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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
Sponsorship director Jamison Nesbitt
020 7921 8457, jnesbitt@ttglive.com Luxury liveS on
Advertising manager Sheryl Makin
020 7921 8023, smakin@ttglive.com We have been seeing some high-profile jitters and casualties on the high street in
recent weeks, but from speaking to some of you for our piece on “retail therapy”
Senior Account manager Eric Findlay
020 7921 8022, efindlay@ttglive.com
(see p44), it seems that offering a genuine service in a conducive environment
is still successfully generating interest and, more importantly, bookings.
Account manager Ricky Wilkes
020 7921 8195, rwilkes@ttglive.com
And judging by some of the resorts I have visited in the past few months, the
luxury market is alive and kicking. One&Only Royal Mirage and Atlantis The Palm
New media sales manager Jane Carnall
in Dubai were both full when I visited (p17), The Savoy in Florence had only two
020 7921 8044, jcarnall@ttglive.com
rooms available (p16) and Crystal Serenity in the Med was only a few staterooms
Sales executive Simon Pilkington short of a full ship. Even the Banyan Tree in Phuket – after all the trouble in Bangkok
020 7921 8019, spilkington@ttglive.com
– was brimming over with international travellers (p26).
Publishing
I have taken heart from these travels: I’ve seen that people are not going to deny
Publisher Paula Martin April Hutchinson
themselves what they have come to love so much – at the top end of travel anyway
020 7921 8026, pmartin@ttgluxury.com
Editor
(and judging by the hordes I regularly see at airports, it’s not just Mr and Mrs
Group director David Goulthorpe Moneybags either). Meeting with Simon Cooper, the president of Ritz-Carlton,
on his recent fleeting visit to the UK, I asked him how his customers were feeling
Executive consultant, ttgluxury
Nick Perry, Chairman, Ultratravel Ltd
– surely one of the biggest barometers you can get of luxury travellers. He quoted
Nick@ultra.travel
the company’s recent research, which saw 58% of Ritz-Carlton travellers saying
their number-one “big-ticket” expenditure this year would be a holiday (p20).
Editorial Advisory Panel
Jennifer Atkinson, Tom Barber, Lucy Clark, Adrian Croft,
One area he did say was feeling the pinch was the Caribbean, with the high-
Gillian Davis, Samantha Day, Rosie Doran, Graeme George,
profile closure of a Four Seasons in the Bahamas. Its website says “Thank you for
Denise Hodgson, Barbara Howarth, Jane Hoyes, Kristina
Hulme, Eliot Keynes, Lee Marshall, Ian Neale, Nicola Price,
your interest in Four Seasons Resort Great Exuma. We regret to inform you that
Trudy Redfern, Ian Scott, Dom Speakman, Kathryn Thomas the resort is now closed.” The owner simply ran out of cash and the management
could no longer continue.
ttgluxury
Ludgate House,
But there are still plenty of good things to look
245 Blackfriars Road,
forward to in the Caribbean, including the reopening
London, SE1 9UY
ttgluxury.com
of Rosewood Hotels & Resorts’ Jumby Bay in Antigua
(pictured above). This $26m renovation project will
Editor’s Choice
include the redesign of rooms and the addition of a new
Six Senses Destination
resort spa and oceanfront infinity pool. Jumby Bay has
Spa in Phuket is an
long been lauded for its attention to detail, and the
escapist Thai lifeline
redevelopment will be a reflection of this quest for
for anyone feeling the
perfection and sophisticated luxury. The 12-month
pressures of modern
project is scheduled to complete in November 2009. As
life. See p26
ever, please tell me about the view from your perspective:
drop me a line at alhutchinson@ttgluxury.com
contributors
Charlotte Walsh Annabelle Hood Paul Revel Sara Macefield
Charlotte is web editor on Annabelle, former editor of When Paul is sub-editing Sara is a freelance writer
TTG but for this issue she travel & events magazine our writers’ copy he is who specialises in cruising.
packed away her laptop to Dial, went to see how ruthless – but when he Most recently she has
check out Paris at the Park Shanghai is shaping up to escapes to wonderful sampled the delights of
Hyatt Paris-Vendome. host next year’s World Expo destinations such as Yachts of Seabourn and
Having a penchant for 2010. From its Malev bullet Thailand, he sympathises Celebrity Cruises. In this
cocktails and desserts, she train to fast-developing sky- with our luxury scribes issue, she looks at how
was particularly impressed line of swanky new hotels because there’s so much cruise lines are steering a
by the hotel’s Michelin star with views to match, this to say and never enough path through the troubled
restaurant Pur, p55 will be one to watch, p31 space… p22 waters of recession, p38
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