New year, new website, more adventures for all of us and for our wonderful organization, BATW, coming up. What an elegant and delicious holiday party a record number of BATW members enjoyed – many thanks to the generosity and hospitality of Associate Member, Bard Nordby, Tourisme Quebec, and his colleagues,...

Hello, Fellow Travel Writers – I’m delighted to join the BATW Board and excited to be BATW’s new Website Editor.  We plan to make the website an even more useful tool for members for showcasing stories and photographs, finding resources and ideas, discovering markets and workshops, and ever-improving...

It’s hard to believe, but we have most of 2009′s programs scheduled and confirmed. Diane LeBow, John Montgomery and the rest of you have been out there promoting us, and it has paid off. In keeping with our board’s guidelines, we have a great line up that includes professional development,...

The reach of Bay Area Travel Writers grew in 2008. This year’s programs guided us to new sights, sounds and tastes in

The well-being — both growth and decline — of tourism depends largely on the economy.  Tourism shows the same growth path as the economy. Therefore, a worldwide decline of economic performance, such as that we are experiencing now, has

Berkeley’s famous Gourmet Ghetto on North Shattuck, near where I live, continues to evolve in pleasing ways for a consumer who likes to travel and enjoy food. The roots of this food phenomenon go back to the 1960s-70s, when three neighborhood icons started a food revolution with

Lee Daley and Beverly Mann were two of four writers on a press trip to the South and Southwest India and staying at the luxurious Leela Resort and Hotels in Mumbai, Goa, Bangalore, and Kerala.  

Karen Kefauver has been hired as a bimonthly blogger for Away.com, the Orbitz-owned travel site. Her recent stories

Stephanie Levin had an article and a couple of photos published in October getaways in the Seattle Post Intelligencer titled: “It’s a hoot to scoot underwater.” The article begins: “There is nothing as spellbinding as the underwater world of tropical reefs. Given the choice, that’s...

An article on Namibia by Ginger Dingus was the cover story in the New York Daily News last month. Her photos of wildlife and orange sand dunes appeared on the cover and inside spread.