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ABOUT TRAVEL LISTS



Who is Travel-Lists?

Travel-Lists.co.uk is Alastair McKenzie. It is mostly a one-man operation, with help from additional professional travel journalists at busy times.


OK. So who is Alastair McKenzie, then?

Alastair McKenzie

An ex-broadcaster turned to the Internet.

Previously Alastair was Travel Editor at the world's largest commercial radio station, Classic FM. For six years he was responsible for producing and presenting the Classic Travel Guide on Classic FM, a weekly one-hour travel programme which reached a national audience of almost 1/4 million (per edition) in the UK and which visited between 80-100 worldwide destinations per annum. It was also broadcast on Classic FM in the Netherlands, South Africa, & Tokyo.

Before Classic FM Alastair worked for a large Independent Local Radio station in the UK where he was responsible for producing and presenting a string of successful speech-based programmes, including two travel programmes a business programme and a personal finance programme.

Alastair has worked as a freelance print journalist specialising in both Travel and New Media for a number of leisure & business publications including Film-makers Guide, International Living and Marketing Week. He writes a monthly business travel column for the Institute of Directors' magazine, The Director.

Alastair is an executive member of the British Guild of Travel Writers, responsible for the guild's website and Travel Industry Database. He also works as a freelance web editor & podcast journalist. And has a blog: Travelling Online.