The shortlists for each category in the LATA Media Awards 2024 are as follows:
Best LATA Member Content
- Sally Wells – Meet Costa Rica’s Changemakers: How a Dairy Farm Innovated Costa Rica’s First High-altitude Reforestation Project – Journey Costa Rica
- Kate Brock – Lost & Found – Audley Traveller
- Sarah Groen – Luxury Travel Insider Social Media Reel to Promote Podcast – Journey Costa Rica
Best Latin America feature – trade press
- Andrew McQuarrie – Positively Peru – Travel Weekly
- Mark Stratton – ‘The Obsession with Sending Clients just to Machu Picchu is Lazy’ – TTG
- Rebecca Miles – ‘Timeless Yet Future-Proof’: How Costa Rica Nails Responsible Tourism – TTG
Best Latin America Travel Blog or Podcast
- Petra Shepherd – Exploring Guyana: South America’s Wild Frontier – Trip Reporter
- Sophie Davis – 10 days in Peru – Sophie’s Suitcase
- Vanessa Ball – Cool Things to Do Getsemani Cartagena: The Hip Urban Art Barrio – She Wanders Miles
Best Latin American Travel Feature – magazine (online or print)
- Amelia Duggan – “The ultimate Costa Rican Adventure” – National Geographic Traveller
- George Kipouros – The Land Without Evil – Wanderlust
- Jamie Lafferty – Bolivia: Taking the high road – National Geographic Traveller
- Sarah Marshall – “Life in the saddle” – National Geographic Traveller
- Sorrel Moseley-Williams – Into the Fold – Food by National Geographic Traveller
- Steph Dyson – The New Superstars – JRNY Magazine
Best Latin America Travel Feature – newspaper or news outlet (online or print)
- Emma Featherstone – An unsung land of giants – The i
- Sarah Marshall – Evolution of the Galapagos – The Sunday Times
- Sarah Marshall – The underrated alternative to the Galapagos – The Sunday Times
- Shafik Meghji – A road trip to the edge of the Earth – BBC Travel
Best Published Latin America Travel Image
- Giulia Verdinelli – Photo story: savouring the street food of Oaxaca, Mexico – National Geographic Traveller
- Karolina Wiercigroch – Lima: A Culinary Renaissance – National Geographic Traveller
- Kav Dadfar – The Road to the Moon – JRNY Magazine
- Jamie Lafferty – The ultimate Andes road trip, from Chile to Bolivia – National Geographic Traveller
Best Specialist Feature (with a focus on conservation, community a/o sustainability)
- Imogen Lepere – “It takes a village.” – Suitcase Magazine
- Mark Stratton – Wing and a Prayer – The Geographical Magazine
- Shafik Meghji – Ghost Cats: Transforming attitudes to Pumas – Geographical Magazine
- Stanley Stewart – “On the trail of Brazil’s elusive maned wolf” – The Financial Times
- Sarah Marshall – Walk on the wilder side – Harrods
Best use of Social Media and Video
- Alex Outhwaite – Lares Trek – High altitude trek in Peru – Alex Outhwaite YouTube
- Alex Outhwaite – A trip to the Tarapaca, Chile – Alex Outhwaite Instagram
- Vanessa Ball – Slow Travel Through Ecuador, The Galapagos and Peru: Stories of Unique Wildlife, Adventure Travel and Cultural Immersion – She Wanders Miles Instagram
- Sophie Davis – How to get to Machu Picchu Peru and everything you need to know – Sophie’s Suitcase YouTube
Winners will be announced on 24 September at Gaucho Piccadilly. For details of the event and how to register for a place, please click here.