Every year, the annual ITB Book Awards recognise tourism publications from Germany and abroad, mainly in German, but also in German translation.
Award winners include the authors Prof. Dr. Markus Rex, Prof. Terje Tvedt, Jochen Wiede, Simon Winder, Erik Fosnes, Ebba D. Drolshagen, Susanne Philipps, Dr. Andreas von Hessberg, Uri Jeremias and Hans Sautter. The Lifetime Award goes to Clemens Schussler from the Munich publishing house GeraNova Bruckmann.
Every year, the annual ITB Book Awards recognise tourism publications from Germany and abroad, mainly in German, but also in German translation. The aim is to focus attention beyond national borders on a broad spectrum of important travel and tourism publications. In 2021, ITB Berlin is again partnering with Borsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels. The ITB Book Awards do not confer prize money.
In the run-up to ITB Berlin NOW 2021, which due to the pandemic will be an entirely virtual event and will not be holding an awards ceremony, in December 2020 the large-format wall calendar ‘Japan 2021 – Land of the Rising Sun’ (Weingarten/Athesia Kalenderverlag) was picked for the Travel Calendar Award. It offers a foretaste of the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo. Other titles in the categories ’Cultures’ and ’Management Award of ITB Berlin’ are dedicated to the far-east destination of Japan.
ITB Book Awards 2021:
Categories, award winners and publishers
Destinations Award: Bhutan
Dr. Andreas von Hessberg | Trescher Verlag
‘Bhutan’
Sustainable Responsibility
Prof. Dr. Markus Rex | Verlag C.Bertelsmann
‘Eingefroren am Nordpol – Das Logbuch von der Polarstern’
Esther Horvath, Sebastian Grote, Katharina Weiss-Tuider
Prestel Verlag
‘Bildband Expedition Arktis – Die gro?te Forschungsreise aller Zeiten’
Background information: Silk Road
Dr. Susan Whitfield (Hg.) | WBG THEISS Verlag
’Die Seidenstra?e – Landschaften und Geschichte’
Special travel books
Prof. Terje Tvedt | C.H. Links Verlag
‘Der Nil – Fluss der Geschichte’
Jochen Wiede | marix/Verlagshaus Romerweg for the titles:
’Abendlandische Gartenkultur – Sehnsucht nach Landschaft seit der Antike’,
’Fernostliche Gartenkultur – Geheimnisvolle Garten Chinas und Japans’,
’Orientalisch-Persische Gartenkultur – Paradiese und der Garten im Islam’
Literary travel books
Simon Winder, translated by Nathalie Lemmens | Siedler Verlag
‘Herzland – Eine Reise durch Europas historische Mitte zwischen Frankreich und Deutschland’
Erik Fosnes Hansen, Ebba D. Drolshagen
Corso/Verlagshaus Romerweg
‘Oslo mit anderen Worten – Literarische Reise in eine magische Stadt’
Illustrated travel books
Heribert Niehues | Delius Klasing Verlag
‘Poesie der Verganglichkeit – Lost Places in den USA’
Jonny Keeling, Scott Alexander | Verlag Frederking & Thaler
‘Sieben Kontinente – Ein Planet. Einzigartige Naturwunder unserer Erde’
Travelling with children
Publishers: Robert Klanten, Andrea Servert, Austin Sailsbury
Gestalten Verlag
‘Familienabenteuer – Einmalige Erlebnisse und Urlaub mit Kindern’
Travel cookbooks
Manuela Darling-Gansser | Knesebeck Verlag
‘Pardiz – Die Kuche Persiens’
Uri Jeremias, Matthias F. Mangold, Verlag Grafe und Unzer
‘Uri Buri – Meine Kuche’
Cultures
Susanne Phillipps | MANA-Verlag
‘Japan – Alles, was Sie uber Japan wissen mussen’
Axel Schwab | Conbook Verlag
‘Labyrinth Tokio’
LifetimeAward – publishers 2021
Clemens Schussler
Publisher: Verlagshaus GeraNova Bruckmann
Travel calendar
Weingarten/Athesia Kalenderverlag
‘Japan 2021’
Specialist tourism literature
Prof. Dr. Torsten Kirstges | utb./UVK Verlag
‘Tourismus in der Kritik’
Non-fictional tourism literature
Prof. Dr. Rainer Hartmann (publisher) | De Gruyter Oldenbourg Verlag
‘Tourismus in Afrika – Chancen und Herausforderungen einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung’
Maps, atlases, knowledge
Dorling Kindersley Verlag
‘Die Geschichte der Welt in Karten’
Prof. Wolfgang Struck, Prof. Iris Schroeder, Felix Schurmann,
Elena Stirtz
Corso/Verlagshaus Romerweg
‘Karten, Meere – Eine Welterzeugung’
Management Award of ITB Berlin
Hans Sautter | Verlag Frederking & Thaler
‘Bildband Japan’
Kunth Verlag
‘Bildband Monumental – Architektur der Jahrtausende’
The members of the jury of the ITB Book Awards 2021 are:
- David Ruetz (chair), head of ITB Berlin
- Eckart Baier, chief editor, Buchjournal
- Cornelia Camen, editor, BuchMarkt
- Prof. Dr. Roland Conrady, Hochschule Worms
- Prof. Dr. Rainer Hartmann, Hochschule Bremen
- Rika Jean-Francois, ITB Corporate Social Responsibility
- Katrin Langrehr, ITB head of Marketing & Administration
- Regine Kiepert, Schropp Land & Karte
- Martina Kraus, RavensBuch
- Burghard Rauschelbach, consultant, Sustainable Tourism
- Raphaela Sabel, journalist
- Gerd W. Seidemann, journalist
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