Telegraph Travel wins best website award The comedian and broadcaster Michael Palin accepted an "outstanding contribution" award at the end of the ceremony, saying he was honoured to be recognised by travel industry experts. The event was staged in the grand Art Deco headquarters of the Royal British Institute of Architecture in central London, Praising travel as a way of gaining a deeper understanding of different cultures, Palin said his voyages in a world often portrayed as unsafe had paradoxically made him feel safer - but had also previously got in the way of a Monty Python reunion. Interview: Simon Reeve's Australia