CONTRIBUTORS In The Know with Gostelow


Japanese cuisine is fast rivaling Italian as the world-food of luxury travelers. Miraflores Park Hotel, Lima, has brilliantly switched its former seafood restaurant to Mesa 18 by Toshiro. Consultant Toshiro Konishi, fourth son of a Saito City ryokan owner, first came to Peru to work for fellow Japanese, Nobu (Yuki Matsuhisa), who invented the distinctive Nobu ‘fusion food’ when he had to improvise in Lima in the 1970s.


Mary Gostelow is arguably the most-travelling luxury commentator - she is on the road at least 300 nights a year. She is best known for her daily blog and for her monthly market intelligence newsletter, Gostelow Report. She produces daily Gostelow Reports during each and every ILTM (www.iltm. net/gostelow), as well as this regular column for TheInsider.


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Aqua Expeditions’ Amazon ships are now offering Peruvian cooking classes, overseen by top Peruvian chef Pedro-Miguel Schiaffino. Cruise on the MV/Aqua or MV/Aria – maximum 32 passengers - and learn ceviche and pisco sours, plus palm heart mousse and shrimp escabeche (Aqua CEO Francesco Galli Zugaro also soon opens on the Mekong).


Silversea’s 296-passenger Silver Cloud extends its circumnavigate-Latin America itinerary. Start in Barbados November 26th, 2013 and, after three consecutive cruises, you disembark in Valparaiso January 5th, 2014. One highlight should be a day at Port Stanley, weather and Argentinian politics permitting. Silversea’s second exploration ship, by the way, is scheduled to start operations exclusively in The Galapagos from next year.


Mexican philanthropist Claudia Madrazo, an ILTM Americas keynote, is leading an MBA programme teaching hospitality on the continent. Everywhere, it seems, sustainability is a key to education (Ecuador’s Conscious Tourism includes forgoing about 846 million barrels of heavy crude reserves to protect diversity of the Yasuni National Park). Conservation and sustainability are key features of São Paulo-based Green Mobility, led by Lincoln Paiva. Spend hours cycling with him in the 454- acre Ibarapuera Park, opened for Brazil’s 400th birthday in 1954. It includes such stunning attractions as the red-beaked white Auditorium, by local architect Oscar Niemeyer, still working at nearly 105. The population of greater São Paulo is now 22 million and it can seem as if five per cent are happily enjoying the park at weekends. After such a fascinating workout, recover with the best coffee in Brazil, at Santo Grão on chic Oscar Freire street. Watch out Starbuck’s. The Santo Grão meeting places are fashionistas’ non-virtual communities, inspired by their owners, New Zealander Marco Kerkmeester, ex-IBM, and his Brazilian wife Renata.


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