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Editorial
Editor April Hutchinson
020 7921 8541, alhutchinson@ttgluxury.com
Art Director Nick Bartolucci
Designer Jasveer Mehay
Chief sub-editor Paul Revel
Design Consultant Tanja Rusi
Sales
Sales Director Deborah Dewe
020 7921 8025, ddewe@ttglive.com
Business Development Manager Emma Barnes
020 7921 8508, ebarnes@ttglive.com
Sponsorship Director Jamison Nesbitt
020 7921 8457, jnesbitt@ttglive.com
remember luxury?
Advertising Manager Sheryl Makin
020 7921 8023, smakin@ttglive.com
Correct me if I am wrong, but the last time I looked out of the window, the world
was still there and it still seemed to be spinning.
Senior Account Manager Eric Findlay
Have you seen the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind? It’s a Kate Winslet
020 7921 8022, efindlay@ttglive.com
classic (before she went all prima donna-like). The concept is pretty far-fetched
Account Manager Lisa Merrigan
– that you can erase a part of your memory which hurts you too much to think of,
020 7921 8709, lmerrigan@ttglive.com
but during the process you also come across amazing memories buried deep away.
Account Manager Ricky Wilkes If I could give you a machine like this, that would allow your clients to erase
020 7921 8195, rwilkes@ttglive.com
the current gloom and take them back to the amazing feeling of the first rays of
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sun as they stepped off the plane, or the time they laughed so hard with friends
Publisher Paula Martin after a few rosy-cheeked glasses of apres ski red around the fire – wouldn’t they
020 7921 8026, pmartin@ttgluxury.com
just say “sod it”, and book? It is so hard to keep ourselves motivated and smiling
Group Director David Goulthorpe
April Hutchinson
– let alone colleagues and staff – but that’s what we have to do and keep on
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inspiring the customer.
Executive Consultant, ttgluxury
Nick Perry, Chairman, Ultratravel Ltd
Contact with clients is of course key to success. For example, there’s a Six Senses
Nick@ultra.travel Spa in London now – it opens this month at the Pan Peninsula residences in Canary
Wharf. It might be an idea to woo your clients by taking them there for some
Editorial Advisory Panel
Jennifer Atkinson, Tom Barber, Lucy Clark, Adrian Croft,
treatments and once they’re hooked on Six Senses, suggest one of the amazing
Gillian Davis, Samantha Day, Rosie Doran, Graeme George,
destinations further afield. They don’t have to go too far either, as a second Middle
Denise Hodgson, Barbara Howarth, Jane Hoyes, Kristina
East property is now open – the Evason Ma’In Hot Springs & Six Senses Spa
Hulme, Eliot Keynes, Lee Marshall, Ian Neale, Nicola Price,
Trudy Redfern, Ian Scott, Dom Speakman, Kathryn Thomas
(pictured above) in Jordan, with natural thermal spa, desert safaris, and within
reach of the ancient wonders of Petra. The best bit – the hotel is offering amazing
ttgluxury, First Floor,
Ludgate House, 245 Blackfriars Road,
industry rates, giving you the chance to try the resort and report back to clients on
London, SE1 9UY all its soothing properties, exactly the tonic they must be needing right now.
ttgluxury.com
And we have another tonic for you – how does a trip to the sun-drenched island
of Anguilla sound? We have teamed up with Anguilla
Tourist Board to kick off an amazing year of agent trips
– we’re calling them the ttgluxury Experience, as we
think they will be beyond the usual ‘fam’, indulging all
Editor’s Choice
our lovely agents in oodles of luxury. To find out more,
The new Shangri-La
check out page 10, or visit ttgluxury.com/anguilla
in Vancouver (p29) has
The new-look ttgluxury.com has exclusive
literally just opened its
competitions, hotel reviews, selling ideas, news and
doors and we were the
features, as well as all our previous issues in digital
first to have a look.
format if you missed anything. Until the next issue, I
The hotel is a brilliant
wish you well and hope business is brisk. Maybe see
addition to a great city.
you in Anguilla? alhutchinson@ttgluxury.com
contributors
Roz Webster Martin Ferguson Philippa Jacks Michael Lane
Roz is co-owner of Martin is usually found Philippa is deputy features Michael joined TTG ’s news
Cream Travel, which she writing for ttgbusiness.com editor on TTG and has a desk in January, so we
set up nearly five years ago but for this issue he’s penchant for writing about wasted no time in jetting
after running corporate swapped the corporate wildlife wherever possible, him off for his first
marketing at Abercrombie sector for the soft sands of so diving the Great Barrier assignment to explore the
& Kent. She shares her Les Pavillons, on Le Morne Reef and exploring the ultra-chic new Address
advice on the importance peninsula in Mauritius Daintree rainforest was a hotel in Dubai – he
of gaining first-hand – where he discovered the dream come true, as was particularly liked the view
experience to pitch Nymphea spa among other discovering laidback luxury from the hotel’s stylish
with passion, see p10 things, see p32 in Queensland, see p22 63rd-floor sky bar, see p60
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