and food writing .

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Ex-Sunday Times Travel Magazine staff join independent mag ahead of relaunch

By Charlotte Tobitt

Update 2: 19 April 2021

An independent travel magazine and website has hired two former Sunday Times Travel Magazine journalists as it prepares to relaunch with new investment.

Katie Bowman, features editor of  the monthly News UK title until its closure last summer , has been named editor of Family Traveller which will relaunch in print in June as the travel market hopes to open up again.

Bowman will be joined by her former editor Ed Grenby who will take on the new position of chief content and strategy officer to guide Family Traveller in its aim to scale both in the UK and globally, with offices in the US and Berlin planned for the third quarter of this year.

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Family Traveller founder and chief executive Andrew Dent said: “I am absolutely delighted to welcome Ed and Katie to Family Traveller. They bring with them a huge amount of experience and knowledge, as well as an extensive network across travel and lifestyle media.

“To be able to secure such high-profile talent shows our clear intent to become a major travel media platform in the UK and internationally. There is no doubt that, post-pandemic, travel will bounce back with gusto — and our research shows that family-centric travel will lead that recovery.”

Dent said Family Traveller had carried out a survey of 2,400 readers which he said showed many affluent families had saved holiday money during the pandemic and were now “desperate to get away” and willing to spend up to 20% more.

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Family Traveller has received investment to relaunch led by German Capital Partner, a Berlin-based private equity group, which Dent said “shows confidence in our business model and our plan to scale internationally”.

Update 1: 24 September 2020

The Family Traveller brand was bought by an investment group in what its liquidator said in a statement was “a vote of confidence in the brand, and the future of the travel sector as a whole”.

Original story: 22 September 2020

The director of a travel magazine company that went into liquidation because of Covid-19 remains optimistic that the sector will recover in early 2021.

The Family Traveller magazine was forced to abruptly halt its quarterly print production in April, despite having editions for the UK and US almost entirely ready to go with major advertisers on board.

The website kept going until early September, when the liquidation took place, but company founder and director Andrew Dent told Press Gazette that despite strong traffic it was difficult to monetise – a problem  faced by many media organisations  despite  record readership  in the past six months.

Dent, who founded parent company Ardent Media Ltd for the magazine’s UK launch in 2013, said: “We are predominantly an advertising led business and our clients are predominantly tourist boards and hotels and cruise lines, all of which obviously have been materially impacted by Covid and haven’t been able to do any advertising-led activity, mainly because things keep changing so much and if you were to do a campaign with someone by the time we actually launched it the information could have changed.

“So the entire industry has been paralysed for six to seven months which has meant that our revenue has fallen to effectively zero.

“And while the traffic is high and the engagement is really good on social, if you can’t monetise that traffic or engagement there’s not an awful lot you can do.

“It’s frustrating because we were profitable and growing – in January and February we had two of our record months and then March and April fell to zero… £100,000 plus per month to zero. No media business can absorb that.”

Dent pointed to the  closure of the Sunday Times Travel Magazine  and redundancies across the sector as he added: “The past five to six months have been incredibly difficult on everybody.”

“It’s really out of all of our control as publishers in travel media right now,” he said.

But he added that his aim has been to retain the brand’s presence and be ready for recovery in the sector when it comes.

“Because it will come and people will travel again and people will buy travel magazines again and I think the first issue we do will be hugely popular,” he said.

He hopes the brand will return to print in January 2021, with at least three editions next year, to target people starting to book family holidays for Easter or next summer.

According to liquidators Wilkin Chapman, Ardent Media Ltd had already hit financial difficulty before Covid due to an investment issue with a US company that could not pay back what it owed.

Ardent Media therefore went into a voluntary arrangement to pay creditors back over a set period of time, but this was hindered by the coronavirus crisis and the company instead went into voluntary liquidation.

According to Wilkin Chapman, the company went into liquidation owing about £65,000 to staff for holiday, redundancy and notice pay and about £219,000 to trade and expense creditors, including freelance contributors.

HMRC is owed £270,000 and Dent as director was left with £222,000 outstanding.

The process has now begun of trying to sell off the company’s assets and speaking to interested parties, and Dent said there are likely investors meaning “the brand will survive”.

Dent said about 50% of the scrapped content for the April magazines can likely be repurposed, but the rest would have been time sensitive copy.

There were about eight permanent members of staff based in London who were furloughed in April, and Dent said he is “hopeful” he can bring them all back with the magazine’s relaunch. The websites were kept running with the use of freelance contractors.

A group of travel media leaders  spoke to Press Gazette back in April with their initial take on the crisis : many decided to focus on positive stories for the industry and work with competitors to get through it.

Like Dent, they also foresaw a “pent up demand” for travel once permitted – the only question is when this will become a more permanent prospect again.

Family Traveller magazine had an average circulation of about 35,000 in 2017, according to the latest available ABC figures.

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About Katie Wood Travel Editor, Writer and Presenter

Award-winning Freelance Journalist & Broadcaster

• Holds a Fellowship from the Royal Geographical Society
• Former Travel Editor for ‘ The Sunday Times’ newspaper (Scottish edition)
• Former Travel Editor for four other UK national newspapers .
• Regular contributor to ‘The Herald ‘ – the most-read quality paper in Scotland
• Regular contributor to ‘Luxury Lifestyle Magazine’
• Written on worldwide travel for thirty seven years
• Travelled to over 140 countries on all continents
• Winner of ‘ Best Destination Feature on France ‘ in 2015 from the French Tourist Board
• Winner of ‘Best Travel Feature 2019 ‘ Wall Street Journal’
• Author of  ‘Best new Travel Guide of 1984’ from British Society of Authors
• Years of TV presenting, script writing and producing on prime time TV on travel programmes such as  ‘Wish You Were Here’ and ‘Scottish Passport’.

Following a Masters  degree in English at Edinburgh University, and coming ‘Top Student of the Year’ in a subsequent ‘Communication Studies’ diploma, Katie identified a market in travel writing and set off round Europe with a backpack for 18 months, travelling to 26 countries in Europe and North Africa.

Three months after returning she had a contract from Penguin Books and was writing her first book, the award-winning best-seller ‘ Europe by Train’ .

Within a year, it was dubbed ‘The Inter Railer’s Bible’ and was in the Top Ten Best Selling non-fiction books in the UK, and went on to be translated into five languages. She continued to research and write guidebooks for the next 25 years, going on to publish a further 38 titles.

She also worked as Travel Editor on guidebooks for HarperCollins Publishers .

As a resident ‘travel expert’ on BBC radio and national TV, presenting travel programmes followed in the career path, seeing Katie working on travel classics such as ITV’s ‘ Wish You Were Here’ and devising the concept of; writing scripts for, and lead-presenting  in ITV Scotland’s BAFTA-nominated travel series ‘ Scottish Passport’ .

In the 1990’s Katie supplemented writing around 100 articles of her own per year by undertaking Marketing Consultancy work for bodies such as British Airways , the British Tourism Authority , Visit Scotland and the  European Union DGXXIII Dept of Tourism. This ranged in content from market identification and analysis for new products, to environmental tourism assessments, writing and designing brochures and tourism literature, and advising on P.R. and promotional campaigns.

As a Travel Editor for the Daily Express Newspaper Group ( Daily Express , Sunday Express , Daily Star , Sunday Star , OK! Magazine ), she was responsible for writing, editing, commissioning and running the travel pages over various titles in the group. Previous to that, she worked as the London-based Travel Editor for the UK’s best-selling newspaper –  The Sun   –   and before that, as a writer for The Daily Telegraph .

Her freelance travel writing has been regularly published in The Times , The Sunday Times , The Scotsman , The Guardian , Wall Street Journal,  Daily Telegraph, The Independent , The Daily Mail and numerous other newspapers and consumer magazines, such as The Sydney Morning Herald, Marie Claire ,  Elle , Scottish Field, and Ideal Home .

She also wrote a column on Health & Beauty for The Daily Mail ( https://www.dailymail.co.uk ) for five years.

‘ Europe by Train’ ran for over 20 years, and was updated annually. As well as making it into the Top 10 non-fiction books sold in the UK, it was also translated into five languages and sales ran into hundreds of thousands.

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As a leading freelance travel writer, and authority on luxury travel, I regularly contribute to a prestigious array of top travel titles and luxury lifestyle publications, including The Telegraph , The Times of London , and Conde Nast Traveller . 

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Using the skills I've garnered over twenty years criss-crossing the globe and working at the highest levels of the travel media, it's not an understatement to say that I am uniquely placed to identify what makes a property special and pinpoint ways to elevate it to unforgettable levels.

In the past, I've collaborated with a range of luxury properties, from urban boutique hotels, to far-flung eco-retreats, to private island resorts, and large international brands.

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