Howard Hian is a credentialed journalist, affiliated with the North American Travel Journalists Association and the International Travel Writers Alliance. He is also a long-time member of the San Diego Hotel Motel Association and also serves as an allied representative on their Board of Directors.
Hian is a regular contributor to The Military Press, a California semi-monthly journal with a circulation of 100,000. It is distributed to active and retired military as well as defense contractors and Department of Defense personnel. Along with full-length travel features, he writes a monthly column, California Roundup, for the publication.
Hian's travel features can also be found online monthly at Travel Savvy News.
He has also written online for Real Travel Adventures, Just Say Go, So Go Now, OffBeat Travel, Chabad.org and Travelworld International.
The San Diego Jewish Journal featured his award winning The Sabra Who Cooks Cajun. His stories have appeared in the Columbia Daily Tribune (Missouri), Hanford Sentinel, Selma Enterprise and Kingsburg Recorder (all in California) as well as the Daily Chronicle (DeKalb, Illinois) and the Garden Island (Kauai, Hawaii).
Additionally, he is a guest commentator at On Tour with Dave and Carmel broadcasting from Sacramento, CA.
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In 2010, the Cancun CVB awarded Hian a second place prize in their international competition for his story Quintessential Quintana Roo.
In 2008, Hian's Gunkholing with Cruisewest was a Merit Award winner in the Cruise Category of the North American Journalists Association's annual writing contest.
In 2007, his story, The Sabra Who Cooks Cajun, was runner up in the North American Travel Journalists Associations Awards Competition in the Personality Profile category.
Hian received an Award of Excellence in the 2004 North American Travel Journalists Associations Awards Competition. His feature, A Cocoon of Comfort, was runner up in the Travel Tips & Advice category.
In 2002, Hian received a second place honor, in the international category, for his newspaper article featuring Lisbon, Portugal from the North American Travel Journalists Association.
Hian was in the top ten of the East West Travel Network's Writers and Photographers Awards in 2000. |
