Frommer's Win Travel Guide of the Year 2008

Frommer's 3 December 2008

Frommer's Tuscany & Umbria with Your Family has won Best Travel Guide 2008 at the Italian State Tourist Board Travel Writing Awards. The family title overcame strong competition to take the top prize in a Gala Dinner held at the In and Out Club in St James Square, London.

The winning Frommer's title written by authors Donald Strachan and Stephen Keeling was singled out for the quality of its research, writing and opening up a new area in Italian tourism.

Frommer's were presented with the top award by ITV news presenter Mary Nightingale and Valerio Scoyni, Director Italian State Tourist Board.

The event was attended by the daughter and widow of legendary travel writer, Eric Newby CBE, author of some of the best books in the canon of English travel writing, notably A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush and Love and War in the Apennines.

Last year Frommer's won the Runner-up prize at the annual awards for Northern Italy with Your Family. The Runner-up this year was Time Out.

The Frommer's With Your Family collection are written by British authors and are the UK's leading destination-specific family guides. Priced at £12.99, the guides present in-depth and up to date information on the best family-friendly accommodation, dining, attractions and events. The books also provide lots of images and unique insider tips, ‘finds' and fun facts known only to locals, giving indispensable insights into the region. A new cluster of Frommer's With Your Family guidebooks to Wales, the Bay of Naples and the Amalfi Coast, Scotland, Cyprus and Turkey are due to launch in early 2009.

Author Information
Donald Strachan is a London-based writer, editor and copywriter. He is the co-author of Frommer's The Balearics With Your Family. He has written for the Sunday Telegraph, the Observer, the Independent on Sunday, and the Sydney Morning Herald, among others.

Stephen Keeling grew up in England, lived briefly in Latvia and spent 12 years as a financial journalist in Asia. Despite attempts to kick his gelato addiction, he has been to Italy many times - an incomparable knowledge of Tuscan Chinese restaurants formed while chaperoning a group of Vietnamese officials in 1994. Stephen has written travel guidebooks on Taiwan, Spain, Mexico and Puerto Rico, and currently lives in New York City.

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