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Editorial
Editor April Hutchinson
020 7921 8440,
alhutchinson@ttgluxury.com
Group head of design Nick Bartolucci
Art editor Jasveer Mehay
Group production editor Michael Walsh
Chief sub-editor Paul Revel
Deputy chief sub-editor Matthew Parsons
Sales
Sales director Deborah Dewe
020 7921 8025,
ddewe@ttglive.com
ttgluxury sales manager
Emma Barnes
020 7921 8508,
ebarnes@ttgluxury.com
Advertising manager Sheryl Makin
020 7921 8023,
smakin@ttglive.com
Senior Account manager Eric Findlay hats the way to do it
020 7921 8022,
efindlay@ttglive.com
Account manager Ricky Wilkes
So how was your summer? I wish I’d had more time to spend it locked away at
020 7921 8195,
rwilkes@ttglive.com
somewhere like The Scarlet (pictured above), set on the Cornish coast and a
New media sales manager Jane Carnall
shining example of how hotels are continuing to innovate in spite of the recession.
020 7921 8044,
jcarnall@ttglive.com
The Scarlet opened in September and is among the first luxury eco-hotels in the
Sales executive Simon Pilkington
UK, built with the finest of green credentials from the ground up. I have recently
020 7921 8019,
spilkington@ttglive.com
been to see another green hotel in the UK, Coworth Park, which is still a work in
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progress so I had to don what seems to be my newest travel accessory, a hard hat.
Publisher Paula Martin
020 7921 8026,
pmartin@ttgluxury.com
I also recently donned hard hats in New York to look around The Chatwal (an art
deco hotel set to open next summer) and in Anguilla to look around the Viceroy.
Executive consultant, ttgluxury
Nick Perry, chairman, Ultratravel Ltd
Joining me in embarrassed wearing of hard hats on that Anguilla trip were five
Nick@ultra.travel
travel agents, with me for the very first of our ttgluxury Experiences. At the risk of
April Hutchinson
sounding like an M&S advert – these are not just fam trips, these are ttgluxury fam
Editorial Advisory Panel
Editor
Jennifer Atkinson, Tom Barber, Lucy Clark, Adrian Croft,
trips: time off, minimal site inspections, gourmet food – a trip your clients would
Gillian Davis, Samantha Day, Rosie Doran, Graeme
take. It’s difficult to get trips these days, and to justify the time away, but knowledge
George, Denise Hodgson, Barbara Howarth,
Jane Hoyes, Kristina Hulme, Lee Marshall, Ian Neale,
is the key to sales and to giving you the edge over your competition, so keep an eye
Nicola Price, Trudy Redfern, Ian Scott, Dominic out for details of our coming ttgluxury Experiences over the next 12 months. Next
Speakman, Kathryn Thomas
up, Jordan – so go online to
ttgluxury.com/jordan to find out more.
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between 1954 and 1965, currently a crucial segment for
I first went to New York
travel and consumer trends.
in 2001 and despite
The importance of research in our fast-moving world
visiting several times
cannot be overstated, so I urge you to find out more about
since, still get the same
the seminar at
ttgluxuryseminar.com. TTG is also about
buzz from a visit. For
to produce a unique piece of research, the TTG Travel
my tips on some of the
Intelligence Report, which will also help you make sense of
best hotels, see p56
the past year’s turmoil and plot where we go next.
contributors
Charlotte Walsh Paul Revel Philippa Jacks Rupert Murray
Charlotte, web editor for Paul took a break from TTG’s Caribbean specialist Rupert joined the TTG
ttglive.com, discovered sub-editing ttgluxury to Philippa Jacks followed in newsdesk in 2007 after
what it’s like to work for Sir take pot luck with the South the footsteps of Marilyn beginning his career on
Richard Branson when she African winter – needless Monroe, Winston Churchill local newspapers. In his
spoke to Virgin Limited to say it turned out to be and Kate Moss by visiting remit as hotels specialist
Edition boss Jon Brown better than UK summer. Jamaica Inn, one of the he has visited Dubai several
about his Life in Luxury, Among the many highlights Caribbean’s oldest and times and has kept a close
p62. She also visited of Cape Town was seeing best-loved properties. eye on the fastest-growing
Barcelona ahead of Abta’s killer whales breaching Find out what makes tourism destination of
Travel Convention, p20 just off Cape Point, p39 it special on p59 the 21st century, p43
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