The British Guild of Travel Writers turned 50 last week and to celebrate, the Guild threw a fantastic party in the stunning top floor restaurant of The Battery in Canary Wharf. Wine and nibbles were consumed in intense fashion whilst guests overlooked a sun drenched Thames far below; a fitting setting perhaps for the dawn of the Guild’s next half-century.
The BGTW remains a key establishment of support for individual freelancers and those who work full-time in all parts of the travel industry. It provides travel writers, photographers, editors and broadcasters with an opportunity to meet like minded travellers and as put so succinctly by its Chairman Melissa Shales, ‘the Guild is the office water dispenser, for those without an office’.