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Peter ELLEGARD |
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Professional title
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Freelance travel writer and photographer |
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Address |
15 Constable Way
Shoeburyness
Essex SS3 9TA |
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Telephone (day)
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01702 304023 |
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Telephone (evening)
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01702 304023 |
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Fax:
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01702 304023 |
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Mobile
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07710 270517 |
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E-mail
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peter@ellegard.co.uk |
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Website 1
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www.peterellegard.co.uk |
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Website 2
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www.tlmags.com |
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Biography |
After 17 years with leading UK travel industry publication Travel Trade Gazette, the last 13 of them as features editor, I left early in 2002 to go freelance as a travel writer and photographer. Miraculously, I'm still surviving and enjoying it. I specialise in both travel and golf, writing for a range of UK and overseas travel trade and consumer publications and having had photographs published extensively.
I have dabbled with a TV career, spending three months at the end of 2003 in China with a Chinese TV crew for an 11-programme series called Travelling in China. The series was broadcast on China's English-language national TV station CCTV9 in 2004 and 2005. That led on to me specialising on China, which resulted in editing and co-writing a number of guide books and internet guides to the country and various destinations within China. It also helped me win the British Guild of Travel Writers' Photograph of the Year in the annual Members' Awards for 2005 and 2006. And in the run-up to and during the Beijing Olympics, I wrote for the International Olympic Committee - writing the cover feature for the Beijing Games issue of its official publication, Olympic Review, and a series of news articles on the impact of the Games on China for the IOC website, www.olympic.org.
An Essex lad through and through, if you cut me in half I would probably have it stamped right through me like a stick of rock from my home town, Southend. I have long held a passion for photography. My father was a freelance cameraman for everyone from local Essex papers to Fleet Street's finest as I was growing up in the 1950s, '60s and '70s, as well as a news cine cameraman for the BBC. And while I chose writing as my profession, I loved taking pictures with my little box Brownie and developing them in my dad's darkroom, posing for photos with my brothers and sister when he needed models and later helping out occasionally as his sound assistant. What started as a hobby has since become an obsession.
My journalistic life began in 1972 with 12 years as a reporter on regional Essex daily the Evening Echo and sister paper the Southend Standard, moving on to join TTG and travel the world. |
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Main professional activities |
I edit The Travel & Leisure Magazine, a consumer bi-monthly distributed in London and the Home Counties.
I also edit the annual Golf Escapes golf travel supplement produced by leading UK consumer golf magazine Golf World.
And I edit the annual directory for global golf tourism industry association IAGTO.
Main freelance media outlets currently include Travel Trade Gazette (TTG)
Selling Long Haul
Short Breaks & Holidays
ABTA Golf
fah Thai (in-flight magazine of Bangkok Airways)
The Times/Times Online
I wrote the annual Ferry Review in 2007 for the Passenger Shipping Association and have written regular articles for the PSA's Sail & Drive Campaign since early 2008 which have been issued as press releases.
I wrote the official Egypt Golf Guide on behalf of the Egyptian State Tourist Authority in 2008, which has been translated into nearly a dozen languages and distributed worldwide.
I have also written extensively for other outlets including:
Olympic Review/www.olympic.org (official IOC magazine and website)
Whatsonwhere.com
Golf Links
RCI Holiday
CNN Traveller
Essentially America
AOL
TravelGolf.com
RCI Endless Vacations
ASTAnetwork
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Memberships |
British Guild of Travel Writers
International Golf Travel Writers Association |
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Awards |
2005 & 2006: BGTW Photograph of the Year Award, Members' Awards.
2008: Best Photographic Travel Feature, Visit USA Association Travel Media Awards
Canada Travel Trade Writer of the Year, 1993 and 1996
2nd prize out of 650 entries in inaugural United Business Media photographic competition 2001 open to all offices worldwide. I had seven winning entries out of the total 34 category winners and runners-up. The images are on display on the directors' floor of UBM's London HQ, Ludgate House |
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Most recent publications |
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Other important publications |
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Areas of particular interest or expertise |
Golf writing and photography
Scuba Diving (I wrote the Caribbean Tourism Organisation diving factfile, which is on their UK website)
China
America and Canada
Egypt
Austria
Spain
France |
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Other relevant information |
Illustrated extracts from my diary of travels around China for the Travelling in China TV series are on my website, as are video clips from the trailer for the series. |