Introducing the 2025 TGA Travel Writer of the Year
The Travel Goods Association (TGA) proudly announced the winners of the 2025 TGA Show Awards at this year’s Travel Goods Show, celebrating the brands, creators, and storytellers who are shaping the future of how the world sees travel. These awards honor true excellence – earned through authenticity, innovation, and impact.
The award itself carries deep symbolism: a preserved window from a decommissioned Boeing 737. It represents perspective, the miles traveled, and the clarity creators bring to an ever-changing landscape. Just as an aircraft window frames the world in motion, this year’s winners have helped frame the stories, ideas, and inspiration that move our industry forward.
This year also marks the debut of the TGA Writer of the Year award — and the inaugural honor goes to Lark Gold, whose work has elevated travel journalism across the industry. Through insightful reporting, sharp storytelling, and a distinctive voice, Lark has helped readers better understand the people, brands, and experiences that define modern travel.
You can read Lark's featured article in the newly released Winter 2025 Issue of the TGA Magazine here.
About Lark Gould
Lark Gould, recently named Travel Writer of the Year by Travel Goods Magazine, is an award-winning journalist and veteran travel writer. She got her start in journalism the hard way: traveling through wars and famine in the Horn of Africa; embedding with rebel armies, tracing immense and embattled diasporas, catching the stories mainstream media missed. All this in an era before computers, smartphones and social media. Her news clips include the Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Providence Journal, Los Angeles Times, AP, UPI, Reuters and many more.
Over the decades she turned her global travel experiences and incisive reporting skills toward covering the travel industry just as the age of mass tourism was igniting, with beats that included Africa and the Middle East to East Asia, India, the Austral Pacific and onward — not forgetting great stories about traveling in America. She has served as a top editor for metros, magazinesand several national travel industry journals, and continues to publish her work with regularity in such outlets as Travel Pulse, Business Traveler and Travel-Intel. She is also the author of some ten books — and is soon to publish a nonfiction narrative covering her early years in Ethiopia and Sudan.
To stay current, Lark continues to hone complementary skills in digital marketing, SEO, and content distribution to assist entrepreneurs in promoting their travel-related products. She holds a master’s degree in editorial journalism and has accrued a solid list of writing awards and projects for her work. She reports from her office in Los Angeles.