About Chris McBeath
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Travel writer Chris McBeath has worked aboard cruise ships, opened hotels, managed convention centers, marketed spas and spa resorts, and written guide books and travel articles on nearly every aspect of travel.
This makes Chris an astute observer of the travel experience with an insider’s eye to customer services, comfort and hospitality.
For this reason, Chris is asked regularly to consult to both the hotel and spa industry on operational, design, management and sales issues, and is considered one of the foremost experts in the evolution of the spa wellness movement and what it takes to create a successful spa.
As an award-winning travel journalist, photographer, and spa specialist, Chris McBeath writes for television on travel and spa wellness; for the Internet, and for tourism industry and consumer travel magazines around the world.
From exotic locations in Malaysia, Africa, and the Caribbean to sunsets on your own doorstep, Chris McBeath’s travel photography accompanies her travel articles and spa stories on spa resorts around the world.
Chris McBeath also works with professional photographer and travel journalist Bill Vanderford. Through Travelink Publishing, they publish guide books, photo books, greeting cards, travel photo postcards, and how-to books on fishing, sports car racing, and spas. They also have retail items available through Grapefruit Studios at Cafepress.
Professional Associations
Chris is a member of several professional associations including:•Professional Writers Association of Canada
•Canadian Public Relations Society
•Society of American Travel Writers
•Travel Media Association of Canada
•North American Travel Journalists Association
•Travelwriters.com
Publications
Bylines include: African Access, Arkansas Gazette, Association, The Canada Travel Magazine, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle-Herald, Common Ground, Forsyth News, HolidayMaker, Hospitality, Inn Focus, Innkeeping World, InnSpire, London Free Press, Meetings & Incentive Travel, Publican, Pulse, Spa Business, Spa Life, Seattle Magazine, Shared Vision, 24-Hours, Time Out Guides, Trips, Toronto Star, Vancouver Sun, Weissman Travel Reports, Where Magazine (columnist), West Ender, and World Hospitality. Through Travelink’s greatestgetaways concept, articles also appear regularly in a network of community newspapers throughout the Pacific Northwest, and across Canada.Travel Books
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• Author, Frommers expanded Guide Vancouver Island, Gulf Islands and San Juan Islands (2009)
• Author, Frommers Pocket Guide to Vancouver Island, Gulf Islands and San Juan Islands (2007)
•Co-author Fodors The Carolinas & Georgia – (2007)
•Author, Dummies Guide to Vancouver & Victoria (2005)
•Co-author Fodors Gold Guide to British Columbia (2006 & 2004)
•Author The Magic of Greater Vancouver, distributed by Raincoast of Canada
•Contributor to Cruise Ships – The Inside Story, published by Collins of Canada and Bon Voyage – the Cruise Traveler’s Passport
•Contributing writer to The Vancouver Book
Tourism
Portfolio / Client List (partial)Advantage Travel, Air Transat Holidays, Canadian Tourism Commission, Delta Hotels & Resorts-Whistler, Holiday Inns International, Leading Spas of Canada, Lifestyle Vacations, Resorts to Wellness, Over Canada, Tourism British Columbia, Tourism Richmond, Tourism Vancouver, Vancouver Coast & Mountains Tourism Association, Vancouver Trade & Exhibition Centre