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Marie Barbieri - website - email
I am a freelance writer and photographer currently living in Australia. I have been featured in Greece, The Real Greek Islands, Italia!, The Italian, Italy, To Portugal, Devon Life, Take a Break, My Weekly, Reach and Australia & New Zealand magazine and can be contacted for commissions on Australia, Italy, Greece and the UK.
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Annie Bennett - email
I specialise in writing about Spain, for the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, Times, Observer and others. Books include National Geographic Traveler Madrid, and Blue Guides to Madrid and Barcelona. I have won the Spain Travel Writer of the Year and other awards.
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Gary Bowerman - email - SEE PERSONAL PAGE FOR MORE
China-based regular contributor to CNN Traveller, ABTA magazine and Urbane. Co-Editor of ZAGAT Shanghai Guide and Resident Editor for Luxe Guide Shanghai. Recently contributed to New York Times, Business Traveler, Travesias, Forbes Traveler and SilkRoad. Specialist on China and Far East, business travel, Asian travel industry, airlines, hotels and luxury travel.
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Marion Bull - website - email
Writer, photographer, from South Algerian Sahara to South Pacific, writes for Mail on Sunday, magazines, just finished Cevennes book. Published also in Guardian, Observer, Sunday Times. Fellow of The Royal Geographical Society.
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Joe Cawley - website - email
Freelance travel writer published in The Sunday Times Travel Magazine, The Times, Guardian, Observer, Independent, Mail on Sunday, Evening Standard, New York Post, Conde Nast Traveler and many others.
Contributor to guidebooks, and author of More Ketchup Than Salsa (2006). Based in Tenerife.
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Kate Calvert - website - email - SEE PERSONAL PAGE FOR MORE
Founder and editor of the Family Travel web site www.family-travel.co.uk, the UK's most extensive web resource on travel and holidays with children. Author of Harden's London Baby Book (2004). Freelance contributor to publications ranging from the Independent newspaper to Kidz magazine.
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Jane Cody - website - email
Specialist in Croatia - personalities, destinations, sailing, travel tips, business, general interest, ex-pat community and property. Regular contributor to Time Out Publications. Also published in Boat International and Abroad Magazine. Based in Split, Croatia.
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Jacqui Currie- website - email
A freelance travel writer since 2003, I have written for Home Plus Scotland, Passport and others. I write about (and also design) worldwide luxury holidays. Some recent destinations: Western US and Canada, Cuba, Morocco, Turkey, South Africa, India and European cities. Photographs available to accompany articles.
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Donna Dailey - website - email - SEE PERSONAL PAGE FOR MORE
Award-winning writer / photographer for magazines, newspapers, websites worldwide, including the Daily Mail, Times, Essentially America, Global Adventure, Holiday, Living Spain. Author of guides to Crete, Paris, Scotland, Ireland, Denver, Southwest USA. Specialist knowledge London, Spain, Greece, USA. Large photo library.
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Lucy Daltroff  - email
Long standing freelance journalist writing for the Sunday Times and the Guardian. Travel writer with published articles on destinations worldwide, including Venezuela, Cyprus, Burma and Bahamas. Regular column in the Jewish News. Lecturer in travel journalism.
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Phil Davies  - email
Ex-editor of Travel Trade Gazette, now managing editor of online travel industry news service www.TravelMole.com and editor of Carnival UK employee magazine About Ourselves. Freelance contributor to Telegraph Travel and monthly B-2-B magazine Destination UK. Also media/crisis management training, report and press release writing; travel industry consultancy and event moderator.
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Sarah Dawson - website - email
Freelance journalist writing travel, health & lifestyle features for national and international press and websites from the Guardian to Red Magazine. Special interest in India, Australia, France and Spain. Visits spas, health resorts and retreats worldwide seeking unique, holistic and downright quirky therapies. Tried detoxes from Ayurveda to the Mayr Cure. Also writes about medical tourism. Speaks reasonable French and basic Spanish.
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Angela Dewar
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Former newspaper journalist, travel editor and magazine editor, now a full-time freelance travel writer. Contributor to Conde Nast Traveller, Scottish press, in-flight magazines, Zest, Holiday Cottages, Holiday Villas, www.whatsonwhen.com. Specialist in Bhutan, Nepal, India, Thailand and Scotland but travels extensively worldwide. Covers short breaks, walking, beaches, eco-issues, food, spas.
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Sue Dobson - email
A lifetime of travelling worldwide and writing about it, combined with editing magazines, from mass market to niche titles. Now full time freelance travel writer/photographer. Writes for ABTA Magazine, World of Cruising, Choice, European CEO, Nene Valley Living, Total Business Lifestyle, arrivalguides.com. Guidebooks contributor. Author of guides to Cape Verde and Namibia. Large photo library.
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Sally Dowling - website - email
Freelance travel writer, regular contributor to Take A Break and associated titles. Winner Visit USA Travel Media Award 2006. See website for full list of work.
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Siri Elise Dybdal - website - email
Freelance writer collaborating with photographer Neil Davey (wife/husband team). Specialise in language learning holidays, adventure, wildlife, culture/music, city breaks, culinary, Norway, Scotland and Central-America. Large photo library. Featured in numerous UK and foreign lifestyle/travel magazines, newspapers and trade publications. Bilingual (English/Norwegian).
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Peter Ellegard - website - email
Features editor for Travel Trade Gazette until going freelance in 2002. Regular contributor to TTG, Selling Long Haul, ABTA Magazine and numerous consumer publications including CNN Traveller. Also supplements editor, TV presenter, award-winning photographer, author of numerous guidebooks and online guides: see Authors, Photographers, Broadcasters and Editors pages.
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Adele Evans - email
Contributes regularly to the travel pages of national magazines, newspapers and websites, and broadcasts occasionally. Specialises in Italy and France and has written, contributed to and updated many guidebooks on these countries. Other specialities include Alpine skiing, European cities and short breaks, French and Italian food and wine, European and North African spas, and the UK.

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Teresa Fisher - email
Freelance writer with a passion for Europe, food and adventure/activity holidays.
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Rebecca Ford - email - SEE PERSONAL PAGE FOR MORE - PHOTO SELECTION
I have written/contributed to many travel guides for the AA and Thomas Cook, and also write for newspapers such as The Express and The Guardian. Specialise in the UK, Europe (esp. Italy), walking, wildlife, railway journeys, WW1, eco-travel, spas, gardens, guidebooks, property, audio guides and podcasts.
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Duncan Forgan - email
Edinburgh-based news and features journalist. In the last 12 months, had travel articles on destinations including Morocco, the Highlands, Cornwall and India published in a range of papers including the Sunday Times, the Scotsman and the Edinburgh Evening News.  
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Carole French - website - email
Travel, real estate and lifestyle journalist, magazine editor since the 1980s, author of travel guides for Michelin, Dorling Kindersley, AA Publications, Time Out, Ryanair, EasyJet and Thomas Cook, and a photographer. Destinations include Cyprus, Thailand, Egypt, the Netherlands, France and Greece. Former BBC journalist and newspaper business and real estate editor. Editor of online Cyprus Life.
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Robin Gauldie - website - email
Writer, photographer, broadcaster, editor. Contributor to Sunday Telegraph (annual Insider's Guide to Greece), Sunday Mirror, Scotland on Sunday, Holiday Villas, Greece magazine, Florida magazine, and many inflight/contract magazines. Monthly column on travel insurance and air ambulance issues, International Travel Insurance Journal. Numerous guidebooks. See also - Authors and Editors pages.
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Mike Gerrard - website - email
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Writes for travel pages of The Times and for Ryanair magazine, and other newspapers and magazines in the UK and in the USA (where he has a home in Arizona). Also writes non-travel features on property, driving, food and drink and other subjects. Author of many guidebooks.
Mike Gerrard's booklet, So You Want To Be A Travel Writer?, is available in paperback and as a download at www.lulu.com/mikegerrard.
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Samantha Guerrini - email
Freelance writer, specialising in culture, cuisine, history and art, predominantly in Italy. Has published many features for various magazines, including Time Out, CNN Traveller and Summit. Involved in managing magazine projects. Fluent in French and Italian.
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Solange Hando
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Freelance travel journalist/photographer covering city breaks, soft adventure, over-50s and family holidays. Specialises in France and Europe, Tunisia, Indian subcontinent (including Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan). Contributor to Holiday Villas, Holiday Cottages, Discover Sri Lanka, Trailfinders, BBC History, women's magazines (travel), inflight and francophile publications. Member of BGTW, CIoJ, WPu.
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Nick Haslam
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I write travel, general features and book reviews for the Observer, Country Life, Skyward (JAL inflight) Times Online and Telegraph supplements. Specialities include Australia, New Zealand, South Pacific, Northern India, West Africa and Europe. I broadcast for BBC Radio 4 (FOOC) and World Service. I have a large collection of photographs on Alamy.com and Eye Ubiquitous from all parts of the world. Based in Cornwall and Brussels.
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Linda Jackson - website - email - SEE PERSONAL PAGE FOR MORE PHOTO SELECTION
Based in south east England within easy reach of central London, freelance travel writer and photographer Linda Jackson covers a wide range of topics and destinations. Linda has lived and worked in Barbados, Belgium, Dubai, France and Morocco and writes for numerous lifestyle titles, national press, on-line, in-flight, and golf publications.
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Emma Jones - email
Freelance journalist and editor published in many newsstand, in-flight and membership titles including The Independent, Recline (My Travel Airways), Walk and Co-op Traveller. Online travel features for the Daily Mail, British Airways and the Thomson Travel Group. Guidebook content for the AA, Dorling Kindersley and Hunter Travel Guides.
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Ted Jones - website - email
Freelance writer and journalist specialising in France and art. Author of The French Riviera: A Literary Guide (2007). Other recent credits include: The Lady, Guardian, Choice, Wanderlust, France, France Today, Voyageur. 
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Samantha Lee - email
Dyed in the wool Hispanofile. 200 articles published. World traveller, but my expertise is Spain in general, Andalucia in particular. Fluent Spanish. Most recent job Malaga correspondent to Viva España, with back page column 'Parting Shots'. Also 16 books (on personal development, dark fantasy and sci fi), 77 short stories (for anthologies, magazines and TV/radio), two children's TV series and a BBC play.
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Sam Lewis - website - email
Currently a regular contributor to the Times Online Travel section; ABTA and ASTA magazine and Take a Break. Previous experience includes: Travel Editor for Take a Break for over one year; Travel Editor for AOL UK for over five years; Supplements Editor for Travel Weekly for over four years. Also published work in Horse magazine. Specialist in writing for the web. See www.samanthalewis.co.uk for more examples.
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Tim Locke - website - email
Guidebook author and editor for over 20 years, encyclopaedic knowledge of England and Wales. Has worked for AA, Thomas Cook, Reader's Digest and Cadogan. Recent projects include heritage trails for Tourism South-East (with National Trust and English Heritage), Good Pub Guide, Frommers, AA Leisure Guide to the South Downs and Coast, articles for Weekends Away and Voyager, and sustainable tourism consultancy.

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John MacDonald - website - email
I write humorous travel logs, historical pieces, feature articles specializing in cultural Spain and advertising copy. My articles appear in Spanish Insights Magazine and Costa del Sol News, amongst others. My pictures have been used by the Costa del Sol News, Spanish Insights Magazine, and Devon Today; I have also done some advertising photography.
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Terry Marsh - website - email - SEE PERSONAL PAGE FOR MORE
Specialist in France and the UK, and wide knowledge of Australia. Regular contributor to Living France; author of nearly 50 books; lectures on 'Writing about Travel'.
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Robin McKelvie - website - email
Travelled to over 75 countries, taking around 10,000 photos a year and writing for over 50 publications worldwide, including the Daily Mail, Guardian, Sunday Post, CNN Traveller, Sunday Herald, Independent Magazine. Author of guides to Bermuda, Latvia, Lithuania, Croatia, Slovenia. Specialist in luxury travel, hotels, spas, walking, adventure sports, Scotland, Croatia, Slovenia, Baltic States, emerging destinations.
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David Middleton - email
I write City destination files (recently: several cities in UK, Ireland and France) or more subjective travel articles as well as general lifestyle articles. Contributor to the Independent, French Magazine, Refresh Magazine. Former contributor to Attitude with many lifestyle articles ranging from Ski Fitness to Gay Policemen.
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Caroline Mills - email
Writing travel pieces from small snippets to complete feature articles, all accompanied by my own photographs. A monthly column, small contributions and complete features for Practical Motorhome. Also published in France Magazine and other monthly magazines. Extensive picture library.
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Andrew Morris - website - email
A qualified journalist (NCTJ) with a good few years experience in the newsroom, I'm now commissioning editor and chief travel writer of Hilton Worldwide Resorts e-zine Imagine (www.imagineyourparadise.com). In addition, I write for The Independent, Metro, Belfast Telegraph and specialist publications as well as having corporate clients like the Prefecture of Zakynthos and Best of Zante Travel Services.
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Paul Murphy - website - email
Regular contributor to the travel pages of national magazines and newspapers, and author of over 40 travel guidebooks on many destinations for Michelin, AA, Fodors, Berlitz, Thomas Cook etc, also with editorial and project management experience. In addition I have a large picture library on many European and Mediterranean destinations, particularly holiday hotspots.
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Mari Nicholson - email -
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Award-winning writer. Specialist knowledge of Thailand, S.E. England, Australia, Italy, Jordan, Madeira, N.Ireland, Spain, Sweden, Chicago, New Orleans, California, Cargo-ship travel and War Grave sites. Articles/Photos in national newspapers, magazines and inflight journals.
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Rachael Pettus - email
I have written about and photographed extensive travels over the last fifteen years, most recently contributing to Rotana magazine (in Abu Dhabi), Travel News Europe (in Cyprus) and Apollo Executive Review (Cyprus Airways).
Based in Cyprus.
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Laurence Phillips - website - email -
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Award-winning author, columnist, feature writer, Laurence Phillips' France spans Languedoc to Lille. Turns his pen and compass to many European destinations. Travel Editor, Canada Post; feature writer Sunday Times and inflight magazines.
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Neil Ray - website - email
Freelance travel writer, editor & photographer based in Bangkok. Editor of “Look East On Line”. Other recent work (2007) includes book updating (Michelin), online guides, magazine features, and press releases for Bangkok Film Festival. Neil has written for the Guardian, Independent, and other UK and international publications, and is a guidebook author. See also Authors, Photographers and Editors pages.
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Carlton Reid - website - email
Writer, photographer, broadcaster, award-winning editor of bikebiz.com and publisher of bicycling magazines. Specialist in cycling, but also sports and adventure travel, as well as family holidays and zoos of the world.
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Katerina Roberts - website - email
Journalist and author working together with photographer Eric Roberts on guide books (Insight, Berlitz, Thomas Cook, AA), on-line guides (Expedia and Fastcheck), updates, pictures and articles. Specialising in Indian Ocean region (Mauritius, Reunion, Seychelles, Sri Lanka). Extensive photo library. Based in Mauritius.

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Zoe Ross
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Writer, editor and project manager for Thomas Cook, AA Publishing, Dorling Kindersley, Insight Guides and other guidebook publishers. Travel journalist with articles published in the Sunday Mirror and Holiday Villas Magazine, among others .

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Tristan Rutherford & Kathryn Tomasetti - website - email
We've written/updated over 30 guidebooks for Time Out, Rough Guides, DK and Thomas Cook from Shanghai to Lisbon. Feature writers for Sunday Times Travel Magazine, Observer, Independent and various inflights worldwide. 300dpi Nikon DX40 photos available with copy. Mediterranean a speciality, but as we often work together we can cover almost anywhere, fast.

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Roger St. Pierre - website - email
Writer and broadcaster. 116 countries visited on five continents. Freelance editor of both Holiday & Leisure World and De Vere Magazine. Specialities: motoring, worldwide cruising, river boating, cycling, gourmet travel, food & drink, culture, battlefield tourism, short breaks worldwide, North America, and all of Europe, including UK and Ireland.

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Andrew Sanger - website - contact - SEE PERSONAL PAGE FOR MORE
Over
20 years freelancing for national newspapers, magazines and now websites. Award-winner. Author of some 30 guidebooks. Translated into several languages. Own travel website. Specialities: France - Ireland - Israel - vegetarian travel - Mediterranean resorts.
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Cathy Smith - website - email
Recent awards: Best London Article; Canada Travel Awards Best Consumer Travel Writer (Finalist); Naples International Journalism Award. Writer/photographer for UK nationals, regionals and magazines, in-flight magazines and overseas press. Author of "How to Write and Sell Travel Articles". Knows Canada and Italy very well.
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Duncan JD Smith - website - email - SEE PERSONAL PAGE FOR MORE
Self-styled 'Urban Explorer', travel guide writer, and photojournalist. Currently writing/photographing a series of guidebooks to the hidden corners of European capitals: Vienna, Budapest, Prague, Berlin, Paris. Commissioned articles and photo stock.
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Nicola Smith - email
A freelance journalist with travel features published in The Times, Sainsbury's magazine and World (New Zealand). Regular contributor to Cornwall Tod