Jessica Stockwell

Location: JEDDAH Saudi Arabia, Middle East and US based, United States

Member Since: 13 July 2003

Professional Associations

 Travelwriters.com

Introduction

I'm a Middle East based freelancer - writer/photographer/videographer who has established a comfort level with moving around the region and a portfolio of industry contacts. I'm familiar with Arabic and sensitive to cultural, social and religious customs and traditions and attentive to present information in an 'appropriate' balanced, neutural manner. If you are looking for public and private transportation insight, tourism, business or luxury travel trends and entrepreneurial business, travel and lifestyle feature stories, I'm a great lead in and/or resource to facilitate access and coverage. I'm mobile and specialize in onsite, and in the field as a backgrounder and scout for stories and current news and newsmakers. I work well on assignment and with short term client projects as part of a team.

Experience & Expertise

I'm uniquely positioned to cover the Middle East region and North and East Africa. I have been traveling the regions for four years collecting and documenting the development and growth of the travel and tourism industry from a public/private and economic view. I look for trends and threads of sustainable business practices to validate public project and development projections. I have established a reputation as a sought after journalist/writer for informal interviews and gathering travel, tourism and entrepreneurial news and information.

Publishing Credentials

Middle East Based Writer/Jounalist/Editor 2005-present. - Executive Editor and co-founder - DESTINATION JEDDAH Magazine - First English Monthly tourism/lifestlye guide. Features Editor - SAUDI GAZETTE, a national English daily produced by the Saudi Based Okaz Publishing. www.saudigazette.com.sa Main writer, photographer, researcher for stories, interviews and tourism industry coverage. First to start dedicated 'travel section' in national English language paper. businesstravel.com, - published AUTHOR of 2 travel lifestyle books St. Barthelemy Press - DARE to Travel the World (2001) - LiVE and Travel Well (2002/2003)

Awards Received

- (NATJA)- North American Travel Journalist AUTHOR OF THE YEAR 2002. - Georgia Author of the Year 2003 award nominee