Lara Dunston

Location: Dubai, Dubai, UAE

Member Since: 17 April 2007

Professional Associations

 Travelwriters.com

Introduction

Perpetually on the move, I'm a widely-published travel writer with experience in some 60 countries and a portfolio of 40 guide books for Lonely Planet and Dorling Kindersley; scores of travel features for magazines such as National Geographic Traveler, Lifestyle+Travel Get Lost, and Paperplane, and newspapers from The Independent to USA Today; along with contributions to travel reference and coffee table books, digital content, walking tours, podcasts, hotel reviews for booking sites, destination videos, and travel blogs. Based in Dubai, I've written on destinations all over the globe. In the last 3 years I have travelled to over 30 countries for assignments with my co-writer/husband and photographer Terry Carter. Now in our 33rd month on the move, we recently finished books on Dubai, Cyprus, Crete, and Italy.

Experience & Expertise

I write with husband Terry Carter, a professional photographer. We've been based in the UAE since 1998, although our work has kept us on the road continuously for almost 3 years (we call into Dubai every few months to check our mail, catch up on the latest hotel and restaurant openings, and write another book!) We have been travelling together for around 18 years and during that have traversed the length and breadth of the Middle East, Europe, Australia, and Latin America, living in Buenos Aires, Amsterdam and Brussels while researching books. We've experienced around 60 countries including Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Latvia, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Macau, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Oman, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Russia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Thailand, Turkey, UK, USA and Uruguay.

Publishing Credentials

National Geographic Traveler; Lifestyle+Travel; Wanderlust; Get Lost; Paperplane; The Independent; USA Today; in-flight magazines such as Garuda, Emirates Open Skies, Gulf Air's Gulf Life, Jazeera Airway's magazine and Hemispheres; hotel magazines including MGM Mirage's M Lifestyle, Ritz-Carlton, and Voyageur magazine; Middle East magazines 360 and Canvas; papers such as Sydney Morning Herald, Melbourne Age and Sunday Telegraph; syndication in dozens of US papers, including Houston Chronicle, Arizona Daily Star, New York Albany Times Union, Chicago Tribune, Salt Lake Tribune, etc; digital content for Triporati and Sherman's, articles for TravelNineMSN website; digital content for Lonely Planet including Paris Walking Tours for SONY PSP Passport to Paris, blogs, hundreds of hotel reviews for their accommodation website; along with presentation of destination videos for Lonely Planet TV; and 40 travel guidebooks and other content for DK, Lonely Planet, Footprint, Rough Guides, Insight, AA Guides, Thomas Cook Publishing, Fodors, and Thumbnail Guides, as well as contributions to coffee table books such as The Asia Book, Bluelist, etc. My articles are available at http://www.mediabistro.com/laradunston/ Also see my blog COOL TRAVEL GUIDE http://www.cooltravelguide.blogspot.com/

Awards Received

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Clips & Samples (View All 14)

 Buenos Aires Guide, Paperplane

 Dubai Tourism Takes Off: Dubai Promotes Tourism, USA Today, 9/27/2006

 Shopping the Muttrah Souk & The Sultans of Hospitality, Lifestyle+Travel magazine, June 2006

 Beirut is Buzzing, Lifestyle+Travel, June 2006

 48 Hours in Muscat, The Independent newspaper (London) 7 October 2006