Kate Simon
Kate Simon has worked as a journalist in national newspapers and magazines for 40 years. She was the Travel Editor of the Independent on Sunday from 2005 to 2012 and has also written for The Guardian , The Telegraph and The i . She has spent more than a quarter of a century sampling hundreds of tourism experiences around the world, assessing them from a traveller's point of view, and has been a judge for both travel writing and tourism industry competitions. Kate is the co-author of two...See more
Kate Simon has worked as a journalist in national newspapers and magazines for 40 years. She was the Travel Editor of the Independent on Sunday from 2005 to 2012 and has also written for The Guardian , The Telegraph and The i . She has spent more than a quarter of a century sampling hundreds of tourism experiences around the world, assessing them from a traveller's point of view, and has been a judge for both travel writing and tourism industry competitions. Kate is the co-author of two previous books, How To Pack For Any Trip (Lonely Planet, 2016) and Slow Travel Cheshire (Bradt, 2018). She is a co-founder of Equality in Tourism, a charity dedicated to ensuring women have an equal voice in global tourism. See less
