Travcom

Members’ Registration
2009

KEY:

— Writer

 — Photographer

 — Travel Industry representatives

 — Public Relations – National Tourism Office - Marketing

MARIA ALOMAJAN is an Auckland based freelance writer. Although new to travel writing she is
neither new to travel nor writing and has a background in PR, adverting, marketing and the performing arts.

Ph: (09) 480 8048 Mob: 021 505 907 email: m@internet.co.nz

BRUCE ANSLEY in the last quarter-century or so, award-winning journalist Bruce Ansley has written
for newspapers in both islands of New Zealand, as well as overseas, with titles as diverse as the
Christchurch Star, the Otago Daily Times and the London Sun. He has worked for radio, and on television
shows such as A Week of It and McPhail and Gadsby. He was a staff writer for the NZ Listener magazine
until the end of 2006, when he left to become both canal voyager in France and full-time writer of books. His
last book was Stoned on Duty (Hodder Moa Beckett), a tale of intrigue involving the police undercover war
on drugs. Bruce has won fellowships to both Oxford and Cambridge universities. He is a one-time
crayfisherman and has had a lifetime affair with boats of all kinds, from dinghies to sailing boats, and with his
wife Sally spent a couple of months a year over several years living on a launch in Westhaven, Auckland
He still likes nothing better than messing about in his vintage motor-sailer on the cerulean waters of Golden
Bay. He and Sally have been married for a very long time, and despite the events described in A Long Slow
Affair of the Heart, remain so. They have twin sons living in London and Auckland and another son living in
Sydeny, while they remain doggedly in Christchurch.

58 Colenso Street, CHRISTCHURCH. Mob: 021 66 88 21

STACEY ANYAN is a staff writer at North & South magazine. After gaining an MA in Psychology at the
University of Auckland, she based herself in London for five years, where she worked as a primary school
teacher and backpacked extensively during school holidays. Acquiring a mortgage upon her return has
limited her overseas travel but being Aotearoa’s biggest patriot, she’s not too worried. Stacey won the
Qantas Media Awards Junior Magazine Feature Writer category in 2008.

North & South, Private Bag 92512, Wellesley Street, AUCKLAND. Ph: (09) 308 2754 email:
sanyan@acpmagazines.co.nz

 PHILIPPA ASHFORD has worked in tourism for 30 years principally in Australia and New Zealand,
but also in the United Kingdom and Singapore. Since the formation of her company, Philippa Ashford and
Associates, in 1988, Philippa has specialised in national tourist office representations. She currently handles
the Anaheim Orange County Visitor & Convention Bureau of California USA, for the New Zealand market.
Her role as a marketing consultant includes promotional work bringing her into constant contact with the
New Zealand media.

P.O.Box 25-482, AUCKLAND. Mob: 021 575260, email: pashford@iconz.co.nz

BRETT ATKINSON is a fulltime travel writer who specialises in adventure travel, unusual destinations,
and surprising angles on more well known destinations. Recent stories have included bathing in beer in the
Czech Republic, listening to World music in the Borneo rainforest, and exploring the islands of Mozambique.
His work appears regularly in New Zealand publications including Inspire, World, the Listener and the Herald
on Sunday. Brett also writes guidebooks for Lonely Planet, and has updated books across four continents
for the world’s biggest travel publisher. He also reviews Auckland’s restaurants and bars for
www.viewauckland.co.nz and is co-author of Church Road – A Love Affair With Wine, a history of one of
New Zealand’s oldest wineries.

P.O. Box 26-449, Epsom, AUCKLAND. Ph/Fax: (09) 630 6351, mob: 021 0788 649, email:
scribe@woosh.co.nz

 KIM BAKER - Although having no formal training or experience in photography apart from some
natural ability – so I have been told, I do have a genuine interest in pursuing a career in Travel Writing
journalism. I make the most of my current position in travel to take advantage of what is on offer to capture.
After returning this year from living in China for 14 months, I place this country on the top of my list of
Favourite County’s – it is a photographer’s paradise for people and scenery.

Email: nzkimmie@hotmail.com

 MONIQUE BALVERT O’CONNOR is a Tauranga-based writer who has 20 years experience,

armed with an MA (honours) degree and a diploma of journalism she began her career as a newspaper
journalist. As a freelancer she has written for a host of leading New Zealand publications such as Next,
North and South, Your Home and Garden, NZ House and Garden and NZ Gardener.

15 Pillans Road, TAURANGA. Ph: (07) 5700113 Mob: 0274 575 700 email: writestuff@xtra.co.nz

MARK BARRATT-BOYES is a freelance writer, editor and marketing communications practitioner. He

specialises in travel and transport. He is a sub-editor and staff writer for Destinations Media, which publishes
the quarterly travel magazine Destinations, and for VIP Publications. It publishes Professional Skipper, the
journal of the New Zealand maritime transport industry, which includes charter boats, ferries, jet boats and
tourism adventure boats such as Whale Watch Kaikoura. He has also been a regular contributor to
Signature magazine, Southern Skies, Golden Wing, Boating New Zealand and Style.

7B Stafson Lane, Te Atatu Peninsula, AUCKLAND. Ph: (09) 834 9476, email mark.bb@thewritestuff.co.nz

LAUREN BARTLETT – Journalist, Inspire, Idealog and Good and Marketing Manager, AUT Media.
Lauren has worked in the media industry, in some form, for five years, including freelancing for local and
international publications. She holds a Bachelor of Communications with a major in Journalism and is the
author of a guide to Auckland sold in the UK and Canada. In 2006, Lauren received the prestigious
Technos Award to travel and write in Japan. Lauren is passionate about travel, and counts her favourite
destinations (so far) as Madagascar, Shanghai and Ireland.

Ph: (09) 966 1072 email: Lauren@hbmedia.co.nz

CHRIS BARTON

C/- NZ Herald, P O Box 32, Auckland email: chris.barton@nzherald.co.nz www.nzherald.co.nz

JOE BENNETT – Born in Eastbourne, England in 1957 and educated in Brighton and Cambridge,
Joe Bennett taught English in a variety of countries before retiring from the classroom in 1998 to make a
living by writing. His newspaper columns are syndicated around the country and he’s won the Qantas Media
Awards Columnist of the Year three times. His travel books on New Zealand, Britain and, most recently,
Chinese underpant manufacturing have been international bestsellers. He lives with a dog in Lyttelton and
expects to stay there.

Website: www.joebennett.co.nz

 SHARRON BENNETT is a Dunedin-based photographer offering over 20 years experience in the

photography industry. Sharron has worked as a Press Photographer in New Zealand, University
Photographer at Cornell in New York and as Photographer and Picture Editor in London. Sharron's work
appears in numerous magazines,(Life & Leisure ,North & South, Next) on websites, in promotional and
advertising material and in National and International newspapers.

Ph: (03) 467 5550 Mob: 021 1892 784 email: Sharron@es.co.nz website: www.sharronbennett.co.nz

 ELEANOR BLACK is an Auckland-based writer.

Ph: (09) 574 5214 email: eleanorlblack@gmail.com website: www.pundit.co.nz

 MARTEN BLUMEN – Grand Prize, 2008 Banff Mountain Photography Competition, winner Marten
Blumen is known for his capacity and devotion to produce quality adventure, outdoor and nature images in
tough conditions. Combining a world-class digital skill-set, an artists eye for light and an inquisitive mind, he
regularly produces unique outcomes. Publications and companies including National Geographic, Outside
China, NZ Geographic, Crux, Wilderness, Climber, NZ Alpine Journal, Climbing.com and Mountain
Equipment Co-op have used his photographs. His stock photography is represented by Hedgehog House
and he is currently designing photo treks with World Expeditions. Blumen regularly seeks new images away
from his studio in Auckland, New Zealand.

P O Box 105-958, AUCKLAND 1143. Mob: 0211 560 309 email: marty@martyblumen.com website:
www.martyblumen.com

 SHANE BOOCOCK is the author of 'Auckland, A City Guide For City People' published by New
Holland in 2003. His articles have appeared in the NZ Herald, SeaSpray Magazine, NZ House and Garden,
On Holiday and Amex Platinum Magazines. In 2004, Shane launched TravMedia.com in New Zealand – a
leading online press release distribution service for Travel Media and PR Professionals. Recently, a sister
site for TravMedia.com has seen the launch of Food4Media.com – a new online media service aimed at all
aspects of the F & B industry. Registration is free.

5 Putiki Rd, Ostend, Waiheke Island, AUCKLAND 1240. Ph: (09) 372 2525. Email:
Shane.boocock@travmedia.com

 GEOFF BOXALL has had a lifelong interest in travel and photography. A keen amateur
photographer, he has exhibited his work in many exhibitions and he currently has an imaged featured in the
PSNZ Touring Exhibition sponsored by the National Bank. His particular photographic interests include
travel, landscape and architectural photography. His work has earned him APSNZ honours. A former
professional technical writer at the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand, Geoff has had a number of travel
articles published in newspapers over the years. These relate to some of the numerous countries he has
visited, which now total more than 70. He particularly enjoys visiting European countries and has recently
returned from Bulgaria and Romania. Geoff has made several travel and photographic presentations to
various clubs including the Wellington Overland Club, Rotary, Probus and U3A. He is also the editor of the
Wellington Property Investor magazine for which he writes regular articles.

P O Box 38-659, Wellington Mail Centre. Ph: (04) 235 9943 email: geoff_boxall@xtra.co.nz

NICOLA BOYES is a freelance writer currently based Napier, after returning home from travelling
through Europe and Asia. Her travels have taken her from Angkor Wat in Cambodia to a prison cell on New
Year's Eve in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She has explored the beauty of the Balkans from Belgrade to Sarajevo
and most recently walked over the Pyrenees before limping in to Logrono, Spain, for Fiestas de San Mateo
and a friend's wedding. She has worked for The Irish Times as an online journalist and been a staff journalist
at New Zealand newspapers including, The Sunday Star Times, New Zealand Herald, Waikato Times and
The Manawatu Standard.

021 293 5267 Email: Nicola.boyes@gmail.com

LINDA BRETT is an Auckland-based writer.

linda.brett@paradise.net.nz

 SUSAN BUCKLAND’s travel writing and photographs are published in New Zealand and
overseas magazines and newspapers. She has twice won the Qantas Media Awards Best Travel Column,
her travel columns being first in the Sunday Star Times and later in he New Zealand Herald. She has
presented Radio NZ and Radio Network travel programmes and TVOne and TV3 travel reports, edited the
Maverick Travel Guide to New Zealand (Pelican - USA) and written Amazing New Zealand (Penguin).
President of New Zealand Travel Communicators 1999 and 2000.

P.O.Box 99-756 Newmarket, AUCKLAND. Ph: (09) 520 3523, mob 0274 766 421, email
susan.buckland@xtra.co.nz

 PETER BUSH is a Wellington-based photographer.

181 Severn Street, Island Bay, WELLINGTON. Mob: 0274 491 477, Fax: (04) 383 7303, email:
p.j.bush@xtra.co.nz

MIKE CARTLIDGE is a Wellington-based writer and author. He has published a number of novels
and is a past winner of the Richard Webster Popular Fiction Award, he has published articles on subjects
ranging from business (and particularly the use of e-business and the internet) to humour, in magazines
ranging from Management to the Listener. His travel writing has appeared in numerous New Zealand
newspapers including the Dominion Post, The Christchurch Press and the Waikato Times.

P O Box 19229, Courtenay place, WELLINGTON. Email: mike.cartlidge@gmail.com

 CHRIS CHAPMAN has travelled widely in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, and writes about travel
experiences and destinations beyond conventional travel itineraries. His articles and photographs have
appeared in the Otago Daily Times , The Evening Post, The Press and The Marlborough Express. Chris was
a finalist in the 2003 Cathay Pacific Awards for the ‘Best Article about a Journey’ category.

Ph: (021) 133 6413, email cjchapman@rocketmail.com

 AMOS CHAPPLE started his career in newspapers. While working as a press photographer at
the New Zealand Herald he was named Junior Photographer of the Year in 2003 as well as Environment
photographer of the Year in 2006, at the Qantas Media Awards. Since 2006 he has worked full-time for the
Out Place Publishing project, photographing UNESCO World Heritage sites around the world. He has
photographed in more than 35 counties including Uzbekistan, Belarus, PNG and Jordan. He has a
particular love for Russia and the former Soviet Union states.

Mob: 021 0327 839 email: amos.chapple@gmail.com

ROBIN CHARTERIS has been the editor of the Otago Daily Times since 1997 and has travelled
extensively through Europe, Central Asia and Asia. Robin has written Insight Guides, for the Los Angeles
Times, The Independent (UK), Sydney Morning Herald, Age, Brisbane Courier-Mail and The New Zealand
Herald. Since winning the Mobil Overseas Travel Award in journalism in 1973 he has travelled extensively.
He served two terms as London correspondent for New Zealand Associated Press (NZ Herald, Evening
Post, Press, ODT). Winner of several national journalism prizes for news, sports, economic and feature
writing, Robin was commended in the inaugural Travcom Travel Writer Of The Year contest in 1992, then
newspaper section winner and overall winner of the 1993 contest and newspaper section winner in 1996,
Travcom Newspaper Travel Writer of the Year winner in 2000 and also overall Travcom Travel Writer of the
Year in 2000.
3 Howard Street, Colinswood, DUNEDIN. Ph/Fax: (03) 454 5562, mob 025 201 6895, email
robincharteris@hotmail.com

 JO LASCELLES CHESTER is multi-faceted artist working with various processes; printmaking,

photography and painting. She initially trained as a graphic artist, worked in design and photography and
later moved into teaching. She has been awarded Photographic Awards, one that is stored as a slice of
photographic history in Turnbull House in Wellington this was awarded as the Agfa-Listener Time Frame
Photographic competition 1989.

271 Kokopu Road, RD 9, WHANGAREI. Ph: (09) 434 6190 Mob: 021 187 0201 Fax: (09) 434 6192
email: ishtar@xtra.co.nz website: under construction www.redbubble.com and www.photosales.co.nz

 LYNN CLAYTON is a past president of the Photographic Society of New Zealand. She has been
passionate about photography for over twelve years; her love of capturing unique images around New
Zealand and the world has transformed from a hobby to a career. Lynn is currently involved in photo shoots
for major corporate's, architects and designers ,commissions as well as outdoor family portraiture. Multiple
award winner and author. Lynn also teaches basic photography to small groups either in an office or at
home. Lynn has some published stories at www.fourcorners.co.nz Also she is published in the book ‘Tibet
in the Eyes of 100 Photographers’. Lynn also has two children's books - Sam's Day in the City and Amy's
Day in the Country published by Penguin. Twice Lynn has been an invited photographer to China to
photograph with the CPA. Lynn has digital photos available on N.Z. Tibet, Xinjiang Province, New York
City, Death Valley, the and Australian Outback amongst her collection. Lynn's latest book 'Serendipity' is
online at http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/invited/267088/fd31e1926a136edff1b08dfdf4e5736d
Check it out and enjoy....... The perfect gift!

Apartment #404Oakridge, 10 Middleton Road, Newmarket, Auckland. Ph: (09) 522 8467 Mob 021 404560
email: lynnmc@ihug.co.nz website; www.lynnclaytonphotography.com

DIANA CLEMENT is an Auckland-based writer who has travelled extensively in Latin America,
Europe, Asia and Africa. Most recently my travel writing for the NZ Herald and Herald on Sunday has
focused on travelling with children. My recent commissions included a well-researched piece about the
hot springs of New Zealand, a weekend in the once thriving spa-town of Te Aroha, and Rotorua without
breaking the bank. I'm interested in writing about unusual holidays with children, how to relive your
childhood memories with the latest generation , and ways to save money when travelling. Other than travel
writing, I write predominately about Money and Property Investing. Two years ago I set up the JourNZ
network for journalists, which now has more than 400 Kiwi journalists as members. In 2006 I was a speaker
at the inaugural Freelance Conference, and in 2007 I will be chairing the conference.

43 Roslyn Terrace, Devonport, Auckland. Tel: 09 4466931. Mobile: 021 353 671. Email:
Diana@wordfusion.com Skype: dianac02 Website: www.wordfusion.com

 CHRIS COAD is a Wellington based photographer.

P O Box 7002, Wellington. Ph: (04) 473 0301 Mob: 027 4420005 Fax: (04) 473 0304 email:
Chrisc@xtra.co.nz website: www.chriscoad.co.nz

HUGH CONLY is a Christchurch-based writer.

Ph: (03) 943 2817 Fax: (03) 364 8288 email: hugh.conly@press.co.nz

 BELINDA COOKE heads up New Holland Publishers (NZ) Ltd, one of New Zealand’s fastest-
growing non-fiction publishers with a list of quality illustrated titles that focuses on travel, tourism, history,
gift, reference, food, wine, gardening, outdoor pursuits and natural history.

P.O.Box 34 321 Birkenhead, AUCKLAND. Ph: (09) 481 0444, Fax: (09) 480 0129, email
bcooke@nhp.co.nz. Website: www.newhollandpublishers.co.nz

 WENDY COOPER has spent the majority of her working life in the travel/aviation/tourism industry.
A Diploma in Travel Writing / Photography helped her focus her interest and she is competing a Diploma of
Professional Photography to further enhance these skills. Wendy prefers to write from a descriptive and
often historical perspective, drawing the reader into the experience. These articles appear in ‘inhouse’
travel publications. Environmental portraiture, landscapes and cultural events are her preferred
photographic topics with images on file with a local photo library.

Ph / Fax: (09) 278 4919 Email: newgrange@slingshot.co.nz

 MARK COOTE is a Wellington based freelance photographer. His experience and

professionalism are valued by high profile clients in New Zealand and internationally. With his relaxed and
friendly style, Mark fulfils client briefs on all levels – quality, creativity, timeliness and price. He has travelled
and photographed in more than 35 countries, his favourites being India, Yemen, Uzbekistan, Cambodia and
France. He has had a number of travel articles published from this work and is available for assignments
anywhere.

P O Box 6833, WELLINGTON 6141. Ph: (04) 904 2071 Mob: 027 439 9004 email: mark@markcoote.com
website: www.markcoote.com

 SUE COURTNEY is an Auckland-base writer specialising in wine. Her photographs have

accompanied her articles in the Rodney Times, Urban and Country, Growing Today Magazine, Third Age
New Zealand and FoodService Magazine and all her articles on the Internet. New to travel writing, waiting
for her first focussed travel piece to appear in print, her passion includes driving in New Zealand off the
beaten track.

Email winetaster@clear.net.nz, Website: www.wineoftheweek.com

LAURA CROOKS is an Auckland based writer and works for AA Directions Magazine.

1131 Anne Street, Devonport, AUCKLAND. Mob: 021 141 0841 email: lcrooks@aa.co.nz

 PAUL DALY is a photographer from Christchurch who finds himself travelling the country and
globe working for a variety of interesting clients.

P O Box 13 411, Armagh Street, CHRISTCHURCH 8141, Ph: 0800 35 74 74 Mob: 027 435 7474 email:
paul@nzpanorama.com website: www.nzpanorama.com

LINDSEY DAWSON is a writer who lives north of Auckland at Hatfields Beach. She gets a buzz
out of strange and ancient places like the temple at Karnak and the statue-scattered slopes of Easter Island
and delights in travel experiences that offer the unexpected. But mostly her life is more local as she does a
range of freelancing jobs, runs writing seminars, messes about with her sketchbook and spends far too
much time o the Net. She has been launch editor of a range of newsstand magazines including More, Next
and Grace and has also edited contract magazines for commercial clients. Lindsey has had six books
published, including two novels, and personally published her seventh, a nature-based gift book, with a
photographer friend.

Mob: 021 159 9309 email: lindseyoutloud@xtra.co.nz website: www.lindseydawson.com

 PETER DE GRAAF is a Northland-based writer and photographer. His favourite places include
Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, the Middle East and the more obscure corners of New Zealand. In the 2008
Qantas Awards he was named travel columnist of the year for a series of columns about Northland’s quirky
and out-of-the-way attractions, published in the Northern Advocate.

2/5 Dundas Road, WHANGAREI. Mob: 021 78 38 58 email: peter_de_graaf@yahoo.com

 JENNY DEY APSNZ is a Wellington based photographer. She is a past president and life member
of the Wellington Photographic Society. China is Jenny’s main travel destination and she has visited this
country many times.

P O Box 9897, WELLINGTON. Mob: 027 28 000 33 email: jennydey@xtra.co.nz

JOANNE DOHERTY is the author of Mind Y’self Now, Jewarne, published by Steele Roberts
Publishers 2008. Mind Y’Self Now Jewarne is a tale about life in Donegal and Dublin. It records Joanne
Doherty’s view of contemporary rural and urban Irish life, Ireland’s ancient and often painful history, its future
hopes and her great love and delight in the ‘craic’ enjoyed by its people – no word in English can sum up the
magic, the fun, the conversation, music and commotion of Irish people ‘being together’ – craic says it all.

P O Box 38655, WELLINGTON MAIL CENTRE. Ph: (04) 562 6162 email: dohertyjoanne@xtra.co.nz
website: www.joannedoherty.co.nz

LINDA DONALD is part of a husband and wife writer and photography team. Linda is an
Auckland-based freelance writer and book reviewer who has travelled extensively, particularly in New
Zealand, Australia, the East and France. She has published articles on subjects ranging from business to
lifestyle, health and travel.

Email: ldonald@abdonaldltd.co.nz website: www.imagesandwords.co.nz

JUDITH DOYLE is a Wellington freelance journalist specialising in travel, outdoor pursuits and the
arts. Her features and photographs are published in New Zealand publications and occasionally in Britain
and Australia where she worked for several years. She has won the NZ Travel Writers' Award; and a PATA
Gold Award, travel story category. Her first book Pay for your Travel by Writing, a NZ Guide to Travel
Writing was published in 1997 and her second, Older and Bolder in 2004.

Apartment 3, 14 Oriental Terrace, Oriental Bay, WELLINGTON 6001. Ph: (04) 384 9454, Fax: (04) 385
6951, email: judithdoyle@paradise.net.nz

WENDY DUNLOP is a freelance writer specialising in travel, property and historic material. She
has contributed to New Zealand Geographic, Traveltrade, The Press, The Christchurch Star and various in-
house travel industry publications. She also tutors part-time at the New Zealand School of Travel and
Tourism and is Travcom's South Island Representative.

56a Colombo St or PO Box 12199, CHRISTCHURCH. Ph: (03) 960 4467, Fax: (03) 960 4468, email:
wmdunlop@xtra.co.nz

JIM EAGLES Travel Editor, NZ Herald

c/- New Zealand Herald, P O Box 32, AUCKLAND. Phone: (09) 373 6400 ext 8242 email:
travel@nzherald.co.nz

NICOLA EDMONDS is a Wellington-based editorial photographer, widely experienced in a

range of food, portrait, travel and lifestyle photography. Available for assignments in any location.
Stock images available.
PO BOX 9979, WELLINGTON. Mob: 0064 27 2246468 www.nicolaedmonds.com
nicola@nicolaedmonds.com

 JENNY & TONY ENDERBY are freelance travel writers and award-winning photographers
specialising in ecotourism, adventure, natural history and the underwater world. Recent trips include a 7-day
Transcenic NZ train journey and cycling the Central Otago Rail Trail. They recently visited Argentina with
close encounters of whales, dolphins, elephant seals and sea lions on the Valdes Peninsula, and explored
the Ibera Wetlands. They also dived the reefs and lagoon of Aitutaki and Rarotonga in the Cook Islands.
They have completed six books and regularly contribute to Seaspray, Dive NZ, Forest and Bird,
Christchurch Press and many other publications.

P O Box 139 Leigh 0947, New Zealand. Ph: (09) 422 6127, mob 021 167 1524, email
enderby@enderby.co.nz

LEANNE ERCEG has worked in the travel/tourism industry for 7 years as an independent
contractor, guide and travel broker. She has personally travelled regularly to Europe, USA and Asia and the
South Pacific. Leanne is an Auckland based freelance writer and PR agent to Konica Minolta Offshore
Powerboat Race Team.

Email: Leanne.erceg@xtra.co.nz Mob: 021 825821

 TODD EYRE is an Auckland-based photographer.

Mob: 021 592269 www.toddeyre.com

 ROB FERGUSON has published two books on Spirituality. A new travel writer, Rob has lived in
Tonga and Canada, and now travels regularly to Kyushu, Japan to visit family and write about rural Japan,
its landscape, food and people.

302 Hoon Hay Road, CHRISTCHURCH 8025. Ph: (03) 942 2848 Mob: 021 104 4582 email:
fergies@paradise.net.nz web: www.rafter.co.nz

BETTE FLAGLER most likes to write stories of travel, adventure and interesting people. In New
Zealand, her work has appeared in Unlimited, NZ Life & Leisure, PRODESIGN, North & South, Next and a
smattering of other publications. She is the author of Adventure Guide New Zealand (US-based Hunter
Publishing) and frequently writes for New Zealand magazine, a publication written here, but aimed at the
North American market. Bette likes to travel places that challenge her and that find her nearer the edge
than in the centre – she lived in Mexico for a couple of years, sailed to New Zealand on a yacht, has horse-
trekked across the Okavango Delta and in 2005, was chosen by Antarctica New Zealand to travel to the ice.
Bette also frequently writes about science and New Zealand business.

Flicka Ltd, PO Box 12-029, Thorndon, WELLINGTON. Ph: (04) 499 5858, MOB: 021 956 122. Email:
bette@flicka.co.nz

 JAMES FRANKHAM is an award-winning film-maker, photographer and author specialising in

natural history and indigenous peoples. His photos have been published and exhibited from Australia to
Sweden and the travelogue Wildlands - an account of two years traveling the world aboard a ship .was
released internationally in November 2003. A one-hour documentary about tribalism in the PNG Highlands is
being sold worldwide and another about Afghan refugees is nearing completion.

29 Rugby Rd, Birkenhead, AUCKLAND. Mob 021 775 423, email james@frankham.co.nz
web www.wildlands.cc james@frankham.co.nz

STU FREEMAN is managing director of ProMag Publishing, publisher of Meeting Newz and
Travelinc Magazines. ProMag also owns and manages the Convene Auckland Exhibition and Pacific Area
Incentives and Conferences Expo.

P.O. Box 60-154 Titirangi, AUCKLAND. Ph: (09) 818-7807, (025) 842863, Fax: (09) 818-7864, email
stu@promag.co.nz web: www.promag.co.nz

 BRYONY GAMMON - Small Luxury Hotels of the World is an exclusive brand of more than 450
independent, luxury hotels offering an infinite variety of memorable experiences in 70 countries. Whether
guests are seeking a blissful spa retreat, the rustic charm of a country villa, a secluded beachside resort, the
refined splendour of an old English country house or a sanctuary hidden amid the vibrant atmosphere of a
bustling city centre, Small Luxury Hotels of the World offers only the very best. Reservations can be made
at any Small Luxury Hotel of the World by calling toll-free 0800 441 098 (New Zealand) or +65 6232 5060.
Travel agents need only remember the GDS code LX for LuXury.

Suite 83, Chatswood Village, 47 Neridah Street, Chatswood, Sydney, AUSTRALIA. Ph: (00612) 9468 7106
Mob: (0061) 406679998 email: bryony.gammon@slh.com website: www.slh.com

 JILL GARDNER is the NZ representative for Hawaii Tourism Oceania.

Hawaii Tourism Representative, Level 7, Citibank Building, 23 Customs St East, AUCKLAND. Ph: (09)
4895153, Fax (09) 4895250 email: jgardner@hawaiitourism.co.nz website: www.hawaiitourism.co.nz

 ROSS GIBLIN is a senior photographer with the Dominion Post covering all manner of assignments
for the paper which occasionally includes travel pieces.

Dominion Post, 40 Boulcott Street, WELLINGTON. Mob: 021 701 860 Fax: (04) 474 0350 email:
ross.giblin@dompost.co.nz

 SUSAN GIBSON is the Communications Manager of Heritage Hotel Management. She won the
PRINZ Corporate Communications Award 2004 and has been a NBR Sponsorship Awards finalist for the
past three years. She has a background in PR, travel, events and writing. She serves on the Travcom
executive committee and is also a member of the NZ Writers Guild and WIFT.

Heritage Hotel Management, P.O Box 3904 AUCKLAND. Ph: (09) 979 7566, Mob: 021 855645, Fax: (09)
303 0152, email susang@heritagehotels.co.nz website: www.heritagehotels.co.nz

 TONI GILLAN is a Marlborough based freelance journalist, photographer and creative writer who
specialises in travel, wine, food and lifestyle writing and commissions. Writing in NZ for fifteen years, she
has a background in retail and wholesale travel, tourism, PR and, in recent times, hotel and winery
ownership and management. Her features, profiles, and reviews have in the last year predominantly been
published in Wild Tomato magazine but she has contributed to The Marlborough Express, Nelson Mail,
Cuisine, NZ Wine, NZ Inside and The Herald Sunday Magazine. She is also a regular contributor
to Café and Eating out Magazine. Toni has travelled extensively around the globe immersed in
environments that contrast with her NZ domicile. Based at her studio gallery in Blenheim, in her other life
she supports writers and artists by offering residency's/and or retreats to creative, positive artistic people
who wish to write or paint in a Marlborough environ

P O Box 482, BLENHEIM. Ph: (03) 579 4604, Mobile: 021 448 757 Fax: (03) 579 4605,.email
thegillans@xtra.co.nz

 KAREN GOA is an Auckland freelance journalist, photographer and creative writer. She's been a
winner in the Cathay Pacific Travel Media Awards (2008) and a finalist (2006). Her features and
photographs have been published in New Zealand (New Zealand Herald, Dominion Post, Listener, Next,
Panorama, Pacific Wave, AA Directions, AA Traveller, Cuisine, dish, onHoliday, North&South), Unlimited
and in the US (Traveler’s India) and Australia (Two Wheels, Homes&Living Western Australia). Karen's
travel book One Flat Coyote on the Centre Line (New Hollland Publishers 2006) won a Highly Commended
award at the Whitcoulls Travcom Travel Book of the Year Awards. She is also the co-author of Bitten by the
Bullet: Motorcycle Adventures in India (New Holland Publishers 2002).

13 Calman Place, Birkenhead, AUCKLAND. Ph: (09) 418 4408,.email kgoa@kiwilink.co.nz web
www.karengoa.com www.fourcorners.co.nz/new-zealand/karen-goa

JAN HALL worked for many years as a mental health nurse. Writing, travel and amateur photography
have been interests to pursue rather than career option. An introductory course to travel writing in January
2009 provided the impetus to plan travel, write and see with different eyes. Overseas destinations of
intrigue are North Africa, Italy and India and NZ provides many alternatives for continued exploration. I am
yet to be published. Watch this space.
11 Mostyn Street, Kingsland, AUCKLAND 1021. Ph: (09) 368 4456 Mob: 027 237 9369 email:
jmhsja@gmail.com

 KAY HANNAM specializes in naturist travel and enjoys an endless summer by visiting Europe in
our winter, finding interesting people and places, especially in the south of France. Her naturist travel
articles are eagerly accepted by Internaturally, H&E Naturist, Naturist Life and the Australian Naturist.
Holidays NZnaturally a guide to clothes free holiday destinations in New Zealand provides up to date
information for the travelling naturist and has been published by Kay for eight years. She is currently Editor
of gonatural, the magazine for freedom lovers and those who embrace the naturist lifestyle.

2704 SH63, Wairau Valley, RD 1, BLENHEIM 7271. Ph: (03) 572 2681 Mob: 021 326 199 email:
info@naturist.co.nz website: www.naturist.co.nz

 KIRK HARGREAVES is a Christchurch-based photographer with the Christchurch Press. He was

a finalist author in the Montana Book Awards in 1999 Lifestyle non fiction category for his book On the Next
Tide; Portraits and Anecdotes of New Zealand Fishermen and Women. His favourite countries are India,
India, India !!! Sri Lanka, Indonesia, the pacific islands or anywhere else with good surf.

C/- the Press, Private Bag, CHRISTCHURCH. Ph: (03) 9432 623 Mob: 021 63 4492 email:
kirk.hargreaves@press.co.nz

JENNY HAWORTH is a freelance journalist and creative writer. As a journalist she specialises in
travel, the fishing industry, heritage, the outdoors, food and the arts. Recent outlets include the Australian,
AA Directions, Dominion-Post, Heritage,( the Historic Places Trust magazine), Destinations, Christchurch
Press, MCC, NZ Doctor, NZ Woman’s Weekly, NZ Herald, New Zealand, Seafood New Zealand and Silver
Kris. Publications: Her first novel Hobsons' Chance was published in 2003 and her second Lost Souls
(Hazard) tells the story of New Zealand soldiers in the Boer War. Her third novel Portrait Tales is complete
and under assessment. She is also the author of New Zealand Past and Present (Bookwise, Australia) The
Art of War; New Zealand artists in the Field 1939-1945 and Tides of Change: the story of the Federation of
Commercial Fishermen. Hooked, the story of New Zealand Fishing Industry was completed for David
Johnson in 2004. She is currently working on a history of salmon farming and fourth novel.

302 Lake Terrace Road, Shirley, CHRISTCHURCH. 8061 Ph/Fax: (03) 385 4754, Fax: (03) 385
4756, email: jjhaworth@xtra.co.nz

ANABRIGHT HAY specialises in historical and cultural travel articles with a special interest in
North Africa, Southeast Asia and Europe. Recent articles have featured Morocco, Tunisia, Hong Kong, Laos
and Vietnam. Anabright has been published in a variety of New Zealand newspapers and magazines.

Flat 5, 168 Tinakori Rd, Thorndon, WELLINGTON. Ph: (04) 472 0855, email abyronh@xtra.co.nz

 DEBBIE HAYSOM. Luxe Design is a personalised service that styles interiors in preparation for
photographic shoots. Working closely with the client and photographer to interpret the client’s vision and
produce the desired images. Recent projects include Huntley House, Maungatautari Lodge and Winter
Weddings special for Eye Magazine.

3 Cowie Street, Parnell, AUCKLAND. Mob: 0274 385276, Fax (09) 3666 603, Email:
debbie@luxedesign.co.nz, Website: www.luxedesign.co.nz

ROSEMARY HEPOZDEN is a freelance writer and editor, based in Auckland. At the age of one, she
moved with her family from Canada to Libya, and has continued to travel extensively – looking either for
offbeat adventures or luxury lodgings, depending on mood, opportunity and finances. Her plans for the next
12 months include travelling to Borneo to volunteer at an orang-utan rehabilitation centre, and attending a
three-day music festival organised by the local Tuaregs in the northern Sahara desert. Her favourite
countries include Italy and Turkey, where she worked for one and two years respectively. Rosemary’s
stories have been published in a variety of magazines and newspapers. She also lectures in writing and
editing at the University of Auckland’s Centre for Continuing Education.
36A Peary Road, Mt Eden, AUCKLAND Ph: (09) 630 4670 Mob: 021 1500 032 email:
rosemary@thewordfactory.co.nz

PAULINE HERBST is a freelance editor and writer who has travelled to most corners of the globe and even on
business trips manages to incite an adventure or two along the way. An expansive portfolio career includes the roles of
magazine editor, anthropologist, radio talk show host, photographer and web designer – bringing a unique angle to every
commission. This experience also allows her to get the all-important story out to multiple channels, whether online, on air
or in print. Magazine print credits include NZ Management, NZ Marketing, Grill and Essentially Home (amongst others).
Pauline was runner-up in the AA Directions Magazine Award for the New Travel Writer of the Year 2008 and highly
commended in the international TABPI awards 2008.

PO Box 5442, Wellesley St, AUCKLAND, 1141 Mob: 021 66 82 60 email: contact@paulineh.com website:
www.paulineh.com

 JAMES HEREMAIA is a commercial photographer based in New Plymouth. Working in the

corporate and portrait fields James specialises in Maori culture and tourism. In particular James’ Maori
images are keenly sought after by international magazines, newspapers, tour companies and book
publishers. Many of his photographs have been showcased, along with two other Maori photographers in a
recent pictorial book published by Reed. Called The Maori World it features one of James’ most popular
images on the cover. To date this image has sold worldwide 63 times and shows no sign of slowing. James
is currently working on another book called Maramatanga – Illumination. It will be a photographic journey
through Taranaki with a distinctly Maori focus.

P O Box 6101, New Plymouth. Ph: (06) 751 3242 Mob: 027 216 7887 Fax: (06) 751 3942 mail:
jamesfoto@xtraco.nz website: www.jamesfoto.com

 MICHAELA HERON – After finishing secondary school in 2007 I purchased my first camera and
put it to good use soon after while in the Democratic Republic of Congo for six months. I have no
qualifications, published material or awards in writing or photography but am commencing study in a
Bachelor of Arts this year with an interest in pursuing journalism as a career, particularly focussing on
international affairs. I am very interested in the Democratic Republic of Congo and other developing
countries.

Email: michaela.heron@gmail.com

FIONNA HILL is a freelance writer and author. She has published three books on floral and food
design, two of which sold internationally. Two were co-authored. She is a lifestyle magazine stylist and writer
including NZ House & Garden and NZ Gardener magazines. Her travel writing has appeared in NZ House &
Garden, Next, Alive and Inspire. . Her favourite travel destinations include Vietnam, France, England and
safaris anywhere in Africa. In a former life she trained as a professional florist at Constance Spry, London,
was a newspaper librarian and later opened a high profile floral design business in Parnell, Auckland
(including a retail shop) In tandem this business also provided decorations for large and small events, floral
design demonstrations, and TV appearances. As well as floral designs, the shop sold French Country
Antiques (including sourcing them in France), and decorative items.

P O Box 37168, Parnell, AUCKLAND. Ph: (09) 360 2600 Mob: 021 1464322 email: fionnahill@xtra.co.nz

SUE HOFFART is a full-time freelance writer who has poked around – and written about - most
corners of New Zealand. The former daily news journalist’s work is widely published domestically (travel
credits include North & South, NZ Life & Leisure, NZ House & Garden, NZ Herald, Sunday Star Times,
Taste, Cuisine, Next, Kia Ora) and in offshore travel and inflight magazines. Sue delivers lively, accurate,
appealing stories on time and without fuss. Specialties include Canadian travel and the kind of human tales
that make you grin.

121 Hinewa Road, TAURANGA 3110. Ph: (07) 577 1898 email: sue@suehoffart.com

 MICHAEL HOOPER is a freelance journalist specialising in food, wine performing arts and
travel. He prepares a weekly food and wine broadcast. His work appears in a wide range of New Zealand
magazines, as does his photography. Michael won Food and Travel Writer of the Year 1994 and 1995 (NZ
Guild of Foodwriters) and examples of his stories can be found on www.wineandfood.co.nz. As an
innkeeper he was finalist in 1998 NZ Tourism Awards. Michael won Best Magazine Travel Story in 2000.

Spotlight Creative Media, PO Box 3060, Shortland St, AUCKLAND 1031. Ph: (09) 403 7527, Fax: (09) 403
7675, mob: 021 940 893, email spotlightmedia@clear.net.nz

 MIKE HORNER has spent many years photographing people in Asia and Europe.

P O Box 48128, Silverstream, WELLINGTON. Ph: (04) 972 2264 Mob: 021 066 1444 email:
mikehorner@paradise.net.nz

GRAHAM HUTCHINS is a Hamilton-based writer.

12 Thames Street, HAMILTON. Ph: (07) 853 8617 email: hutch.gm@xtra.co.nz

 VIVIENNE JEPSEN started life as a painter, photographer and traveller, then for a while, she
switched codes and wrote a novel, The House of Olaf Krull (Minerva 1994), which won the Reed Fiction
Award. That same year she became a rampant Turkophile, but subsequent trips to Turkey have been bad
to her bones, and her 2004 trip, though it didn’t exactly cost an arm and a leg, it did cost the leg and an inch
from the arm. As a result she has written a travel book, Legless in Turkey; travels without a magic carpet,
illustrated with pen drawings. Jepsen is now working on two more books: Sailing to Byzantium, a novel;
and Eyeless in the Bug Factory, a voyage through Wellington Hospital. She is armed with a PhD in
Literature, and enjoys a mildly literary approach to travels. She hopes to write wheelchair travels in the
future.

35 Garden Road, WELLINGTON 6012. Ph: (04) 970 7794 Mob: 021 120 3988 email:
Vivienne.jepsen@paradise.net.nz

 JANE JOHN. With a background in film and television Jane John is a freelance writer based in
Auckland. Travelling has been a lifelong passion – especially to Europe, Britain, Egypt and moseying
around New Zealand. After a brief introductory course, I took up travel writing. Most of my travel articles
have appeared in the Dominion, The Press and the Otago Daily Times. Penguin/Raupo (Reed) published
my first children’s book in 2007. Last year I realised a dream of living for a short time in France – swapping
house, car and friends with a French couple in the South of France – a huge, if unexpected success – yet to
be written up. I most enjoy writing about places with history, larger-than-life characters or the unexpected
and funny moments that pop up along the way.

3/117 Shelly Beach Road, St Mary’s Bay, AUCKLAND. Ph: (09) 378 7733 Mob: 021 971 900 email:
nowyouretalking@ww.co.nz website: www.nowyouretalking.info

 ANN-MARIE JOHNSON is Writer and Communications Advisor for the Tourism Industry Association
New Zealand (TIA). She was previously a newspaper journalist, most recently at the Dominion Post.

Tourism Industry Association, P O Box 1697, WELLINGTON. Ph: (04) 496 5001, Fax: (04) 499 0827 Mob:
027 600 4565 email: ann-marie.johnson@tianz.org.nz web: www.tianz.org.nz

KAPKA KASSABOVA was born in Bulgaria in 1973 and educated at a French College in Sofia
and two New Zealand universities. She is a poet, novelist, and travel writer. Her latest book is the travel
memoir of a Communist childhood and return to post-Cold War Bulgaria. ‘Street Without a Name: childhood
and other misadventures in Bulgaria’ (2008 Portobello/Penguin NZ). Her latest poetry book is ‘Geography
for the Lost.’ Kapka is co-author of the Globetrotter’s Guide to Delhi, Jaipur and Agra, and author of the
Globetrotter’s Guide to Bulgaria. Her travel features on Berlin and the eunuchs of Delhi won the 2002 and
2004 Travcom Cathay Pacific Travel Writer of the Year award. She writes travel content for
www.whaqtsonwhen.com and is a regular contributor to the NZ Listener, Sunday Times magazine, Vogue
UK, the Guardian and the Times Literary Supplement. Kapka has lived in Marseilles and Berlin, but her
favourite city is Buenos Aires. She is based in Edinburgh and Auckland.

Email: Kapka.kassabova@googlemail.com website: www.kapa-kassabova.com


  CYNTHIA KEPPLE is a Christchurch-based freelance journalist. Her background is in
news journalism and she has extensive experience in PR, marketing communications and the
hospitality/tourism industry. Her stories and images about places and people have been published in a
variety of newspapers and lifestyle and industry magazines. She was the Gardening Editor and columnist
for the Christchurch Star for six years and writes garden stories for The Press. Cynthia has a passion for
international and domestic travel and has visited every continent except the frozen ones! She has
experienced four very diverse cruises and is always planning a new travel adventure. Special areas of
interest are food, wine, architecture, history and gardens.

40 Longhurst Terrace, Cashmere, CHRISTCHURCH. Ph: (03) 337 9642 Mob: 021 322 886 Fax (03) 337
9760 email: ckepple@xtra.co.nz and cjkepple@clear.net.nz

 BLAIR KNILL, aka The Travelling Gourmet, is a self-confessed travel junky and a London City
and Guilds qualified chef to boot. He served four years with the RNZAF, travelling extensively to well-known
and remote destinations. He has overseen the catering requirements for HRH Queen Elizabeth II, Prince
Charles and the late Princess Diana, John Paul II and many other local and foreign dignitaries. Blair still
continues his passion for travel and food by hunting out stunning and unique locations throughout the globe.
He has his own weekly travel column within Television New Zealand and is a regular contributor to a wide
variety of travel and food publications.

P.O.Box 25565 St Heliers, AUCKLAND, email thetravellingourmet@knill.co.nz

DENNIS KNILL is a freelance travel, food and wine writer for a wide variety of publications.
Dennis currently publishes under his own mastheads of Miles of Travel, The Roving Gourmet, Let’s Eat Out,
Food for Thought, Essentially Food and the Wine Rack for Midweek, Howick and Pakuranga Times,
Business to Business and Howick and Botany Times. Dennis is also a regular contributor to the travel
sections of New Zealand Herald, Sunday Star-Times, Herald on Sunday, Southland Times and Otago Daily
Times as well as Active, Probus, TravelCORP and TRAVELinc, Signature, On Holiday, Experience,
Foodservice and BMW magazines. Dennis has also undertaken numerous assignments for international
airlines, travel agencies and operators and various tourist boards around the world. Dennis has published
an Auckland restaurant eating-out guide for HarperCollins in London and is a past judge for Corban’s Wine
and Food Challenge and the Marlborough Food and Wine Festival. An active member of Travcom Dennis
served on the committee in 1999 and 2000 and was runner up in the 2009 Cathay Pacific Travel Writing
awards for the Best Magazine Travel Editorial.

6B / 118 Gladstone Road, Gladstone Apartments, Parnell, AUCKLAND 1052. Ph: (09) 369 5544 Mob: (021)
65 65 20, Email: milesoftravel@xtra.co.nz

 LINDY LAIRD is an accidental Northlander – and avid fan of the region – who is currently features
editor, features and profile writer, with arts, environment and health reporting rounds at the Northern
Advocate newspaper. Her travel stories have been published in the NZ Herald and other APN papers as
well as the Advocate. Lindy has won several awards including APN NZ Regional Newspapers Feature
Writer of the Year for the past three years. Favourite countries include Laos, Vietnam, Turkey and
Scotland. She also has a great love for her homeland, New Zealand.

P O Box 1346, WHANGAREI. Ph: (09) 433 6638 Mob: (021) 1695538

 TIM LAMB has been a staff writer and contributing writer/photographer for newspapers in Auckland
and Canterbury and additional national publications. His travel writing interests include sports, music,
adventure, food often finished off with a dash of comedy. He won the 2006 Better Newspapers Competition
Sports Journalist of the Year.

6/64 Purchas St, St Albans, CHRISTCHURCH. Ph: 03-377-6467 email: Tim.d.lamb@gmail.com

 LAURA LARKIN

Website: www.lauralarkin.com

GRAEME LAY is a full-time fiction and non-fiction writer. He is the author of The Globetrotter Guide
to New Zealand, The Cook Islands and Passages – Journeys in Polynesia. His latest travel book is 'The
Miss Tutti Frutti Contest - Travel Tales of the South Pacific'. He has also authored adult and young adult
novels and short story collections. His latest adult novel is Alice & Luigi.

50 Lake Road, Devonport, AUCKLAND. Ph: (09) 445 6953, Fax: (09) 445 6952, email
graemelay@xtra.co.nz

LEIGH-ANN LAWSON is an Auckland-based writer and was a finalist in the 2004 New Travel
Writer of the Year Award.

49 Bell Road, Remuera, AUCKLAND. Ph/Fax (09) 523 3928, email: lalawson@ihug.co.nz

 LIZ LIGHT is an award winning travel writer and photographer. She specialises in features for
glossy magazines. She is the senior photojournalist for Destinations, a 160 page glossy quarterly travel
magazine that is widely read in New Zealand, Australia, Asia and the Pacific. Liz is a regular contributor to
North & South magazine writing and photographing travel, outdoors and profile stories for it. Her stories and
photographs are often featured in AA Directions magazine, New Zealand's most widely read publication with
readership of over a million. Women's magazine, Next, publishes her travel stories and photography as
does onHoliday. Liz is a past president of Travcom, (NZ Travel Communicators).

16 Ngarewa Drive, Mahurangi West, Warkworth. Ph: (09) 377 5844, email: elight@kiwilink.co.nz

 FAY LOONEY is a landscape photographer and author of First Light Last Light Images of New
Zealand (Hodder Moa Beckitt). New Zealand Lanscape Note card collection, authentic NZ& Australian
Christmas card range.

283 Koru Rd, RD4, NEW PLYMOUTH. Ph: (06) 752 7125, email: faylooney@xtra.co.nz web:
www.faylooney.com

YVONNE LORKIN is the beverages writer for NZ House & Garden magazine, a freelance writer
and deeply involved in the New Zealand wine industry. She has a syndicated wine column that runs across
five newspapers, hosts a weekly radio show reviewing wines and, as well as being a senior wine show
judge, she is regularly called on as an industry commentator. She runs her own wine consultancy business
and is a lecturer in wine marketing at the Eastern Institute of Technology.

Ph: (06) 878 9780 Mob: 021 379 877 Fax: 021 788 816 email: mailme@yvonnemarie.co.nz web:
www.yvonnemarie.co.nz

 KELLY LYNCH is an Auckland-based writer and photographer and Travcom President for 2009-
2010.

Ph: (09) 419 9515, email: kelly.lynch@clear.net.nz

 LAUREL MACDONALD widely travelled. Recently returned from three years working in the
tourism industry on Freycinet Peninsula, Tasmania and Kakadu National Park, NT. Certificate in
Photojournalism from Adult Education, Canterbury University. Amateur Travel writer. Photographic and
written contribution to published book Shot In Africa and NZ House and Garden. Past Council member of
Photographic Society of New Zealand Inc.

P O box 25334, Victoria Street, CHRISTCHURCH 8144. Ph: 021 1307 164 email:
laurelmacd@yahoo.co.nz

JILL MALCOLM was editor of Air New Zealand’s in-flight magazine Pacific Wave for 11 years and
an editor of Home and Building and Aorangi magazines. She has had extensive experience in journalism,
writing for home and overseas markets. She is the editor of AA Traveller and also the author of four books,
Macau, Unique Lodges of New Zealand, Boutique Lodgings of New Zealand, At Home On The Road, winner
of the WH Smith Travcom Travel Book of the Year 2003 and co-author of An Absolutely Outrageous
Adventure. She lectures on editing and travel writing at Auckland University and was a Travcom award
winner in 1992. President of NZTCA 1994 - 1998.

4 Jutland Street, Mairangi Bay, AUCKLAND. Ph: (09) 478-5281, Mob: 021 379 090, email
jill.malcolm@gmail.com.

 BOB MARRIOTT is a freelance writer-photographer. His writing and photographs have been
published in most New Zealand newspapers and magazines including, The NZ Herald, Dominion Post, The
Press, Otago Daily Times, Sunday Star Times, The Listener, NZWW, New Idea, Investigate, Lifestyle,
Alfresco and Travel Digest. Extensively travelled his work has also appeared in Australia, Asia, Britain
and the USA. Bob has done several commissions for Fodor's Guide books including NZ, the South Pacific
and Malaysia and has a comprehensive library of pictures from around the world.

39 Gemstone Drive, Birchville, Upper Hutt, WELLINGTON. Ph: (04) 526 9478, Mob: 021 259 4476, email
Marriott.bob@xtra.co.nz

 TRISH MAY heads up Enhance PR, bringing over 17 years of full-time tourism marketing
management skills to the business, which in recent years have been honed in the arenas of media and
public relations.

Enhance PR, P O Box 29 668, Fendalton, CHRISTCHURCH. Ph: (03) 358 1355 Mob: 021 916 188 email:
trish@enhancepr.co.nz website: www.enhancepr.co.nz

 BOB MAYSMOR is a Paremata-based travel photojournalist. A multiple finalist in the Cathay

Pacific Awards, Bob has travelled to over 120 countries. He has had three solo photographic exhibitions
(Tibet,Yemen & Cuba) and has written several books. He contributes book reviews, general and travel
articles to a number of publications including The Dominion Post, onHoliday, AA Directions, Destinations,
NZ Adventure etc. Library of over 10,000 images available.

Ph: (04) 233 1963, e-mail maysmor@paradise.net.nz web http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/maysmor/

 JOHN MCCRYSTAL is a Wellington-based freelance writer and photographer. His interests include
travel, the outdoors, sport and old cars. John has travelled extensively within New Zealand and a little
abroad. He has a special affinity with the far north of New Zealand and with the Pacific. He has published
twenty non-fiction titles, and has also published a handful of short stories and a single radio play, which was
broadcast by National Radio. In 2006 and 2008, he won the Heritage Hotels Award for Best Travel Story
about New Zealand, and in 2008 was Cathay Pacific/Travcom Travel Writer of the year.

email: jmccrystal@slingshot.co.nz Mob: 027 337 8536

 MAUREEN MCDONALD is a writer and keen photographer. She has recently completed the text
for a pictorial book on Namibia and has published travel articles in the Listener and Destinations. She has
written many corporate publications.

P.O.Box 100-751 NORTH SHORE MAIL CENTRE. Ph: (09) 413 7390, 0274 475 068, Fax: (09) 413 7391;
email: m.mcdonald@xtra.co.nz

CAROLYN MCKENZIE is an Aucklander who lives in Ventimiglia on the Italian-French

Mediterranean border. She writes about intriguing and unusual destinations and is the author of “Portraits of
the Riveriera” (NZ & UK). Travel articles have appeared in NEXT NZ, LIfestyles Magazine, Travel Digest
and Travelinc magazine. Carolyn is always happy to hear from Travcom members who are visiting
her corner of Europe.

Via Garibaldi 44, 18039 Ventimiglia (IM), ITALY. Ph: (0039) 0184 238008, email: carolynmckenzie@libero.it


 GERALDINE MCMANUS is founding director of McManus Tourism Communications
(www.mcmanus.co.nz) The innovative public relations consultancy provides outstanding service in
communications and media liaison to tourism clients including destinations, resorts, hotels, luxury lodges,
events and activities. An award-winning journalist Geraldine’s long term passion and extensive knowledge is
in the travel and tourism industries. She was 1996 and 1997 Winner - Business Travel Writer Awards, and a
finalist in both 1996 and 1998 in the prestigious Journalistic Excellence Awards, Citibank New York.

P.O. Box 9491 Newmarket, AUCKLAND 1149. Ph: (09) 366 7259, Mob 021 709 186, email
Geraldine@mcmanus.co.nz

 SIMON MCMANUS is Associate Director of McManus Tourism Communications
(www.mcmanus.co.nz) a dedicated marketing consultancy focussed on tourism, events, wine and food. With
a comprehensive 10 year background in the hospitality and tourism industry, Simon understands the
marketing needs of tourism businesses and destinations. Simon is accomplished in new media and is also
an accomplished e-marketer, creating effective copy for website search engine optimisation, e-newsletters
and PPC campaigns.

P.O. Box 9491 Newmarket, AUCKLAND 1149. Ph: (09) 366 7259, Mob 021 709 386, email
simon@mcmanus.co.nz

NOLA MCRAE is a writer of short stories, with a preference for stories about travel and the people
she meets. She has had some success, having several published in different publications, and recently was
awarded a ‘Commended’ in the Cathay Pacific competition, 2008.

Fax: (09) 478 7493 email: nolamcrae@paradise.net.nz

SUE MILES began her working life as a reporter on the Auckland Star. During three years on her
OE she worked on various publications in London, including teenage glossy magazines for IPC and a news
magazine on international heavy construction projects. While in Europe she also travelled by bicycle from
Amsterdam to Athens, a journey which cemented her enthusiasm for travel even at its most difficult. As a
freelance writer she later had regular columns in The Auckland Star, The NZ Herald, Eve Magazine and the
Listener. Her travel writing has appeared in the NZ Herald and the Listener. In the early 70’s she co-wrote
(with Peter Bolot) a travel book Down Under in Europe, a light-hearted guide for Australians and New
Zealanders. Her other books include The River, a journey along the Waikato, historically and
geographically. Most recent travels have included a train journey across Scandinavia and Eastern Europe,
walking in the mountains of Crete, visiting relatives in southern Patagonia and a road trip down the South
Island’s West Coast.

2 Fern Ave, Epsom, AUCKLAND. Ph: (09) 638 9793 Mob: 021 800014 Fax: (09) 638 9798 email:
susannemiles@xtra.co.nz

WENDY MILL is a writer/sub-editor, formerly based in Timaru, but now resident in Wellington.
Published work has included feature articles on the Chatham Islands and Italy in The Timaru Herald and on
STUFF website. A current series for a personalised travel column titled .....@ a glance with Wendy Mill,
includes feature stories on less well-known places and aspects of travel in Italy and Greece.

14 Kio Road, Hataitai, WELLINGTON. Ph: (04) 386-2202 email: wenmill@es.co.nz

CLARE MOLETA (Dip. Writing and Editing, RMIT) is an Australian-raised, New Zealand-based
writer and freelancer. She was Travcom’s New Travel Writer of the Year in 2006 and won a second Travcom
award (‘Best article about a journey’) in 2007. Her travel writing and journalism has featured in the Herald on
Sunday, AA Directions and Heritage Magazine. Recent short fiction has appeared in NZ literary journals
Sport and Turbine (www.victoria.ac.nz/turbine).

Email: clare.moleta@vuw.ac.nz

 SUE MOODY is a free-lance writer and communications consultant. Specialities are design, travel
and tourism. Travel writing and photographs have been featured in NZ Herald, Sunday Star Times, NZ
House & Garden, onHoliday.

52 Seaview Rd, AUCKLAND 1005. Ph: (09) 523 1774, Mob: 021 175 8366, email: moodyfive@yahoo.com

 JO AND GARETH MORGAN’s epic ride from Cape Town to London is captured in their latest book
Under African Skies. The intrepid biker's latest exciting adventure takes them through Africa, in an epic ride
from the south to the north - Cape Town to London. A highlight of the journey is a stop off at the UNICEF
project Jo and Gareth sponsor to look at the difference that water pumps have made to villages.

www.worldbybike.com

 ANGELA MORIARTY is the Communications Manager of Positively Wellington Tourism. She

holds a Bachelor of Communications with a major in Journalism, and has a background in newspaper and
broadcast media, tourism marketing, and PR. If you’re interested in writing about Wellington or covering the
capital’s major events, Angela’s the person to contact.

Positively Wellington Tourism, PO Box 10 017, WELLINGTON. Ph: (04) 916 1211, Mob: 021 548 155, Fax:
(04) 916 1214, email Angela.Moriarty@WellingtonNZ.com website: www.WellingtonNZ.com

 DEREK MORRISON is a photographer and writer now based in Dunedin, Otago. He has been
working as a photojournalist since leaving university in 1994 and has travelled extensively throughout his
career. He has had his work published in leading magazines throughout the world including: FHM, Tracks,
Mother and Baby, Outdoor Australia, Australasian Dirt Bike Magazine, New Zealand Surfing, Snowboarder
USA, Snowboard World UK, NZ Snowboarder, Kiwi Surf, Pregnancy and Birth, Freerider MX, Southern
Skies, Racer X, Dirt Rider US, NZ Wilderness, New Zealand and Australian Snowboarding, New Zealand
and Australian Skiing, Australian Mountain Bike Magazine, Waves etc. In June 2008, he returned from
eight years living in Sydney, Australia where he worked across a portfolio of action sports titles under the
Emap (and then ACP) banner. He now works at Allied Press and undertakes regular commissions with a
host of sporting magazines and natural history titles. You can view his work at www.derekmorrison.co.nz –
his site also features photographic examples from recent assignments that he has completed. In 2009
Derek set up Focus Media Services Ltd, which is the parent company for the writing, photography and
growing PR side of his business. With a strong grounding at the coalface of publishing, Derek anticipates
producing a series of collaborative publishing projects in the future.

41 Earls Road, St Clair, DUNEDIN. Ph: (03) 487 6926 Mob: 021 139 8188 email:
info@derekmorrison.co.nz website: www.derekmorrison.co.nz

FRANCES MORTON

Metro, Private Bag 92512, Wellesley Street, Auckland 1141. Ph: (09) 308 2711 Fax: (09) 309 9498 email:
metro@acpmagazines.com, www.metrolive.co.nz

 TIM MULLINER - has a passion for the outdoors and travelling to far-flung places. He is the author
of Long Ride for a Pie (New Holland, 2006), the culmination of an epic 14 month cycle journey from England
to New Zealand; and contributing author to the Adventure Cycle-Touring Handbook (Trailblazer, 2006). He is
currently working on a book about India. Tim works as an environmental scientist and lives in Christchurch.

Ph: 021 161 3511 Email: timmulliner@yahoo.co.uk

PAM NEVILLE is a full-time writer for magazines and newspapers. She specialises in travel,
architecture and design, houses, gardens, art and antiques. She is a columnist for NZ House & Garden
magazine. Recent travel stories have appeared in Listener, NZ Life & Leisure, On Location, Sunday
Magazine, AA Directions and Herald on Sunday.

14 Macky Avenue, Devonport, Auckland 0624. Ph: 09 445 9964 Mob: 021 546 003 email:
Pam.neville@xtra.co.nz

 JENNY NICHOLLS - Metro art director, writer, and reviewer. Hailing from Taranaki, Nicholls
started a school newspaper ("Jam"... packed with news) at 17, and seemed destined for a career as a
journalist. After a years training in journalism at Wellington Polytechnic, however, she discovered that
graphic design was more to her taste. Today she marries both interests overseeing the photography and
layout of Metro and North & South magazines, and writing review and travel pieces. She has won eight
awards (MPA and Qantas) for her covers, winning MPA designer of the year awards twice.

 AMELIA NORMAN is a qualified journalist with a voracious appetite for travel and an inherent
passion for words. Based in Christchurch, Amelia is Content Editor for the popular New Zealand travel
website www.fourcorners.co.nz Part of this role sees Amelia travelling throughout New Zealand, writing
travel articles on regions and tourism activities. These stories are published on FourCorners and are
syndicated with Yahoo!Xtra Travel and the 3 News Lifestyle website. In addition, Amelia’s work has
appeared in a range of New Zealand publications including New Zealand Woman’s Weekly, Homestyle
Magazine and Kapiti-Horowhenua Lifestyle Magazine.

108 Bamford Street, Woolston, Christchurch. Ph: (03) 982 1844, email: Amelia@tourisminnovations.co.nz
web: www.tourisminnovations.co.nz

CHERYL NORRIE is a highly experienced journalist who has worked in the UK, Central Europe,
Australia and New Zealand. Her best assignments have been interviewing the dissident writer and former
Czech President Vaclav Havel in the Czech Republic, reporting on the challenges faced by the Slovenian
government after the break-up of Yugoslavia, and writing about her experiences travelling across the US by
Cadillac. Her favourite European city is Budapest, where she lived for two years while working as an editor
at the Hungarian News Agency and coordinating the publication of the Expatriate’s Handbook to Hungary.
More recently Cheryl has been writing about New Zealand towns and cities for the travel website
www.exploring.co.nz and reviewing Wellington’s best hotels for Insight Guides. Cheryl has worked as a
reporter on the Otago Daily Times and the Dominion (now2 the Dominion Post) and is based in Wellington.

Email: Cheryl.norrie@paradise.net.nz

 MEAD NORTON – is a photojournalist who specialises in adventure travel and loves to get off the
beaten track. Originally from the states, he has been living and working here in New Zealand for the past
three years. He has travelled extensively throughout North America, Caribbean, South East Asia, Pacific
and New Zealand. He won the 2005 Banff Mountain Photography Competition for an image he took while in
Tibet. He has been published in various magazines in both America and New Zealand. Most recently he
has been doing work for M2, Inspire, New Zealand Outside and New Zealand Snowboarder and a few other
online publications.

Mob: 021 202 3042, email: photo@naturalstudios.co.nz, web: www.naturalstudios.co.nz

KATHY OMBLER is a Wellington-based writer focusing on nature tourism, conservation and the
travel, tourism, conference and hospitality industries. Books published include Where to Watch Birds in New
Zealand, A Visitor's Guide to New Zealand National Parks, National Parks and Other Wild Places of
New Zealand, Walking Wellington, Ruahine Forest Park guide plus several regional walking guides. She
contributes regularly to NZ Hospitality, Meeting Newz, Travelinc, Tourism Business and Forest and Bird
magazines.

Ph: (04) 473 7138, Fax: (04) 473 7139, email: Kathy@ombler.co.nz


DENIS PAGÉ is a photographer and writer based on the Otago Peninsula near Dunedin. He
specializes in natural history, travel and editorial photography and has worked all over the globe for
publications such as National Geographic, Air New Zealand, Qantas and Air Canada in-flight magazines, NZ
House&Garden, AA Traveller, Destinations, Scientific American, Equinox and Canadian Geographic to
name a few. His photographs illustrate over 50 books from the Basque country to Hong Kong. He co-wrote,
with his wife, a book on New Zealand seashores and one on children’s book illustrators, which won the New
Zealand Book Awards in 1997. His corporate clients range for Kwik Copy Australia to Bell Canada. Denis
works mostly in Asia and North America averaging over 8 months every year on assignments.

24 Matariki Street, Broad Bay, DUNEDIN. Ph: (03) 478 0086, mob 027-223-0364, Fax: (03) 478 0046, email
f22photo@southnet.co.nz web www.denispage.com


CERIDWYN PARR loves to travel and write, about both the inner and outer journey. Her work
can be seen in NZ Business, LOTL, and Tui Motu. As an education professional, she is the Director of a Kip
McGrath Education Centre. “I encourage students to read and write to their highest level. Then I go off to get
inspired myself, most recently in Turkey, Italy, Portugal and Spain.” See www.ceridwynparr.blogspot.com
She lives on the Coromandel Peninsula with her partner where they run Watershed Cottage, a retreat and
B&B for women.

Watershed Cottage, 122 Tararu Creek Road, THAMES 2500. email: ceridwyn@paradise.net.nz

 WILLY PEARCE is a Paihia-based writer and photographer/writer.

87B Orchard Road, Haruru Falls, PAIHIA. Ph: (09) 402 6967 Mob: 021 113 2306 email:
willy.pearce@befree.co.uk web: www.sideswipephotography.com

ANGELA PEARSE is an Auckland-based writer.

J-15 Vinograd Drive, Te Atatu Peninsula, Waitakere City 0610, AUCKLAND. Mob: 021 140 3677 email:
angelapearse@yahoo.com website: www.bellaitalia.co.nz

 NEVILLE PEAT Dunedin-born Neville Peat is the author or co-author of more than 30 books that
explore themes of geography, travel, natural history and the environment. High Country Lark completes a
southern New Zealand trilogy that explores environments as different as Central Otago’s Strath Taieri Valley
and the subantarctic Auckland Islands. Neville has written guides to Dunedin, the Catlins, Stewart Island,
Fiordland, Wanaka, Queenstown and New Zealand’s subantarctic Islands. His travel writing includes
Detours, an account of a three-month 4,000 km journey on a 10 speed touring bike through New Zealand’s
small towns (1982; republished and reintroduced 2008.)

Neville is a photographer and illustrates much of his writing. His travel experiences overseas include six
months in South America, two summers in Antarctica, two years in Southern Africa and a year as editor of
Tonga’s weekly newspaper. He had journalistic assignments in all these places. The Antarctic experience
gave him material for two books. In 2007 Neville was awarded the Creative New Zealand Michael King
Fellowship to complete High Country Lark and produce a major book on the Tasman Sea. He is a fifth-
generation descendent of Scottish pioneers in Otago. He lives at Broad Bay on Otago Peninsula with his
wife Mary and daughter Sophie.

1 Cowal Street, Broad Bay, DUNEDIN 9014. Ph: (03) 478 0803 www.nevillepeatsnewsealand.com

 HEATHER RAMSAY is a full-time freelance writer who provides a weekly travel news column
(Let's Go NZ) for the New Zealand Herald and a monthly one (Traveller's Checks) for the Taranaki Daily
News, as well as providing travel features for both publications. Other regular travel outlets are Freebie,
Dish, and the Herald on Sunday. She writes material for the Arrival magazine website, and she has recently
done travel segments on Radio Live. Her features have appeared in many publications throughout NZ and
Australia, with articles scheduled for future issues of NZ Life & Leisure and Top Gear NZ. Heather was a
finalist in the 2003 & 2005 Cathay Pacific Travcom Travel Media Awards. She is on the Travcom committee
and writes the bi-monthly newsletter. Her articles are usually accompanied by photos taken by her husband,
Dennis Richardson (see Richardson). The couple operates All-rounders Travel Services, which provides
small group tours to India, tour leading services, and travel writing and photography services.

Ph: (06) 753 3907; 021 0727345, email: heathden@ihug.co.nz

 SALLY RAUDON Aside from considerable personal enthusiasm, Sally’s professional connection
with the travel industry is founded on her work as a public relations consultant for Singapore Airlines.
sallyr@botica.co.nz

 PAULINE RAY manages corporate relations in New Zealand for Cathay Pacific Airways. She has
had extensive experience in journalism, having worked on the Christchurch Star, the NZ Listener, More
magazine (as deputy editor), the NZ Woman’s Weekly (as news editor), and on the TV Times and Financial
Times in London. Pauline joined Communicado as a TV producer/director, editing a weekly business
programme before establishing her own public relations company at the end of 1990.

P.O. Box 91-828 AMC. Ph: (09) 377-2907, Fax: (09) 366-1733; (021) 958 635, email pray@dockstreet.co.nz

GRAHAM REID is a freelance journalist who was previously a senior feature writer for the New
Zealand Herald. He has won numerous awards for his travel, arts and feature writing and in 2003 won the
prestigious Media Peace Award. His travel writing has appeared in the Herald, Listener, Pacific Wave, New
Zealand Women's Weekly and other magazines. He is also one of the country's best known music writers
and contributes reviews, interviews and other articles to the Herald. He travels frequently for work and
pleasure, takes his own photographs, and has his own media/travel/arts company Elsewhere Ltd. Graham's
first book of travel stories, Postcards From Elsewhere, was published by Random House in mid 2005 and
won the Whitcoulls TravCom Travel Book of the Year award in 2006. He currently contributes his quirky
Snapshots column to the New Zealand Herald's Tuesday Travel section, has an on-going travel-based
website www.elsewhere.co.nz, has been accepted as a writer/contributor for the highly regarded UK website
www.travelintelligence.net and undertakes both national and international travel commissions.

Unit Nine, 25 Rossmay Terrace, Morningside, AUCKLAND. Ph: (09) 815 0497, email:
Graham.reid@elsewhere.co.nz

LOUISE RICHARDSON has 20 years media experience in New Zealand and the UK, and is
currently Lifestyle/Travel Editor at the New Zealand Woman's Weekly. She isn't an intrepid traveller, having
vowed many years ago never to grace the inside of a tent again. Her ideal destination has shops, good food,
wine and lots of culture.

Email: louise.richardson@nzww.co.nz

 ALEXIS MARIE ROBB is an Auckland-based writer and photographer.

Ph: (09) 535 1061 Mob: 021 0267 6862 email: info@alwaysalexismarie.com website:
www.alwaysalexismarie.com

IAN ROBINSON wrote Gantsara, Alone Across Mongolia, published by Harper Collins in 2004,
which tells the story of Ian’s fascinating, often hilarious, sometimes terrifying solo horseback journey across
outer Mongolia. He became the first Westerner to cross the country in this way, spending seven months in
this remote, inhospitable land.

P O Box 3967 Shortland Street, AUCKLAND. Ph: (09) 473 7463 Mob (021) 539 666 email:
daystogo2001@yahoo.co.uk

 KATHERINE ROBINSON is a Wellington-based freelance writer/photographer and editor. She

worked in London for 14 years on mainly food, travel and lifestyle magazines including Expression (for
American Express) and the City Guides (entertainment guides to various British cities.) On returning to New
Zealand, she qualified as a professional photographer and put her experience to good use by producing
Wairarapa: the guidebook, an independent guide to what has become one of her favourite parts of New
Zealand. Her writing and photography reflect her interest in landscape and people.

PO Box 6395, Marion Square, WELLINGTON. Mob: 027 563 9686 email: Katherine@catseyemedia.co.nz
website: www.catseyemedia.co.nz

 KIRSTEN RØDSGAARD-MATHIESEN is a Danish-born, truly remarkable media whiz with a

B.A. in journalism and a degree in PR/marketing. She is a self-employed/freelance print & photojournalist
and tv-director/producer and provides most of the photography used in her profiles, travel and feature stories
for print media in New Zealand and overseas as well as images to accompany various PR/marketing
projects. For TV projects she researches, interviews, directs and, at times, produces but she equally enjoys
collaborating with established and well-known TV production companies/TV stations. She has travelled and
worked in many countries and her print work (including many travel stories) has appeared in more than 70
publications in Scandinavia, Europe, the UK, USA and New Zealand (i.e. NZ House&Garden, NEXT, Urbis,
The Press, Your Home&Garden, NZ Magazine, NZ Herald).
Time permitting Kirsten also shares her love of New Zealand with tourists whilst guiding them around the
country in Danish, French or English. Please visit her website – www.madfrog.dk - for more information.
Kirsten is based in Nelson but her world is limitless.
P.O.Box 7180, Nelson Mail Centre, Nelson 7042. Ph: (03) 539 4757

 DAVID ROWLAND started One-Image Photography with a simple concept; to create a unique stamp
on life through photographs produced for clients demanding professional images that stand out from the
host of competing businesses. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, David has been taking photographs for
over 30 years. His love of all types of landscapes, sports, and the outdoors inspired him to start capturing
some of his favourite moments on film. Within David’s portfolio, one can find a variety of images panning
many fields of photography, including travel, photojournalism, sport, architecture, fine art and landscapes.
His work has been exhibited and published worldwide including the United Kingdom, Europe, China, Russia
and New Zealand.

One-Image Photography, P O Box 305 303, Triton Plaza, AUCKLAND 0757. Mob: 0210 222 9773 email:
mail@one-image.com web: www.one-image.com

PAUL RUSH is a full-time freelance adventure travel writer and photographer who accepts writing
commissions from magazines, newspapers and tourism authorities. His travel articles are published in
magazines and metropolitan newspapers on world-wide destinations, eco-tourism, outdoor adventures,
native cultures, food and travel advice. His background experience includes 35 years as a travel industry
administrator and outdoor adventure guide. Paul is a past president of Travcom.

9 Camith Close, Howick, Auckland. Ph (09) 273 3717 027 6515380, email: prush@xtra.co.nz

OWEN SCOTT is an Auckland-based writer.

P O Box 137214, Parnell, AUCKLAND. Ph: 021 044 6864 email: owenzone@xtra.co.nz


NICK SERVIAN is a Wellington-based photographer, highly experienced in creative travel and

architectural photography, as well as advertising and corporate work. He has also had a number of travel
stories published. Available for assignments anywhere. Worldwide stock library of photographs available.

Nick Servian Photography Ltd, P O Box 6283, WELLINGTON. Ph: (04) 385 6079. 027-442 1468
email: nick@nickservian.com website: www.nickservian.com

 GRANT SHEEHAN is a Wellington-based photographer

PO Box 6385 Marion Square, WELLINGTON. Ph/fax: (04) 384 5451, Mob: 0274 421 646, email
phantomh@actrix.co.nz web www.phantomhouse.com
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 ROY SINCLAIR specialises in rail journeys and bicycle touring. He recently completed a 4200 km
bike ride through Japan. His eleven book titles include ‘Route 6, a classic South Island bike ride’ and
‘TranzAlpine New Zealand.’ Favourite themes are people and places. He is frequently published in
Japanese language media, in Japan and New Zealand.

1a Wedgewood Avenue, CHRISTCHURCH 8002. Ph: (03) 337 6926 Mobile: (027) 229 5035, email
r.sinclair@clear.net.nz

MEGAN SINGLETON is a freelance travel and feature writer. Recent stories have featured a
pilgrimage to Bob Marley’s Jamaica, New York: Four years on from 9-11, clambering over Machu Picchu’s
ruins, staying at Donald Trump’s hotel of bling. Regular publishing credits include AA Directions, New
Zealand Herald, Herald on Sunday, Sunday Star-Times, New Idea, Dominion Post, Next Magazine and
Courier Mail – Brisbane, Herald Sun - Sydney.

P.O.Box 37563 Parnell, AUCKLAND. Ph: (09) 522 7797, mobile Ph: 021 777 770, email:
megan@profilepr.co.nz

 AARON SMALE is a Levin-based writer and photographer.

Ph: (06) 368 5618 Mob: 021 932 023 email: ikon@ihug.co.nz and website: www.ikonsite.com

FIONA SMITH is a travel and food writer for Cuisine Magazine.

23A Cardigan Street, Western Springs, AUCKLAND. Ph: 815 2207 Mob: 021 731 556 email:
fismith@xtra.co.nz

 NEIL SMITH

76 Purau Ave, R D 2, Diamond Harbour 8972. Ph: (03) 329 4949 email: nsphotography@slingshot.co.nz

 PATRICK SMITH is a Canterbury-based writer, editor and subeditor specialising in cultural, eco,
food, wine, luxury and golf tourism. Patrick is Editor of Weekend and arrival magazines and Travel Editor of
World. During 2009 he is editing and writing for Tourism Australia's Explore Australia publications. His
stories are often accompanied by his own photographs. He is past president of Travcom.

Mt Admiral, 624 Conway Flat Rd, RD 4 Cheviot 7384, NORTH CANTERBURY. Ph: (03) 319 2928 Mob:
0274 855 687 (P) e-mail: editorial@xtra.co.nz

 TONY SMITH runs a travel marketing company and general sales agency, Francis Travel
Marketing, representing the Carnival Cruise Lines, Tourism Authority of Thailand, Holland America Line and
Windstar Cruises.

P.O. Box 1310, AUCKLAND; Ph: (09) 489 1363 (021) 736 326; Fax: (09) 489 1370; mob 021 736 326;e-
mail: tony@francistravelmarketing.co.nz website: www.francistravelmarketing.co.nz

 STEVE SOLE is a Taranaki-based travel writer and photographer who will consider all
proposals. His numerous travel writing and photography awards include Travel Photographer of the Year
1998. His work appears in many national magazines including onHoliday, AA Directions, The Listener, New
Zealand Geographic, New Zealand Herald.

64 Johnson Rd, RD 44, Urenui. Tel: +64 (06) 752 3282, email: steve@stevesole.biz

 MALCOLM SOMERVILLE is a photographer/writer/author.

Editorial photography for magazines. AV and Video production. Full digital post production suite. 7 books
photographed ‘Manawatu’ for Hub Publishing. Photographed and wrote ‘Cottages of New Zealand’ and
‘Pubs of New Zealand ‘ for Hodder Moa Beckett. Photographed and researched ‘Then & Now” series of
books on New Zealand for Random House/Whitcoulls. Write two monthly columns for Parkside Media ‘The
Photographers’ Mail Magazine. Interests include heritage, economic geography and media. Currently have
2 books in preparation and an independent doco in gestation. Past President of NZIPP and still involved in
their annual awards process as Panel Chair.

P O Box 1715, PALMERSTON NORTH. Ph: (06) 359 2355, Mob: 0274 790016 email:
primestk@xtra.co.nz website: www.storytellers.co.nz

 DEAN STARNES has incurably itchy feet. Ever since he accompanied his family on a trip to Fiji
at an impressionable age, he has been travelling, and is 30 years, 80 countries, five continents and three
backpacks later – still going strong. Harper Collins has just published his first book ‘Roam, the art of Travel’
which features stories, tips, advice and photography from around the world. Dean’s articles have appeared
in the Sydney Morning Herald, The Listener, the New Zealand Herald, and the Otago Daily Times. He also
freelance writes for Lonely Planet and has worked on the Central Asia, Fiji, South Pacific and Papua New
guinea guidebooks, all of which also feature some of his photography. Dean is not adverse to travelling to
out of the way spots and so far he’s survived three bus crashes, one shipwreck and malaria. He’s like a
weed and surprisingly resilient.

Papakura, AUCKLAND. Ph: (09) 296 1555, Mob: 027 200 6203 email: ds@deanstarnes.com website:
www.deanstarnes.com

LORRAINE STEELE is an Auckland freelance publicist and travel writer. She was publicity
manager for HarperCollins Publishers for 10 years, and left at the end of ’06 to travel through Latin America
and the South Pacific. Now home she runs her own publishing publicity company, and manages publicity
for Exisle Publishing and New Holland Publishers. She’s also caught the travel writing bug, and has had
three stories published recently in Next Magazine.

43 Huka Road, Birkenhead, AUCKLAND. Tel. (09) 480 2007; Mob. 021 859 805. Email:
steele.lorraine@gmail.co.nz

 SHARON STEPHENSON has made her living from words for more years than she can remember.
Based in Wellington, Sharon is a freelance writer, editor, copywriter and PR consultant who spent many
years in the wilderness of government PR before she saw the error of her ways and returned to full-time
freelancing. She’s recently had work published in NEXT, The Herald on Sunday, the Sunday Star Times
Magazine, The Dominion, Your Home & Garden, North & South, Your Weekend and too many trade
publications to mention.

11 Harrold Street Kelburn, WELLINGTON. Ph: (04) 973 4706, Mob: 021 210 2464, email:
Sharon.stephenson@paradise.net.nz

 GRANT STIRLING has operated Stirling Images since 1996 doing a variety of photographic work
from weddings, portraits, commercial and travel. He has travelled the world on bicycles covering around
40,000 kms over a 3 ½ year period. He visited 17 countries in Europe, America, Alaska, Australia and New
Zealand, which is where he developed his photographic skills. Grant has also written articles that have been
published in both New Zealand and the UK. The first was cycling Alaska to California, the second cycling
from Santa Barbara, CA to New York (beginning his honeymoon) and the third on a mountain biking trip in
Jackson Hole, WY.

18 Malvern Ave, NELSON 7010. Ph: (03) 545 1221 Mob: 027 229 6737 Fax: (03) 545 1228 email:
grant@stirlingimages.co.nz website: www.stirlingimages.co.nz

 JENNY SYMMANS trained as a journalist in New Zealand before working in tourism and travel
promotion in the U.K. Spent a few years roaming around the world doing odd-jobs and freelance travel
writing before returning to New Zealand to a communications and marketing career spanning more than 25
years. Works across a range of industries including travel and tourism, travelling as much as possible in
between work assignments.

4 Pitoitoi Road, Eastbourne, WELLINGTON. Ph: (04) 562 8629 Mob: 027 245 1734 Fax (04) 562 8639
email: jsymmans@xtra.co.nz

 KARINE THOMAS is the Director of Navigate South, Navigate Publicity and Navigate Venues.
These companies specialise in sales, marketing, publicity and media relations for tourism based product
internationally and within New Zealand.

Navigate South, 5/340 Parnell Road, “Posada” Building, AUCKLAND, Ph: (09) 307 3633, Fax: (09) 307
3292, Mob: 021 753 022 email: karine@navigatesouth.com, website: www.navigatesouth.com

 JULIA THORNE is a photographer and writer based in Auckland. In the 15 years since working in
news journalism and photography at the New Zealand Herald she has freelanced in photography and writing
for editorial, public relations and corporate customers. Business niches include tourism, industrial,
commercial, environmental and publishing. Julia contributes to New Zealand and overseas magazines
including The Independent (UK), The Australian Way, Southern Skies, Signature, Marketing, Management,
Ad Media, Next, NZ House and Garden, Style, Pro Design, and FQ Entertaining. She has travelled
extensively, exhibited work in London and New Zealand and supplies images to photo-stock libraries in both
countries.

PO Box 33 1360, Takapuna, AUCKLAND 1310. Mob: 0274 724 707 e-mail: juliathorne@clear.net.nz
website: www.juliathorne.co.nz

YVONNE VAN DONGEN is a freelance writer. She was formerly travel editor at the New
Zealand Herald and travel editor and commissioning editor of onHoliday magazine. Yvonne has won
numerous travel writing awards including the 1995 Travel Writer of the Year and the 1998 Fletcher
Challenge Paper Commonwealth Media Award in which she won a fellowship to Cambridge University in the
UK. In 1999 she did an internship with Conde Nast Traveler in New York. She has also taught travel writing
at the University of Auckland's continuiing education department.

11 Selby Square, St Mary’s Bay, AUCKLAND. Ph: (09) 09 360 8200, Mob: (021) 276 7743; e-mail:
yvonne.v@xnet.co.nz

 MATT VANCE is a freelance writer/photographer specialising in quirky tales from the South
Pacific, Subantarctic islands and Antarctica. His stories and photographs have appeared in the Listener,
Sunday Star Times and Herald on Sunday. Internationally Matt has been published in Smithsonian
Magazine and Cruising World.

Diamond Harbour, Canterbury. Mob: 021 0223 0006 email: poiesis@ihug.co.nz

GILLIAN VINE is a prizewinning senior journalist and photographer, based in Dunedin. Her work
has been published in newspapers and magazines in New Zealand and overseas and her specialist
writing/photographic area is gardening and she has recently completed a new edition of long-established
The Star Garden Book. She is available for freelance assignments.

26 Franklin St, Dalmore, DUNEDIN 9010. Ph: (021) 705-708; email: gillianv@ihug.co.nz

 PAMELA WADE (freelance writer and photographer) won the Cathay Pacific Travel Writer of the
Year Award 2009 for a story about Glasgow. Her work is published throughout New Zealand in all major
daily and provincial newspapers, both the Sunday Star-Times and Herald on Sunday, and The Australian,
The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald. Her stories have also featured in the magazines Destinations,
Inspire, Next, NZ Listener, Luxury, New Idea, Her, AA Directions, Women's Health, Coastlines, Journeys
and Top Gear (NZ). She has written columns, features, book and car reviews, but travel is her passion: the
more hands-on, the better, whether that involves coming eye-to-eye with a bear in the woods or sleeping in
a haunted Scottish castle.

7 Sunnyview Road, Greenhithe, AUCKLAND 0632. Ph: (09) 413 9101, Mob. 021 1675 975 Email:
go@pamelawade.co.nz website: www.pamelawade.co.nz blog: www.travelskite.blogspot.com

HOLLY WALLACE works as a freelance writer and photographer based in Queenstown and loves
adventure. Her overseas travel features follow original and engaging themes like finding a French kiss in
Paris, climbing inside Edinburgh’s many steeples to wind time, carving snow in Northern Japan, and
avoiding bears in Yosemite National Park. In NZ, Holly’s work focuses on getting out there and getting active
in the awe inspiring South Island landscape. Holly is a regular contributor to AA Directions, Fitness Life, On
Holiday Magazine and North and South, to name a few.
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230 Malaghans Road, Queenstown. Ph: (03) 442 5305 Mob: 021 705 310 Email: holly@inztinct.com
website: www.inztinct.com

 DARRAGH WALSHE New Zealand representative for Tourism Ireland and Hawai‘i Tourism.

P O Box 279, AUCKLAND. Ph: (09) 977 2222 Fax: (09) 977 2256 email:
d.walshe@walshegroup.co.nz website: www.discoverireland.co.nz
and www.hawaiitourism.co.nz

JOCELYN WATKIN is an Auckland based writer. Her first book Keeping the Faith - Travel the
World, which she co-wrote with her financial planner (Kim Gabites), shows how anyone can be footloose,
fancy-free and travel the world. Jocelyn and Kim's second book, Faith Speaks Money Talks, is due out
in July 2009. Jocelyn began her professional writing career in 1998, when she and her husband worked as
photojournalists during their year long trans-global expedition in a classic Land Rover. Since then she has
published numerous articles as a freelance writer. Jocelyn has tertiary qualifications in education, journalism
and a masters degree in business (MBA).

20 Hoylake Place, Manurewa, AUCKLAND 2103. Ph: (Mob) 027 493 9851, email: jwatkin@clear.net.nz
Website: www.keepingthefaith.co.nz

 BRIAN WESTWOOD is the General Manager of Tourism Innovations which produces the New
Zealand travel information website www.fourcorners.co.nz. Previously General Manager for Hurunui
Tourism and Marketing executive for Christchurch and Canterbury Marketing, Brian has a wealth of
knowledge about small business and regional tourism issues. As a co-author of www.fourcorners.co.nz and
it's promoter Brian is keen to work with Travcom members to extend the awareness of this new resource for
travellers as well as opportunities to gain alternative views of New Zealand via other New Zealand writers.

108 Bamford Street, Woolston, Christchurch. Ph: (03) 982 1844, email: brian@tourisminnovations.co.nz ,
web: www.tourisminnovations.co.nz

ANNABELLE WHITE is an Auckland based freelance writer who is known for her quirky and
slightly outrageous approach to travel experiences. Over the past twenty years she has taken a film crew to
New York to search out bagels and Nordic walked the mountains of Austria in search of good strudel and a
chance to represent NZ in archery in an international competition– her “experiences” are never the norm.
With a MA Hons in History and Geography and a love of teaching she is busy travelling around the country
giving cooking and travel tips laced with humour and plenty of practical advice (“always travel with a head
lamp!”). A cook book author of ten cook books her love of food/travel has been captured in her books,
magazine articles and newspaper features. A Sunday Star- Times columnist for 20 years and a regular
radio and TV commentator, she lives in an “upmarket trampers hut” on her late great grandfathers back yard
at Birkenhead Point – the bird song and bush helps the writing process and is the source of much
inspiration.

MIKE WHITE is a Wellington-based writer.

128 Owhiro Bay Parade, Owhiro Bay, WELLINGTON. Ph: (04) 383 6219 email: michaelwhite@xtra.co.nz

 TIM WHITE is a New Zealand born photographer, specialising in fashion and advertising but with a
personal passion for documentary photography. His work has appeared in publications like Vogue , Harpers
Bazaar , the Face and The London Times. He returned to NZ in 2004 (after living in London for over a
decade and Sydney for three years) to begin a book project recently publishing the results . True North (with
an accompanying DVD called Whakarongomaikio) became a four year project shot in the Far North of New
Zealand , the book has already been described by D-Photo magazine as a "masterpiece".

http://www.timwhitephoto.com/

 KAREN WILLIAMSON is a Warkworth based photographer and a newbie to the travel media
industry. Karen is photographer and co-author of ‘Family OE: a really useful Kiwi Guide to Travelling
overseas with your children’ published by New Holland in 2008. She has had several images published in
local newspapers (one day maybe they will pay her!) and sells stock images online to the NZ and American
market. She has a particular interest in family travel and environmental portraiture.

Ph: (09) 422 3577 Mob: 027 636 5610 email: fatsprat@halcyondesign.co.nz website:
www.fatspratphotography.co.nz

SIMON WILSON is a senior staff writer and food editor at Metro magazine; also television critic for
Radio New Zealand.

26 Second Avenue, Kingsland, AUCKLAND 1021. Ph: (09) 845 8383 Mob: 0273 780 518 email:
editorial@bigandlittle.co.nz

 BEVERLEY WOOD has been addicted to travel since childhood. Her OE in the 1960s added to
her obsession. She has been published in the NZ Woman’s Weekly, the Waikato Times and Hot Ink 2.

186 Cambridge Road, Hillcrest, HAMILTON Ph: (07) 856 6822, email hugh.wood@xtra.co.nz

 JILL WORRALL is the 2005 Travcom Travel Writer of the Year and has won numerous other
awards, including two Qantas awards. Her book A Blonde in the Bazaar was a runner-up in the WH Smith
Travel Book of the year. She edits the Timaru Herald travel page and contributes regularly to other NZ, and
overseas publications. She has a special love and fascination for Bhutan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Central Asia
and Iran. Next up on her travel list are the Caucasus, Central Europe and Ireland. She also escorts tours to
remote parts of the globe and is on the national executive of Save the Children New Zealand.

23 Bowker Street, Timaru NZ (0064) 3 684 9231 Jill.worrall@xtra.co.nz