Award For Bradt Travel Guides
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www.bradtguides.com Bradt Travel Guides has done it again! Six months after receiving the bronze award in the Wanderlust Travel Awards, the company was voted second Best Guide Book Series by the Guardian, Observer and Guardian Unlimited Travel Awards 2005.
The longest-running independent survey of its kind, questionnaires were published in the Guardian, Observer and Guardian Unlimited earlier this year and nearly 27,000 people participated in voting for their travel favourites. Bradt Travel Guides received an 89.1% satisfaction rating, beating all but Dorling Kindersley’s mainstream Eye-Witness Guides, who received 90.3%.
Bradt has published guides to over 100 destinations including Mauritania, Iraq, Sudan and Iran.
Since the 1970s the company has been informing, enlightening, advising - and even occasionally astounding - travellers who want to explore new places, from Antarctica to Zanzibar. From the seriously offbeat to popular tourist locations the guides are written with knowledge, sensitivity and understanding.
Through 30 years of publishing, Bradt has kept its focus on the needs of the end-user: the adventurous traveller who seeks out off-beat places and the dreamer who would like to travel there but perhaps never will. The books provide accurate and up-to-date facts on such essentials as hotels and transport while enhancing the visitor's experience through insights into the local culture and natural history. To this end authors are chosen with care, not just for their writing ability but for their enthusiasm and love for the countries they are describing.
Since winning The Sunday Times Small Publisher of the Year Award in 1997, Bradt has continued to fill the demand for detailed, well-written guides to unusual destinations, while maintaining the company's original ethos: that adventurous travel is more enjoyable if the wishes of the local people are taken into consideration. |
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