Award-winning travel journalist and author

44 years of travel journalism. Author of 39 guidebooks. 140+ countries visited. Published in The Sunday Times, The Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, Daily Mail, Wall Street Journal, The Scotsman, and The Herald.

About Katie

Katie Wood is an award-winning travel journalist and author with 44 years of experience, 39 published guidebooks, and travel in more than 140 countries. She has written for The Sunday Times, The Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, and other major newspapers.

Katie now focuses on selected writing, editing, and consulting projects from her base in Scotland.

• 39 travel guidebooks authored
• 140+ countries visited
• 44 years of travel journalism
• Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
• Former Travel Editor roles across the UK national press

Work undertaken:

• Press trips — Destination press trips and familiarisation visits.
• Editorial commissions — Travel features and destination pieces.
• Travel content editing & ghostwriting — Editing, polishing, and ghostwriting.
• Destination & tourism consulting (remote) — Remote consulting for destinations, tourism boards, and travel brands.
• Broadcasting — TV and radio presenting, scripting, and editing for travel programmes.

Broadcasting

Katie presented travel slots on ITV’s ‘Wish You Were Here’, Sky TV and for several years was the anchor presenter on a programme she devised for Scottish Television.

‘Scottish Passport’ took her all over the world and was nominated for a Scottish BAFTA. It was a prime time success and Katie wrote the scripts, presented and edited for the show.

For over a decade she was the resident travel expert for the BBC Scotland radio programme ‘Travel Time’.

Guidebooks

Katie has written 39 guidebooks on everything from backpacking to luxurious hotels. Her first book ‘Europe by Train’ was translated into several languages and was in the ‘Sunday Times Top Ten Best Seller List’ for many months.

Get in touch

For press trips, editorial commissions, content editing, or destination consulting, get in touch with Katie.

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