Kate Simon has worked as a journalist in national newspapers and magazines for 40 years. She was the Travel Editor of the Independent on Sunday from 2005 to 2012 and has also written for The Guardian, The Telegraph and The i. She has spent more than a quarter of a century sampling hundreds of tourism experiences around the world, assessing them from a traveller's point of view, and has been a judge for both travel writing and tourism industry competitions. Kate is the co-author of two previous books, How To Pack For Any Trip (Lonely Planet, 2016) and Slow Travel Cheshire (Bradt, 2018). She is a co-founder of Equality in Tourism, a charity dedicated to ensuring women have an equal voice in global tourism.??

Phil Mellows is a freelance journalist who has written about beer and pubs for industry and consumer titles for more than 35 years. He has been a judge for The Publican Awards, and later the Great British Pub Awards, since 1998. As a journalist for the Brewery Manual he has closely followed the dramatic developments in the UK beer market during the past decade. His Politics of Drinking blog helps satisfy his obsession with alcohol policy and he has lately become a regular columnist for the hospitality industry newsletter Propel.

The below 12 locations have already been selected and the final 8 will be finalised as the authors progress with the book's research and writing and in order to ensure a wide geographical spread.

Introduction
1 Brighton
2 Hackney & East London
3 Chester
4 Leeds to Keighley
5 Kent Hop Fields & Thanet
6 Manchester
7 Peak District
8 Norwich & Norfolk
9 Bristol & Bath
10 Birmingham & the Black Country
11 Pembrokeshire and the Gower
12 Edinburgh

Introduction
This will set out the proposition of the book and the reasons for our pick of locations.

Each location chapter will include:
- An overview of the local beer and brewing scene
- An overview of the visitor scene
- Descriptions of breweries that welcome visitors
- Descriptions of the best places to drink beer: pubs, bars, tap rooms etc
- Descriptions of non-beer sights, attractions, and activities in the location
- Descriptions of recommended places to eat and stay, at different price levels
- Box-outs featuring interviews with personalities on the beer and travel scenes, potted histories, quirky stories about the destination and its beer, local pub/bar/tap trails and walks and other subjects arising from our research.