Monday, January 29, 2007

BRADES, Montserrat: A top travel journalist has scooped a major award for a feature article she wrote on Montserrat.

Laura Paquet picked up the first prize from the North American Travel Journalists Association (NATJA).

The three-page cover feature on Montserrat was published in the Ottawa Citizen newspaper on September 9th, 2006, following a visit to the island by Ms Paquet in mid 2006.

The main feature entitled “Mellow Montserrat: Sleepy doesn’t begin to describe this idyllic island” highlighted the main tourism products of the island.

In another piece captioned “Under the Volcano: Montserrat Guesthouse Offers Heavenly Suite” Paquet focused on Gingerbread Hill and in the final feature entitled “Do the walk of life:…and the other four top things to do on Montserrat.” She listed the top five things as hiking with Mappie, “chewing the fat” with Danny Sweeney, seeing Plymouth, kayaking to Rendezvous Beach and sampling the barbeque at the Vue Pointe Hotel.

The North American Travel Journalists Association is the premier professional association of writers, photographers, and editors dedicated to redefining professional development for the travel industry.

NATJA was founded in 1991 by New Jersey travel writers Bob Nesoff and Dan Schlossberg as a non-political organization.

Professors from Fairleigh Dickinson's School of Art & Media Studies judged the award entries.

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