Terms and Conditions:
1. The competition is open to travellers worldwide aged 18 and over, with the exception of employees of PureTravel and Geographical magazine, their immediate families, agents, or anyone else associated with administration of this competition.
2. Closing date for receipt of all entries is midnight GMT on 31st October 2014.
3. There is one prize consisting of a £1,000 cheque or US$1,500. The winning article will be published in "Geographical" magazine.
4. To enter, send your article of 350+ words, to competition@puretravel.com with your name, email address and telephone number. Please paste your text in to the email body. Do not send attachments. Entries are added at intervals. If you require a read receipt, please request this from your email provider.
5. The initial long list of 10 will be selected on merit by a panel of judges appointed by PureTravel and including editorial staff of Geographical. These 10 will be reduced to a shortlist of 3 by an online public vote. The winner will then be selected by one independent judge.
6. Online voting will start on the Friday 14th November 2014 and finish on Thursday 4th December 2014 at midnight GMT. To vote you must email competition@puretravel.com with the name of your chosen entry in the subject line. Only one vote per email (all duplicates will be disregarded).
7. The winner will be informed by Thursday 11th December 2014 and the result published on the PureTravel website.
8. PureTravel will have the right to publish all entries on its website. Geographical magazine will have the publishing rights on the winning article. Articles will be removed from the PureTravel website on request once the competition is over.
9. Entries limited to one per person.
10. E-mail addresses will be only be used by PureTravel for their own newsletter which can be opted out of. They will not be disclosed to any other parties.
11. There is no alternative to the prize offered and the prizes are non–transferable.
12. If for any reason a winner is unable to take the prize as offered, the Promoter reserves the right to award the prize to the next best entry.
13. The judge's decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
14. The winner agrees to participate in any reasonable publicity required by the Promoter.
Promoter:
PureTravel Ltd, Registered Address: Happisburgh, Norwich, Norfolk, NR12 0QQ