Queenie Shaikh
queenieshaikh.bsky.social
Queenie Shaikh
@queenieshaikh.bsky.social
🏆Multi-Award-Winning Travel Journalist.
Winner at 2024 Travel Media Awards and Travel Connection Group Awards/TravYule Baubles | Finalist at 2024 AITO and AWTE.
🖋 Words in The Independent, The NZ Herald, Adventure.com, & more.
👋 Instagram: @thepoorlondoner
- My 10th (!!!) award nomination/win in just 6 months — officially in double digits! 🥹 This one is Highly Commended for Mentee of the Year at the IWTTF Awards. Grateful for the journey, my mentors, and Intrepid Travel's game-changing press trip. Congrats to all the winners and finalists! 🏆
June 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM
- THRILLED to have won European Consumer Online Feature of the Year at the Inspire Global Media Awards! My Croatia–Pakistan story now has 6 nominations (awaiting a ceremony) + 3 wins! 🥹 Chuffed my Detroit pizza story was also nominated! Congrats to all the winners! #igmas #positiveimpactstorytelling
April 2, 2025 at 6:18 PM
- Fantastic press trip hosted by Intrepid Travel for a timely @hyphenonline.com story in today’s divisive world. Captured this fiery sunrise during a hike up Mount Batur. Thanks, @kateguest.bsky.social, for the commission! 🇮🇩

Full story: shorturl.at/DIrAS

#Bali #Indonesia @travmedia.bsky.social
March 11, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Om Swastiastu from beautiful Bali! 🇮🇩 Grateful to have written about Muslim-Hindu unity in the world’s largest Muslim-majority country, with Bali as Indonesia's only Hindu-majority province.

Big thanks to @kateguest.bsky.social for commissioning this and to @intrepidtravel for the best press trip!
February 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
- Thrilled to be published in The i Paper! ☺️ My story explores the history of the Anglo-Indian community, often mistaken for British Asians. But, their roots date back to 1608, linking Cheltenham to its nickname, the "Calcutta of the Cotswolds."

Read the full story here: shorturl.at/VR4Ka
December 20, 2024 at 7:22 PM
- Hello from beautiful Cheltenham! 🇬🇧 The little town recognised for many things, but did you know it was once infamously known as the "Calcutta of England"?

Here on a press trip for The i Paper to learn about pre-Partition South Asian history in a part of the UK where few would expect to find it!
December 9, 2024 at 5:43 PM