She was travel editor of The Independent on Sunday from 2005 to 2012. Kate now runs Little Black Book Creative, which offers PR and editorial services to the travel industry, and she continues to write travel articles for The IoS, The Independent, National Geographic Traveller and other publications and websites. Kate has been a regular guest speaker at travel-writing workshops, runs her own occasional travel journalism course, and blogs about travel writing at traveltapper.com. She thinks travel writing shouldn’t be an elite sport, which is why she helped develop and judge the annual Independent on Sunday/Bradt travel-writing competition from 2005-2011. Kate has just returned from New Zealand, where she was writing judge of the 2014 Cathay Pacific Travel Media Awards.