Now in its 13th year, the LATA Media Awards recognise innovation and excellence across the British travel media landscape with a specific focus on Latin America. Celebrating and rewarding inspiring Latin America stories and photography, the winners of the Ecoventura LATA Media Awards 2016 were picked from over 140 entries by an esteemed panel of judges, all of whom have helped bring Latin America a little closer to the UK through their respective work. Judges included Hugh Thomson; award winning author and film maker, Eva Tarr-Kirkhope; founder and director of the Latin American Film Festival in London, Adrian Philips; MD of Bradt Guides, Simon Stafford; photography expert and technical editor of Nikon Owner magazine, and Byron Shirto; chairman of LATA.
The awards were announced at an event which took place on Tuesday 26 April at Peruvian restaurant, Lima Floral in central London in front of an audience made up of some of the UK's leading travel writers and photographers as well as LATA members.
Winners and runners-up are detailed below:
Consumer Newspaper Feature of the Year Award
Winner: Chris Moss, Is the writing on the wall for Cuba, The Sunday Telegraph
Runner up: Michael Kerr, How green was my valley, The Sunday Telegraph
Consumer Magazine Feature of the Year Award
Winner: Michelle Jana Chan, Born Trippy: Brazil's most awesome coast, Conde Nast Traveller
Joint runners up: Alex Robinson, Legal highs Rio, The Sunday Times Travel Magazine
Antonia Quirke, Flick the switch: barefoot shores are still as lo-fi as a box of frogs, Conde Nast Traveller
Trade Publication Feature of the Year Award
Winner: Katie McGonagle, Wild at Heart, Travel Weekly
Runner up: Katherine Lawrey, Wild times in the rainforest, TTG
Online Blog Feature of the Year Award
Joint winners: Emma Thomson, Amazon: Swimming with river dolphins, National Geographic Traveller
Glen Mutel, The Panama Canal: Crossing a Continent, National Geographic Traveller
Runner up: John Malathronas, On the old Patagonian Express, RoundTheWorldFlights
Top Published Photo of the Year Award
Joint winners: Graeme Green, Flight of the Condors, Wanderlust
Alex Robinson, Big trip Costa Rica, The Sunday Times Travel Magazine
Runner up: Renato Granieri, Elephant Seal Laughing, Press Association
Best Self-Published Award
Winner: Sorrel Moseley-Williams, Not just a pretty place: Salta's Calchaquí Valley, Jacada Travel
Runner up: Heather Richardson, 15 Reasons you won't forget a trip to the Galapagos Islands, Jacada Travel
