{{Nyungwe forest has been named winner of the British Guild of Travel Writers\u2019 top Globe Award (BGTW), at the Guild\u2019s prestigious annual awards dinner in London\u2019s Savoy Hotel on the night of November 04.}}<\/p>\n
Sited in south-west, the Rwanda Development Board (RDB) project was praised for harmonising tourism, wildlife, environmental and agrarian development in one of Africa\u2019s last surviving patches of primeval pre-Ice Age rainforests. <\/p>\n
The project was described as one of the world\u2019s richest and most diverse eco-systems and home to 25 percent of all of Africa\u2019s primates.<\/p>\n
In presenting the award, Guild Chair Roger Bray said: \u201cNyungwe Nziza is a model tourism project for developing countries whose benefits will long outlast this or subsequent governments.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Nyungwe project also came first in the awards\u2019 Wider World category where the two runners up were central Georgia\u2019s Borjomi-Kharagauli National Park, nominated by Peter Lynch, and San Antonio, Texas\u2019s Morgan\u2019s Wonderland, nominated by Mary Moore Mason.<\/p>\n
The former project, sited in the largest true wilderness area in continental Europe, has opened up accommodation, bridges and foot, bike and horseback trails to the public in the last few years, and the latter project is the world\u2019s first theme park designed specifically for physically and mentally disabled people.<\/p>\n
Other major awards \u2013all given to tourism projects completed in the past three years \u2013 went to Greenwich\u2019s Cutty Sark Restoration and to France\u2019s Loire \u00e0 V\u00e9lo cycle trail.<\/p>\n
The BGTW also presented travel writing and photography awards, selected by an outside jury, to its own members during the evening, which was attended by some 300 top travel industry and media representatives. <\/p>\n
It was sponsored by the city of Las Vegas, which presented an array of glittering entertainment.<\/p>\n
The runners up were Glasgow\u2019s Riverside Transport Museum, nominated by David Prest, and Edinburgh\u2019s Extended and Improved Museum of Scotland., nominated by Paul Wade. <\/p>\n
The former is an outstanding collection of vintage cars, ships and boats set in a bold Zaheer Habib-designed building and the latter, the UK\u2019s most visited attraction outside London, has integrated two adjacent museums into one, adding 16 new galleries and displaying 8,000 objects for the first time.<\/p>\n
The third category \u2013 for the best new European tourism attraction \u2013 was nominated by Gillian Thornton and honoured the completion of the safe, 800km Loire \u00e0 V\u00e9lo cycle trail from Nevers to the Atlantic after 10 years of work by two French regions and six d\u00e9partements.<\/p>\n
The runners up were France\u2019s totally revamped Toulouse Lautrec Museum, set in the UNESCO World Heritage town of Albi, and the Museum aan de Strom (Museum of the River) in Antwerp, Belgium.<\/p>\n
Nominated by Kathy Arnold, the first attraction contains the world\u2019s largest collection \u2013 some 1,000 paintings \u2013 by world-renowned artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. <\/p>\n
The second attraction, nominated by Stuart Forster and housing some 450,000 historical artefacts and works of art, has helped regenerate what had been the abandoned docklands north of central Antwerp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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