The function of Travelwriters UK is to give individual professional travel writers and other travel journalists a 'shop window' that can be seen by editors anywhere in the world. In addition, if work offers are sent to us, they are circulated to the membership.

Travelwriters UK was created by the British travel writer Andrew Sanger in the year 2000. It is still run by Andrew together with his partner Gerry Dunham. Andrew deals with all contact with members, forwarding offers of work and answering any queries. Gerry deals with new applications, administration and communication with non-members.

Andrew is familiar with travel journalism from both the writer's and editor's point of view. He has had a long and successful career as a full-time professional travel writer, editor and author. He's written more than thirty guidebooks, most for major travel publishers, as well as hundreds of feature articles for UK nationals (broadsheets and tabloids), consumer and customer magazines and websites, and edited a travel magazine for French Railways. You can find out more about him and his work from his own website and his Travelwriters UK Personal Page.

Although a membership organisation, Travelwriters UK is not a charity. However, prices are kept low to encourage more writers and other journalists to join, on the basis that the more members it has, the more commissions it will generate, and the more useful it will be to each of the members.

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