Deadline: 16 November 2012
Tell us your views on the country, and how they changed during your trip (500-750 words). Grand Prize consists of $250 plus Bradt Travel Guides for Palestine and Israel. The winning article will be published in the 2013 Green Olive Tours booklet that is distributed throughout the world.
HOW TO ENTER:
FOLLOW OUR GUIDELINES:
THE JUDGING PROCESS:
THE JUDGE: Sarah Irving is a British freelance writer and editor specialising in the Middle East, travel, and the arts. She first visited Palestine/Israel in 1996 and has worked in Palestine as a human rights observer, fair trade product buyer, tour guide, journalist and travel writer on regular occasions since 2001. She is the author of three books on Palestine, including the Bradt Guide to Palestine, the most widely-available English-language guidebook to the West Bank, Gaza and Palestinian communities within Israel. She believes deeply in the contribution that ordinary people meeting ordinary Palestinians and Israelis, and seeing the situation on the ground for themselves can make to the international movement for a just and lasting peace in the region. All the entries to the competition will be loaded onto the Green Olive web site for you to enjoy, as per our Terms and Conditions.
THE WINNER WILL RECEIVE:
The guide books can be transferred as a gift to anyone designated by the winner.
The winning article will be published on Green Olive Tours' website and featured in the 2013 Green Olive Tours information booklet (tens of thousands of copies distributed world-wide annually).
As part of their support, Bradt Travel Guides is also offering a 25% discount for their Palestine or Israel travel guide to all entrants of the competition.
Entries deemed suitable will be published on the Green Olive Tours website.
The author's name and country will be published along with their article unless otherwise requested. Contact information is for the use of Green Olive Tours only and will not published.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS:
1. The competition is open to any traveler age 18 and over who has visited Palestine / Israel during the past five years.
2. Closing date for receipt of all entries is Friday 16th November 2012.
3. winner will receive a prize package consisting of $250 USD (payable via PayPal or wire transfer) along with copies of the Bradt Guides to Palestine and Israel (transferable as a gift)
4. The winning article will be published in the 2013 Green Olive Tours booklet that is distributed throughout the world.
5. To enter, submit your article consisting of 500-750 words via the official entry form.
6. An initial shortlist of ten entries will be selected on merit by a panel of reviewers appointed by Green Olive Tours (including at least one independent reviewer not affiliated with Green Olive Tours). The selected ten entries will be open to voting by the public via Green Olive Tours' website. The winner will be chosen by an independent judge from the three entries receiving the most votes.
7. Public voting will begin on Friday 23rd November 2012 and terminate on Friday 7th December 2012. To be eligible to vote, you must register for the free Green Olive Tours e-newsletter (distributed only fours times a year and features an opt-out in each issue) as your voting signature will be your registration e-mail. Only one vote is allowed per person.
8. The winner will be announced via the Green Olive Tours website by Friday 21st December 2012 and informed via contact information provided with the entry.
9. Green Olive Tours reserves the right to publish any entry on its website.
10. Entries limited to one per person.
11. Email addresses provided during entry or voting will be used solely to contact the competition winner, and to distribute our email newsletter (four times a year). Each newsletter has a clearly indicated 'unsubscribe' link. No contact information will be disclosed to 3rd parties
12. There is no alternative to the prize offered.
13. If for any reason a winner is unable to take the prize as offered, Green Olive Tours reserves the right to award the prize to the next best entry.
14. The judge's decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
For submissions: via the online entry form
Website: http://www.toursinenglish.com/
Tell us your views on the country, and how they changed during your trip (500-750 words). Grand Prize consists of $250 plus Bradt Travel Guides for Palestine and Israel. The winning article will be published in the 2013 Green Olive Tours booklet that is distributed throughout the world.
HOW TO ENTER:
- Tell us your views: How did they change during your trip? What is Palestine - Israel? - You decide.
- You can make us laugh, cry, sympathetic or angry.
- We want to see your definition of the country, based on your experiences - not a 'solution' to the conflict, or a 'future peace scenario', but a personal view of what the country is now, based on your experiences with the people.
- Think about your moment of change or evolution in your thinking. It could have been meeting a refugee, a conversation with a local resident, seeing the WALL for the first time, witnessing a checkpoint, meeting Israelis or Palestinians, or a night out in Tel Aviv or Ramallah. We are looking for a personal approach.
FOLLOW OUR GUIDELINES:
- Please title your entry.
- Entries should be between 500-750 words in length and your own original work.
- Entries not consisting of 500-750 words, not submitted via the official entry form and/or containing plagiarized work, will not be considered.
- Entries must be received no later than midnight Friday, 16th November, 2012.
THE JUDGING PROCESS:
- Semi-finalists: Ten entries will be selected for public voting by a panel of reviewers.
- You will be informed via email if your entry is selected
- The ten semi-finalists will be listed on our website on Friday 23rd November and promote voting via the website, newsletter and Social Media until Friday 7th December 2012.
- Finalists: The three entries receiving the most votes be become finalists and move on to judging by a professional travel writer.
- The competition winner will be announced on Friday 21st December, 2012.
THE JUDGE: Sarah Irving is a British freelance writer and editor specialising in the Middle East, travel, and the arts. She first visited Palestine/Israel in 1996 and has worked in Palestine as a human rights observer, fair trade product buyer, tour guide, journalist and travel writer on regular occasions since 2001. She is the author of three books on Palestine, including the Bradt Guide to Palestine, the most widely-available English-language guidebook to the West Bank, Gaza and Palestinian communities within Israel. She believes deeply in the contribution that ordinary people meeting ordinary Palestinians and Israelis, and seeing the situation on the ground for themselves can make to the international movement for a just and lasting peace in the region. All the entries to the competition will be loaded onto the Green Olive web site for you to enjoy, as per our Terms and Conditions.
THE WINNER WILL RECEIVE:
- US$250
- One copy of the Bradt guide to Palestine
- One copy of the Bradt guide to Israel
The guide books can be transferred as a gift to anyone designated by the winner.
The winning article will be published on Green Olive Tours' website and featured in the 2013 Green Olive Tours information booklet (tens of thousands of copies distributed world-wide annually).
As part of their support, Bradt Travel Guides is also offering a 25% discount for their Palestine or Israel travel guide to all entrants of the competition.
Entries deemed suitable will be published on the Green Olive Tours website.
The author's name and country will be published along with their article unless otherwise requested. Contact information is for the use of Green Olive Tours only and will not published.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS:
1. The competition is open to any traveler age 18 and over who has visited Palestine / Israel during the past five years.
2. Closing date for receipt of all entries is Friday 16th November 2012.
3. winner will receive a prize package consisting of $250 USD (payable via PayPal or wire transfer) along with copies of the Bradt Guides to Palestine and Israel (transferable as a gift)
4. The winning article will be published in the 2013 Green Olive Tours booklet that is distributed throughout the world.
5. To enter, submit your article consisting of 500-750 words via the official entry form.
6. An initial shortlist of ten entries will be selected on merit by a panel of reviewers appointed by Green Olive Tours (including at least one independent reviewer not affiliated with Green Olive Tours). The selected ten entries will be open to voting by the public via Green Olive Tours' website. The winner will be chosen by an independent judge from the three entries receiving the most votes.
7. Public voting will begin on Friday 23rd November 2012 and terminate on Friday 7th December 2012. To be eligible to vote, you must register for the free Green Olive Tours e-newsletter (distributed only fours times a year and features an opt-out in each issue) as your voting signature will be your registration e-mail. Only one vote is allowed per person.
8. The winner will be announced via the Green Olive Tours website by Friday 21st December 2012 and informed via contact information provided with the entry.
9. Green Olive Tours reserves the right to publish any entry on its website.
10. Entries limited to one per person.
11. Email addresses provided during entry or voting will be used solely to contact the competition winner, and to distribute our email newsletter (four times a year). Each newsletter has a clearly indicated 'unsubscribe' link. No contact information will be disclosed to 3rd parties
12. There is no alternative to the prize offered.
13. If for any reason a winner is unable to take the prize as offered, Green Olive Tours reserves the right to award the prize to the next best entry.
14. The judge's decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
For submissions: via the online entry form
Website: http://www.toursinenglish.com/
