Grant Jones Editor, Travel Weekly.

Q. Where are you based? Surry Hills, Sydney

Q. What outlet do you write for? Who is your audience? What are your travel specialties? Travelweekly.com.au. Travel agents, tourism industry gurus, informed travellers and our very supportive advertisers. I've just renewed my passport after a couple of quiet years. But I'm looking forward to talking tech, new destinations, F&B, accommodation, sustainability and supporting First Nations tourism. 

Q. What are your professional pet peeves? Receiving emails that have nothing whatsoever to do with travel. Don't rely on a scattergun approach or outdated mailing list. My tip? Audit and update regularly. 

Q. In your past professional life, you were … Food Editor, The Daily Telegraph, Sydney.

Q. Where would you like to return to? Galapagos, I was last there in 1986 - yep, I'm almost as old as their tartugas.

Q. What's on your bucket list? India, drip, Antarctica, drip, Mustang, drip - is the bucket full yet?

Q. Where do you travel for fun? With my family, towing my tinny to any spot on the NSW coast a minimum 90 minutes from Sydney.

Q. Your funniest (or most harrowing) travel story is … Convincing Customs officials in Bogota that I was down to my last US$20 cash so I couldn't afford to hand over a "fee" to leave the airport after arriving on the last flight that night. Thankfully a five-foot high, angry ball of energy in the form of an Aerolineas Argentinas flight attendant stepped in and tore strips off the gun-toting officials. I got my money back.

Q. What advice would you give your younger professional self? Listen more, talk less. 

Q. What nugget would you like to add that we haven't touched on? Let me ask AI.

Q. How best should people contact you? TravMedia founder Nick Wayland knows where to find me. He's been finding me for more than 20 years. Otherwise https://travmedia.com/grantjones