Mary Chong is an award-winning travel writer, professional graphic designer and founder of Calculated Traveller Magazine based in Toronto, Canada. CalculatedTraveller.com launched in February 2013 as an online magazine with informative travel advice, helpful tips, honest reviews, and travel inspiration for destinations throughout the world. As we share photos and stories of our adventures both near and far, we strive to deliver budget planning, preparation tips, reviews, and honest advice in each article. No matter your budget or destination, we are here to be a trusted source for all types of travellers. Calculated Traveller publishes in English and Chinese.
Vitali Vitaliev is a UK-based multi-award-winning and fully bilingual (English-Russian) author, columnist, editor and broadcaster. Starting his career in the former USSR, where he became known as the country’s first investigative journalist, he was forced to defect in January 1990.
Having worked and lived in Australia, England, Scotland and Ireland, Vitali is the author of 14 books ( Hutchinson, Hodder & Stoughton, Random House, Simon & Schuster etc.), translated into German, Japanese, Italian, Russian and Finnish.
He also worked as a columnist, editor and features writer for the Guardian, the European, the Daily Telegraph, the Herald (in the UK), the Age (in Australia), the Village (in Ireland) and many more, and was shortlisted (eight times) for the UK Columnist of Year Award. He has won three Gold TABPI Awards for the best regular column.
A Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
Jeremiah Gilbert is an award-winning photographer and travel writer based out of Southern California. His travels have taken him to over a hundred countries and territories spread across six continents. His photography has been published internationally, in both digital and print publications, and has been exhibited worldwide, including in Leica’s LFI Gallery. His hope is to inspire those who see his work to look more carefully at the world around them in order to discover beauty in unusual and unexpected places. He is the author of the collections Can’t Get Here from There: Fifty Tales of Travel and From Tibet to Egypt: Early Travels After a Late Start. He can be found on Instagram @jg_travels
Having worked as a publisher for Financial Times Healthcare, Tracey took the decision 20 years ago to become a freelance writer. Healthcare commissions led to technology commissions, and an opportunity to visit a brand new innovative cruise ship ... and from that moment her love for cruises and travel took over. Until recently she was the content editor for the online blogging community, Trips100, and she's written for her own family travel blog, PackThePJs, for the last 6 years. As a travel writer, Tracey focuses on family travel with teenagers, and travel within the UK with the children, and their pet dogs.
Based in Bangkok, Thailand, Dave Stamboulis has been an intrepid photographer, adventure traveller, and travel writer for the past 30 years. Born in Athens, Greece, raised in Berkeley, California, and having since called Japan, Nepal, and Thailand home, Stamboulis is the author of the award-winning Odysseus' Last Stand, voted by the Society of North American Travel Writers as Silver Medal Travel Book of the Year. Stamboulis is also the author of 500 Hidden Secrets Bangkok, the updating writer for Fodor's Thailand, and has been the "Bangkok Expert" for USA Today's 10Best website for the past decade. Dave's photography and articles have been featured regularly in publications such as the BBC, Travel & Leisure, Sawasdee, Morning Calm, South China Morning Post, Gel Lost, USA Today, Lifestyle and Travel, The Culture Trip, and World Nomads among others.
