CONTRIBUTORS In The Know with Gostelow
Mary Gostelow is owner- editor of the unique and influential monthly Gostelow Report and is also the Editor- at-Large of
www.WOW.travel, the online magazine of Kiwi Collection INC.
Mary also shares her unique insights via ‘Gostelow LIVE’ distributed daily from all ILTM events – including all the latest news and views from the show floor.
The Bush Camp Company, co-founded in 1999 by its current CEO Andy Hogg, has one of the most enticing online brochures around - see
www.africageographic.com. Particularly appealing is Tim Jackson’s story of an eco-tourism project in Odzala National Park in the Cuvette-Ouest Region of Republic of the Congo. This is where to travel for forest elephants and gorillas galore. Hogg and colleagues are immensely aware of the opportunities for luxury travellers to become more involved with conservation (at one time he was working with Save the Rhino Trust’s Chinzombo Lodge project in Luangwa, Zambia).
Worthwhile experiences sum up what today’s highest spenders seek, says Lisa Lindblad (yes, it is an overused word, but ‘experience’ does sum it all up). The followers of New York-based Lisa Lindblad Travel Design want depth, and such destinations as Burma/Myanmar and Cuba, and following her first-ever visit to Japan last month she knows that Kyoto, ‘so close to heaven’, will join that list. Lindblad has brilliantly launched two new offerings, a modular www.
willingfoot.com and, to entice Americans and visitors alike to discover the history of the USA, American Stories, offering weekend trips on Gettysburg, Harlem, the Mid West and New Orleans,
www.lisalindblad.com
Adventure and wellness go hand in hand. Get fit for the trip with a visit to Shanti Maurice, on the south-west coast of Mauritius. The 36-acre estate, with gardens by Bill Bensley, has an indoor-outdoor spa with two Ayurvedic doctors, and a watsu pool – it also offers memorable horseback riding on miles of deserted beach. Even city-travellers can keep fit. The stunning Oberoi Gurgaon, one year old this month, is memorable for so many reasons (such as the living wall, the world’s largest, that is set one side of the football field-sized reflecting pool in the 187-room hotel’s front forecourt). The hotel’s gym and spa are both 24-hours, and interestingly at least a third of all spa treatments are during the night. There is a 160-foot outdoor pool but for the best experience reserve 6120, the hotel’s Presidential Suite. This gives you your own 60-foot, two-lane pool, cantilevered six floors above the ground.
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