Sarah Turner

Sarah Turner’s work brings a fresh perspective to travel journalism. Her articles - across both broadsheet and tabloid newspapers - often examine trends, including emerging destinations, design and regenerative tourism. She excels at providing compelling stories about people and places while also analysing a complex and powerful industry with insight and humour; ensuring readers are entertained and in a position to make informed decisions about their holiday destinations.

For the Financial Times, ‘Conviviality in Copenhagen’ examines a hotel with a novel aim of bringing locals and visitors together through a high quality, highly subsidised communal meal each evening alongside other activities. Sarah secured the first UK interview with Kanalhuset’s owner Lennart Lajboschitz, also the founder of the Flying Tiger retail group, where he was able to explain the social action ideals behind it. ‘From Coal to Culture’ - also for the Financial Times - explores the hugely ambitious regeneration project currently taking place in the County Durham town of Bishop Auckland, thanks to financier Jonathan Ruffer’s £200m charitable donation; ‘a spending spree which includes Spanish Old Masters, hotels, holiday cottages, formal gardens, pyrotechnics, a tapas bar and a troop of choreographed geese.’

The third submitted article dives into the North American city of Savannah and appeared in The Times. Sarah’s article about a city ‘with polite architecture and a sobering history’ moves beyond straightforward destination writing to examine and celebrate its current artistic rebirth.