JANET FORMAN

Winner of more than sixty writing and photography awards including two gold and one silver Lowell Thomas Gold Medals, the 2011 Bill Muster Photo Portfolio Gold Medal, named Premier Traveler magazine’s Most Compelling Woman in Travel 2015, and Pacific Asia Travel Association Journalist of the Year 2000.

Selected Awards

• 2019 First Place, Best Newspaper Article, SATW Eastern Chapter Writing contest What to do During Sweden’s Magical Summer Interlude, Globe and Mail
• 2021 SOLAS Bronze Back Stairs to the Billionaire’s Belt at Oil Nut Bay, Virgin Gorda BVI
• 2017 First Place SATW Eastern Chapter Writing Award Best Magazine article for It’s All Happening in Helsinki
• 2016 Gold Award North American Travel Journalism Association Travel Media Awards Competition, Travel Series – Print Publication Boeing Trailblazers
• 2016 Gold Award North American Travel Journalism Association Travel Media Awards Competition, Historical Travel – Print Publication Boeing Trailblazers
• 2019 Sweden’s Magical Summer Interlude, Globe and Mail NATJA Travel Media Awards 2018 Lifestyle, Personality and Profiles – Print Publication category Honorable Mention
• 2019 Beyond the bucket list: Scared Valley Peru, HipSilver NATJA Travel Media Awards 2018 Health and Wellness Travel – Online Publication category Honorable Mention

• 2016 First Place History category SATW Eastern Chapter The Women of Boeing in Premier Traveler
• 2016 First Place More Than One Destination SATW Eastern Chapter Hands On Vacation in Premier Traveler
• 2016 Second Place Misc. Category SATW Eastern Chapter Hands On Vacation in Premier Traveler
• 2016 Silver NATJA Byline Column for Editor’s Letter Premier Traveler
• 2015 Named one of Premier Traveler magazine’s Most Compelling Women in Travel
• P.A.T.A JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR 2000 for her body of work on Asia.
• First Place SATW Eastern Chapter 2015 Romance “Editor’s Letter” November/December 2014 Premier Traveler
• GOLD MEDAL 2014 Bill Muster Photo Competition Best Cultural Photo. Naples
• GOLD MEDAL 2011 Bill Muster Photo Competition Single Subject Portfolio Abu Dhabi and Oman
• Second Place SATW Eastern Chapter 2015 Food Category “Food for Flight” Premier Traveler
• First Place SATW Eastern Chapter 2014 Best Magazine Article Foreign Travel “The World’s A Stage” Premier Traveler
• First Place SATW Eastern Chapter 2014 Best In Depth Coverage on a Travel Related Theme “Series on Women in Travel” Premier Traveler
• Second Place SATW Eastern Chapter 2014 The Business of Travel Travel “Meet in the Cloud Forest” Premier Traveler
• Second Place SATW Eastern Chapter 2014 Photography Action “Shark Tank” Premier Traveler
• First Place SATW Eastern Chapter 2013 Best Magazine Article US Travel “Buddy Up” Premier Traveler
• First Place SATW Eastern Chapter 2013 Best Magazine Article Foreign Travel Travel “Hidden Corners of Qatar” Premier Traveler
• GOLD MEDAL, Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award, 1997, BEST CULTURAL TOURISM ARTICLE, Cartoon Fever in Belgium, Diversion magazine.
• ·      GOLD MEDAL, Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award, 1996, for the film POST CARD From Vietnam

• 2013 SATW Eastern Chapter Writing Award: Best magazine article U.S. Travel “Buddy Up” Premier Traveler
• 2013 SATW Eastern Chapter Writing Award: Best magazine article Foreign Travel “The Hidden Corners of Qatar” Premier Traveler

• SILVER MEDAL, Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award 2008, Best Newspaper story on US/Canada Travel, “Oh, Men and Their Spas” Globe and Mail.
• SOLAS AWARD 2010 Honorable Mention “Global Giving” Business Traveler, “This Old House” Globe and Mail
• SOLAS AWARD 2009 BRONZE Travel & Food “Asia’s Back Street Food”
• SOLAS AWARD 2007 SILVER Travel & Shopping “Harlem Couture”
• SOLAS AWARD 2007 BRONZE Sports “The Cresta Run”
• SOLAS AWARDS 2007 HONORABLE MENTIONS “Myanmar Days” and “Hanoi Cooking: Didier Corlou’s Gallic Wand.”
• Bill Muster Photo Award 2005 Natural Scenics, Halong Bay, Vietnam
• LOWELL THOMAS AWARD 2004, CULTURAL TOURISM Honorable Mention for “Juke Joint Jumpin’” Discovery Magazine
• LOWELL THOMAS AWARD, 2002, CULTURAL TOURISM Honorable Mention for Harlem, The Oregonian.
• BEST NEWSPAPER STORY OF THE YEAR 2002, Belgian Tourist Office, Behind Abbey Walls, The Sunday Record.

• GRAND PRIZE, North American Travel Journalists Association Competition 1998, Raise a Glass to Belgium’s Breweries, Blue Wings – Finnair in-flight.
• SOLAS AWARDS 2008 “Catskills Cooking” “Los Feliz and Silver Lake” Honorable Mention
• 11 FIRST PRIZES in the North American Travel Journalists Association Competition, 1995 – 99 for: Positively Penang, Going Places – Malaysia Airlines in-flight; Palau: Familiar Exotic, The World and I; Williamsburg, Brooklyn Under the Radar, The Sunday Record; Global Hooky: Hong Kong, New York; Los Angeles, Report on Business Magazine; New York’s Bohemian Trail, The Globe and Mail; Let Them See You Sweat, Report on Business Magazine; The Stockholm Archipelago, Copley News Service; Next Stop: Squaresville, The Globe and Mail; Where Philosphy’s an Honored Guest, The Globe and Mail; Cartoon Fever in Belgium, Diversion; and the film, POST CARD From Vietnam.
• HONORABLE MENTION, National Magazine Award (Canada), 1999, A Spy Checks In, Report on Business Magazine.

• SECOND PRIZE international journalism competition sponsored by South African Tourist Board and South African Airlines for SOUTH AFRICA, 1995.