Stars, Stripes & Success at Visit USA Media Marketplace & Awards 2010

We would like to thank everyone for coming to yesterday’s Visit USA Media Marketplace & Awards 2010.

Held at Park Plaza Riverbank London,  the very best travel journalists were honoured for their outstanding contribution to US media coverage over the past year.

The ten recipients of awards were:

National Newspaper
Winner: Sophie Campbell, ‘Welcome to the Path of Fun’, Daily Telegraph
Highly commendable: Steve Boggan, ‘Free as a bird on the Outer Banks’, The Times

Consumer Travel
Winner: Richard Green, Katie Bowman, Matt Rudd, Elizabeth Woodson, ‘California – The Total Guide’, Sunday Times Travel Magazine
Highly commendable: Clarissa Hyman, ‘The Eden Project’, Food & Travel Magazine

General Consumer
Winner: Will Hide, ‘Escape from Alcatraz’, Men’s Health

Broadcast
Winner: Sun Talk Radio, Lisa Minot

Regional
Winner: Tom Adair, ‘What Lies Beneath’, The Herald Magazine.

Online
Winner: Nigel Summerley, ‘Camping with Bebop in the Arizona Desert’, The Times Online

Photography
Winner: Carl Pendle, ‘The Eden Project’, Food & Travel Magazine

Travel Trade
Winner: Howard Carr, ‘Get your Kicks on Route 66’, TTG

An invitation to submit entries for next year’s awards will be issued in early 2011.