Kate has been a journalist for more than 25 years working on a variety of national UK newspapers and business and consumer magazines. She was travel editor of the Independent on Sunday (2005-11), where she also wrote a weekly comment column, Travel View, which tackled the issues around global tourism. Since stepping down from the role she continues to write for national newspapers and magazines and has co-founded Traveltappers, a specialist travel PR agency. Through Traveltappers, Kate consults on media relations for Equality in Tourism.