Shivya Nath is a travel blogger, writer, and social media consultant, best known for her travel blog ‘The Shooting Star’.
Wiki/Biography
Shivya Nath was born in 1988 (32 years old in 2020) in Dehradun, Uttarakhand. She attended St. Joseph’s Higher Secondary School, Dehradun. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Marketing (with distinction) from Singapore Management University.
appearance
Eye color: Black
Hair color: Black
Profession
After graduation, Shivya Nath started working as a social media strategist at the Singapore Tourism Board. There, she was introduced to social networks and began following travel bloggers around the world. She entered a Facebook competition held by AirAsia and won two round-trip tickets to Paris. She took a two-month leave, traveling in Europe for the first month and volunteering in the Spiti Desert, a cold mountainous region in the Himalayas in northern India, to develop responsible tourism alternatives.
Shivya Nath from Spiti
After her vacation ended, she decided to quit her job in 2011 because she felt that her life in the past two months was more fulfilling than ever before. After quitting her job, she reopened her blog “Meteor” and began to post her travel stories on it.
Shooting Star – Shivya Nath
After quitting her job, she spent her six months savings and then started freelancing. She has freelanced for BBC Travel, Lonely Planet India, National Geographic Traveller India, Condé Nast Traveller India, Huffington Post, Times of India, The Hindu, Hindustan Times and CNNGo. She is also a social media consultant. In 2012, she started her own travel and tour company, India Untravelled.
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In 2018, she published a book titled Shooting Stars, which chronicles her personal journey and travels around the world.
Shivya Nath and her book Meteor (2018)
In 2019, she launched her own travel clothing line, “The Shooting Star Collection”.
Awards and achievements
- Won the Gold Award for Best Communicator at the WTM India Responsible Tourism Awards 2020
- Won the Silver Award for Best Travel Blog Writing at the 2018 TBC Asia Awards
- Voted the best Indian travel blogger by Vogue India in 2015
- Best Young Social Media Professional in India at the CMO Asia Awards 2014
- Best India Travel Blogger at the India Blog Awards 2013
Facts/Trivia
- In 2013, she gave up her Delhi apartment, sold most of her belongings and began to live a nomadic life.
- In 2015, she went vegan and decided to eliminate all animal products from her diet and life.
- Her Instagram is filled with posts about vegetarian food, restaurants, and her travel journeys.
Shivya Nath’s Instagram posts about food
- She has been published in several publications including Condé Nast Traveler, The Washington Post, Vogue, The Times of India, The Huffington Post, WordPress Discover, and BBC Travel.
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