Pamela Wade

Cathay Pacific Travel Writer of the Year 2009

Freelance Writer and Photographer and Judged Writer of the Year 2009 in the Cathay Pacific Travel Media Awards for her story about Glasgow; another about Edinburgh was a finalist in the same category.

Her work is published throughout New Zealand in all major daily and provincial newspapers, both the Sunday Star-Times and Herald on Sunday, and The Australian, The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald.

Her stories have also featured in the magazines Destinations, Inspire, Next, NZ Listener, Luxury, New Idea, Her, AA Directions, Women's Health, Coastlines, Journeys and Top Gear (NZ).

She has written columns, features, book and car reviews, but travel is her passion: the more hands-on, the better, whether that involves coming eye-to-eye with a bear in the woods or sleeping in a haunted Scottish castle.

Overseas destinations visited this year include Australia, Thailand, China, Ecuador, the UK and India, contributing to a total of almost 30 countries about which she is able to write.

A selection of high-resolution, raw format photographs is normally offered for publication with her stories.