Lisa Alpine is leading a workshop in Kenya: “Capturing the Adventure: Writing Travel Vignettes with Lisa Alpine.“ April 13-22, 2011 This daily creative writing class will be an entertaining experiment in developing your ability to describe a scene or experience in the Technicolor of the senses....

Thanks to Candy Harrington for an extremely informative presentation on Branding and Establishing Your Platform. Congratulations to many members for their recent awards, publications, and public events. Exciting  upcoming BATW programs in the works, including a joint program with ASMP.  The BATW Directories...

BATW would like to welcome our new members: Active Members: Jennie Nunn Melanie Haiken Carolyn Hansen Provisional Member: Laure Latham Associate Members: Jessica Bardoulas of Burdich Associates in San Francisco Dawn Stranne of Dawn Stranne & Associates We look forward to meeting you at upcoming...

Angel Island (photo © Bob Ecker) Thanks go to Karen Misuraca for sending this information about ways for members of the tourism industry to help San Francisco’s Angel Island: Get ready to roll up your sleeves and make a difference on Angel Island during the 2010 Tourism Cares for America...

Thanks to Jay Gordon for this fun and useful information about a resource and website that’s full of information:

The Arles Route (GR653) takes pilgrims along the Canal de Midi into Toulouse where this happy gargoyle resides in the Musée des Augustins de Toulouse. (photos © Susan Alcorn) Susan Alcorn says: “The Arles Route (GR653) takes pilgrims along the Canal de Midi into Toulouse where this...

Our wonderful program chair, Sandy Sims, not only put together the terrific and information-packed meeting with Candy Harrington, who gave lots of tips, Sandy also wrote these excellent notes about the meeting on March 20 at Books, Inc. in Opera Plaza in San Francisco.  Thank you very much, Sandy.

Congratulations to Kay Grant, who reports that she won three Awards of Merit from North American Travel Journalists Association (NATJA) and a 3rd place award in the New Mexico Press Women’s (NMPW) annual competition.

Congratulations to Louisa Preston and Carol Canter, who both won NATJA (North American Travel Journalists Association) Awards of Merit in the 2009 annual awards competition.

Congratulations go to Robert Kaufman, who, in partnership with the California Travel & Tourism Commission, was the editorial and sales director on the state’s official golf publication for 2010, “The Best of California Golf.“