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Broadcaster and author Clare Balding CBE was the guest of honour at the second Travel Weekly Inspiring Women Rising Stars Lunch last month. The event saw 30 senior executives each bring a rising star from within their businesses for a morning masterclass featuring panels and presentations, before a lunch at which Balding spoke about her life and career. The lunch was hosted by the Hyatt Regency The Churchill hotel in London and


was supported by headline sponsor Intrepid Travel, speaker sponsor Avis, consumer media partner News UK and partners Celebrity Cruises, Delta Air Lines, Virgin Atlantic and Jovolution.


1Clare Balding CBE 2Ann Anglesea and Sally Cunningham-Anglesea, Delmar World 3Michelle DaCosta, Delta Air Lines 4Nicki Goldsmith and Georgia Mobsby, from sponsor Virgin Atlantic 5Louise Craddock, Oceania Cruises, and Edwina Lonsdale, Mundy Cruising 6Zina Bencheikh, from headline sponsor Intrepid Travel, and Rebecca Godwin,


Avis Budget Group 7Kate Devereux, from sponsor Delta Air Lines 8Kirsty Jacklin and Sarah Weetman, Kuoni 9The Rising Stars 10Camarla Dennis and Julia Lo Bue-Said, Advantage Travel Partnership 11Lucy Huxley, T


during the morning masterclass 12Jo Rzymowska, from partner


Jovolution 13Hannah Blackmore, Cruise 365, and Claire Brighton, Atas, with Julie Pinkney and Joanna Grafton, The Travel Network Group 14Jess Chatfield and Claire Stirrup, from sponsor Celebrity Cruises 15Zina Bencheikh and Joanna Reeve (second right), Intrepid


Travel, with rising stars Emme McKay (second left) and Molly Gardner 16Clare Balding with Jeanette Harper from host sponsor Avis Budget Group and Jo Rzymowska 17Victoria Sanders from consumer media partner News UK 18Karen Sequeira and Kirsty Webb, Norwegian Cruise Line, with Louise Craddock and Annabelle Brown, Oceania Cruises 19Giuseppina Bavasso from event host Hyatt Hotels Corporation 20 Claire Benktander, Mundy Cruising


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