Our annual travel-writing competition is back! Find out more about the fantastic opportunities and prizes to be won. 

Author Jonathan Lorie shares his tips on getting into travel writing and entering competitions. 

Book your ticket now for the 14th annual Bradt travel-writing seminar, in association with Travellers' Tales. 

This year we're welcoming the tourist boards of two brilliant big cat destinations as sponsors of our festival. Zambia Tourism's purpose is to raise awareness of Zambia's many attractions - including its plethora of big cats!

This year we're welcoming the tourist boards of two brilliant big cat destinations as sponsors of our festival. The first, Tourism Uganda, shows us why there's far more to the country's wildlife than gorillas. 

Returning to sponsor our Big Cat Festival for a second year, the Cheetah Conservation Fund will be sharing insights into their work protecting cheetahs at our panel discussion alongside their patron HRH Princess Michael of Kent. 

We're really pleased to be joined at the Big Cat Festival by Tania Esteban who has worked on natural history documentaries at the BBC, including Big Cats. Tania will be tellng us how to get into wildlife film-making in the Education Centre, and giving us tales from behind the scenes at a Big Cat Shoot onstage in the Ondaatje Theatre.

AfriCat (which stands for a free cat) is a research, education and conservation charity based in Namibia. They loved our first Big Cat event so much they just had to become sponsors for 2019!

At a gala dinner at Mayfair's Unit London, Hilary Bradt and Wexas Travel's David Ward announced the winner of the 2019 New Travel Writer of the Year competition, in association with the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards.

Every year the British Guild of Travel Writers host an awards dinner in London, celebrating their members' achievements as well as examples of outstanding tourism projects, and 2018 was a bumper year for Bradt!