Sophie Griffiths joined Travel Trade Gazette in March 2010 as a news reporter, covering cruise, agents, interviews and industry analyses, before being appointed news editor in March 2013 and then working her way up to the position of editor in January 2017. She is the founder of TTG LGBT - a network for LGBT people and allies within the travel industry - which launched in March 2015 and champions diversity within the sector. Sophie was highly commended as 2018 PPA Editor of the Year (Business Media) and later awarded Editor of the Year at the 2018 Independent Publisher Awards.