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I
am an Asia-based travel, business and lifestyle writer, researcher and
editor specialising in China, the Far East and South East Asia. I travel
frequently and divide my time between bases in Shanghai, Kuala Lumpur
and Oxford. In 2008, I co-founded Scribes of the Orient, a Shanghai and
Hong Kong-based content and editorial services agency.
I have recently reviewed hotels, restaurants and sites of interest
across Asia for Concierge.com, been the Shanghai Editor for ZAGAT Survey
and LUXE Guides, and Editor of the Beijing, Shanghai and Singapore
Culture & Shopping Highlights Guides. In 2011, I authored Mintel’s
Backpacker Trails in Asia Pacific research report, updated the National
Geographic Shanghai and Beijing guide, fact-checked for the Insight
China guide, and wrote a series of articles on aspects of culture,
travel and lifestyle in Japan.
I am a frequent contributor to Business Traveler (US), Condé Nast
Traveller, TTG Asia, Prestige Hong Kong, SilverKris and Travel Age West,
and write a regular business travel column for AmEx’s Business Travel
Connexion website.
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SPECIALITIES
China (incl. Hong Kong and Macau), the Far East, Malaysia,
Singapore and South East Asia. Corporate travel, MICE, Asian
travel and hospitality, Restaurant and Hotel Reviews,
Aviation, Hospitality, Luxury Travel, Design and Architecture.
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ARTICLES
My most
recent published features include:
Backpacker
Trails in Asia Pacific
(Mintel Report, November 2011)
Kuala Lumpur: 5 Must Dos
(SilverKris,
September 2011)
Beijing to Shanghai: A Train for Two Cities
(The Guardian, July 2011)
Design Forward: Seoul Stirs
(Premium Traveler, June 2011)
Six of the Best: Global Eats & Stays (Prestige Hong Kong,
April 2011)
Places to Watch in China 2011
(Travel Age West, January 2011)
George Town, Malaysia (Travel
Age West, December 2010)
Singapore: The Lion's Share
(Upward Curve, December 2010)
Spain's Fab Four: Madrid, Barcelona,
Valencia & Bilbao (SilverKris, November 2010)
Coastal Jewels of Croatia
(Travel Age West, September 2010)
Tiger Balm: Ho Chi Minh City
(Business Traveler, July/August 2010)
Another Level: The World's Best Executive
Hotel Floors (Business Traveler, May 2010)
Shanghai: The Bund is Back
(CNN Traveller, May 2010)
Big World: Shanghai’s Dramatic Makeover for
the 2010 World Expo (Business Traveler, April 2010)
Singapore Swings (CNN Traveller, January/February 2010)
Accommodating the 2010 World Expo: Challenges for Shanghai
Hoteliers (Shanghai Business Review, January 2010)
Fast Track on the CRH: China's Railways Go
Super High-Speed (TTG Asia, February 2010)
Hainan Rolls the Dice as First China
Province with Gaming (TTG Asia, January 2010)
China's Hainan Island Sees Growth
(TravelAgeWest, November 2009)
Shanghai's Pre-Expo Makeover
(TTG Mice, October 2009)
24 Hours in Ningbo (CNN Traveller, September 2009)
Swire Group Debuts Its Brand in Asia
(Travel Age West, October 2009)
Beijing’s Prolonged Hangover
(TTG Asia, August 2009)
Cruising to Success at the Bund
(TTG Asia, August 2009)
Guangzhou: Ready For Play (Business Traveler, February 2009)
Beguiling Bandung (TravelAgeWest, February 2009)
Dynamic Tianjin: The ‘Shanghai of the North’
(Urbane, October 2008)
Beijing’s Olympic Legacy (TravelAgeWest, September 2008)
Beijing Insider, Daily Olympic Reports
(Sherman’s Travel, August 2008)
First-Timer’s Guide to China (Business Traveler,
July/August 2008)
Asian Aviation Soars on Confidence (CNBC Europe Business,
June 2008)
Sleeping Giants: China’s Sky-High Hotels (New York
Times T Magazine, April 2008)
Chungking Express
(Urbane, April 2008)
Towering Ambitions: Singapore Builds Big
(CNN Traveller,
Mar/Apr 2008)
Sleeping Giants: China’s New High-Rise Hotels (New York
Times T Magazine, March 2008)
Soldier On: Inside the New Xi’an Museum (That’s Shanghai,
February 2008)
10 Things You Might Not Know About Ningbo
(Scribes of the
Orient, January 2008)
Follow the Leader: Mao’s Legacy in Modern China
(CNN
Traveller, Nov/Dec 2007)
Rich History: Xi’an Goes From Terracotta to High-tech
(Business Traveler, Nov 2007)
Art Deco Shanghai (Silk Road, September 2007)
Beijing: A City in Waiting (WorldTravelGuide.net, August
2007)
Macau Gets Set to Bring on the Bling (BizChinaUpdate.com,
August 2007)
El Salvador: 15 Years After the Civil War (CNN Traveller,
July/Aug 2007)
Inside I.M. Pei's New Suzhou Museum (That's Shanghai, May
2007)
24 Hours in Beijing (CNN Traveller, May/June 2007)
Shanghai's Contemporary Art Scene (Silk Road, April 2007)
Great Stalls of China: Selling Luxury Brands in China (CNN
Traveller,
March/April 2007)
China 101 (Sherman's Travel, March 2007)
Tokyo Mini Guide & Hotel Reviews (Forbestraveler.com,
October 2006)
Singapore City Break (ABTA magazine, September 2006)
Air India & Indian Airlines (CNN Traveller, July/Aug 2006)
Saigon City of Surprises (Travel Age West, July 2006)
New World Order: Asia’s Low-Cost Airlines (CNN Traveller,
May/June 2006)
China: Olympic Nation (World Travel Guide 2006)
Shanghai City Break (ABTA Magazine, August 2006)
Hong Kong City Break (ABTA Magazine, June 2006)
Boutique Luang Prabang
(Asia and Away, April 2006)
24 Hours in Bangkok (CNN Traveller, Mar/Apr 2006)
Hiroshima 60 Years On (Asia and Away, February 2006)
Shanghai: Still Sassy (SilkRoad, March 2006)
Nanjing: China’s Crossroads (TravelAgeWest, February 2006)
Managing Corporate Travel In China (Shanghai Business
Review, Jan 2006)
Commune: Great Halls of China (CNN Traveller, Nov/Dec 2005)
Mapping the Bund (CNN Traveller, July/Aug 2005)
Selling China (ABTA Magazine July/Aug 2005)
Reinventing Beijing (Travel Age West, July 2005)
Zoned-in Shanghai (Conde Nast Traveller, July 2005)
Heavenly Hangzhou (Travel Age West, June 2005)
Shanghai: The Smooth Weekend (FT: How To Spend It, May
2005)
Hainan: China’s Hawaii (Travel Age West, May 2005)
Qingdao: Preparing for 2008 (Silk Road, April 2005)
Hot 100: Shanghai (Club 21, April 2005)
Roots China (ABTA Travel Spirit, Feb/Mar 2005)
China’s Burgeoning Hotel Industry (Voyage, February 2005)
Qingdao: China’s Other Olympic City (CNN Traveller, Jan/Feb
2005)
On a Roll: Enjoying Old and New Macau (Voyage, November
2004)
Cut the Frills: Asia’s Low-cost Airlines (Voyage, November
2004)
Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong City Guides
(www.worldtravelguide.net, Nov/Dec 2004)
Qingdao: China's City of Sails (Voyage, August 2004)
In Search of the Real Shanghai (Travel Trade Gazette,
August 2004)
Developments in Shanghai’s Travel Industry (That’s
Shanghai, August 2004)
What’s New in Shanghai (ASTAnetwork, August 2004)
China Soccer Update (When Saturday Comes, August 2004)
30 Great Reasons to Visit Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos (ASTAnetwork,
August 2004)
Shanghai’s Hospitality Business Comes of Age (AmChat
Shanghai, June 2004)
24 Hours in Shanghai (CNN Traveller – May 2004)
A Greater Union; Athens: Olympic City 2004; and Portugal
Prepares to Host Euro 2004 (all featured in 2004 World Travel
Guide – published April 2004)
Expanding the Union: 10 New EU Members (ASTAnetwork
magazine – April 2004)
Hong Kong Welcomes Congress 2004 (ASTAnetwork magazine –
April 2004)
Balancing Business Travel and Health (CNN Traveller – March
2004)
Do it Like A Local: Stockholm (ABTA Travel Spirit - January
2004)
30 Great Reasons to Visit Chile in 2004 (ASTAnetwork
magazine – January 2004)
Bratislava Starts to Charm the Brits (Travel Trade Gazette
– 13 October 2003)
History of Real Madrid/Estadio Bernabeu (CNN Traveller –
September 2003)
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PRESENTATIONS
Reality Check, Travel Policies And Contagious Diseases
(Association of Corporate Travel Executives, Singapore)
Asia’s Emerging Low-Cost Carriers (Association of Corporate
Travel Executives, Beijing)
China’s Emerging Markets (HSBC Executives, Shanghai)
Shanghai as a Leisure Destination (Ritz-Carlton Luxury
Meetings Forum, Shanghai)
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BOOKS
Luxe Guide: Shanghai (resident editor - May 2008 & June 2007)
ZAGAT Survey Shanghai Restaurants & Hotels (co-editor –
2008 & 2005)
PopOut Shanghai / PopOut Hong Kong (Compass Guides, Winter
2006)
Rough Guide: First Time Latin America (contributor – 2003)
Rough Guide to Central America (El Salvador and Nicaragua
sections – 2001)
Rough Guide to the Maya World (contributor – 2001)
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BY GARY
BOWERMAN -
EXAMPLES OF PUBLISHED WORK
From Beijing With
Love:
Lan Club Shanghai
It’s 5.45pm on a blistering July Saturday – and the streets
behind Shanghai’s famous Bund are alive with an A-list society
buzz. Guangdong Road, which cuts back at a 90-degree angle from
the riverfront Bund, is forcibly closed. Military guards patrol
each side of the street as throngs of limos pulled up to the red
carpet.
Unfurling themselves from the deluxe comfort of their leather-lined,
air-conditioned carriages are a small coterie of invite-only
guests – some of whom were flown down especially from Beijing and
hosted at the nearby Westin hotel. Great fuss is made over each
one. Ushers wearing tailored black shirts wave invitees towards
the door. Usherettes indicate the uneven stepped red carpet to the
ladies wearing pointedly high heels. Welcome to the grand opening
of Lan Club Shanghai.
Read full article
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(first published: Urbanatomy, 2008)
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Chongqing: City of the Future
Tenth anniversaries are usually a cause for celebration. For
Chongqing, 2007 represented a landmark year – marking a decade
since it joined Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin as China’s fourth
city municipality, and the first one located in western China.
Once the party was over, however, China’s fastest-growing city
resumed its focus on the future, as it strives to implement an
hugely ambitious 15-year urban development plan.
The signs of progress are evident across this vast metropolis, which the
Chongqing Municipal Government has boldly called “the largest
inland city of rivers and mountains on the planet.”
Read full article
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(first published: Urbane, 2008)
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