The winners of the innaugral Travel Media Awards were announced on 9 November 2015 at a glamorous awards ceremony at the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel London.

The event was attended by over 225 people, with representatives from the UK’s leading travel media and industry organisations present. The evening saw 20 publications, broadcasters, journalists and photographers collect a prestigious award, representing the very best of the UK travel media.

 The Travel Media Awards were created in recognition of the hugely influential role that today’s travel media play in the holiday or business travel decision-making process. For 2015 submissions were judged by some of the UK’s most influential travel industry figures alongside leading travel writers and editors. Categories covered a wide range of disciplines and media, from national newspaper travel sections, with separate categories for tabloid and broadsheets, consumer travel magazines, both national and regional, travel trade titles, the increasingly influential travel blogging sector and travel guide books to list just a few.

CONSUMER MAGAZINE TRAVEL SECTION OF THE YEAR

Stylist

CONSUMER TRAVEL PUBLICATION OF THE YEAR
The Sunday Times Travel Magazine

CONSUMER TRAVEL WRITER OF THE YEAR
 Mark Stratton

CUSTOMER MAGAZINE OF THE YEAR
easyJet Traveller – easyJet

NATIONAL BROADSHEET NEWSPAPER TRAVEL SECTION OF THE YEAR
The Telegraph

NATIONAL CONSUMER TRAVEL FEATURE OF THE YEAR
‘On Sky Safari Across New Zealand’ by Damian Barr in The Sunday Times Magazines

NATIONAL TABLOID NEWSPAPER TRAVEL SECTION OF THE YEAR
 Mail On Sunday

ONLINE CONSUMER TRAVEL PUBLICATION OF THE YEAR
The Telegraph & Telegraph Travel Guides app

ONLINE TRAVEL TRADE PUBLICATION OF THE YEAR
TravelMole

TRAVEL MEDIA INNOVATIVE CAMPAIGN & CONTENT OF THE YEAR
#LoveSabah campaign for Sabah Tourism and Royal Brunei Airlines by iambassador, Good Relations and Live Share Travel

REGIONAL PUBLICATION TRAVEL FEATURE OF THE YEAR
 ‘On the Road Again’ by Jon Hawkins in Escapism 

SPECIAL CONTRIBUTION AWARD
Simon Reeve

TRAVEL AND TOURISM PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD
 Julian Claxton for ‘Ugandan Children’ in N Photo Magazine 

TRAVEL BLOGGER AND VLOGGER OF THE YEAR
Kash Bhattacharya, budgettraveller.org

TRAVEL BROADCAST PROGRAMME – TV, RADIO, ONLINE
Photographing the world’s most dangerous church, Lonely Planet Traveller

TRAVEL GUIDE BOOK OF THE YEAR
Wild Guide – Southern and Eastern England
 

TRAVEL TRADE FEATURE OF THE YEAR
‘A Hair-raising Experience’ by Joanna Booth in Aspire Magazine

TRAVEL TRADE PUBLICATION OF THE YEAR
Selling Travel

TRAVEL TRADE WRITER OF THE YEAR
Sophie Griffiths, TTG

YOUNG TRAVEL WRITER OF THE YEAR
  Hannah Summers, Escapism