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travelintelligence

Started by James Dunford Wood, one of the founders of World Reviewer, Travel Intelligence is a collection of travel writers and journalists who have made a unique selection of the best hotels worldwide.

Area of expertise: Best Hotels

i-escape

i-escape.com is the brainchild of Laila Ram and Nicky Tinto, passionate hotel-groupies who are dedicated to helping discerning independent travellers find and book exciting and unusual places to stay in some of the world's most beautiful and...

Area of expertise: Best Hotels

Definitive Caribbean

THE DEFINITIVE CARIBBEAN GUIDE aims to be exactly as the name suggests – the definitive guide to the Caribbean, quite simply the best web site in the world for anyone wishing to learn more about or planning to visit the Caribbean. The founders of...

Mike Lyvers

I have been fascinated by the wonders of the natural world all my life. Volcanoes in particular have been a special interest of mine ever since I saw eruptions in Japan as a child back in the 1960s. There is nothing more spectacular in nature than a...

Areas of expertise: Extreme Environments, Volcanoes, Waterfalls, Canyons, Hot Springs

The Hotel Guru

The Hotel Guru is Fiona Duncan of the Sunday Telegraph - a leading hotel journalist who, after several lifetimes of professional hotel reviewing and globe trotting for many of the major national newspapers and press in the UK, knows the best places...

Area of expertise: Best Hotels

Martin Gray

My career as a photographer of sacred architecture and pilgrimage sites began when I was a young boy. My father was in the US diplomatic service and because of this I was privileged to travel widely around the world. Archaeology and photography were...

Areas of expertise: Churches & Abbeys, Temples, Mosques, Sacred Spaces, Sacred Places

Julian Carter-Manning

Safari specialist from Tanzania Odyssey, Julian has travelled the world in search of authentic experiences.

Areas of expertise: Safari, Traditional Cultures

Mike Salter

Mike Salter is the author of the Folly Publications series of books about medieval castles, parish churches and long distance walking trails in the United Kingdom. In addition to writing, Mike specialises in making the measured plan drawings of...

Areas of expertise: History, Castles & Palaces

Film Fan

I am beyond a mere fan of cinema. I am more a fanatic. Films consume my every thought, word and action. Am I a parody or a homage? Or am I rosebud? (I wanted that to be my user name but I was afraid you would all laugh at me... and I'll write a...

Areas of expertise: Arts, Film Locations

Ian Wilson

Ian Wilson was born in Edinburgh and grew up in New Zealand with a yearning to travel. He's been globetrotting since he went round the world at the age of nine. After university in New Zealand and Oxford, where he gained a DPhil in political...

Areas of expertise: Surfing, Coastlines, Islands

Nick Shaw

Areas of expertise: Watersports, Diving

David Holyoak

Founder of Ultimate Sports Media Ltd and Ultimate-Ski.com, David has a passion for all things skiing, especially St Anton am Arlberg which he has visited more often than we care to remember, always taking regular tea breaks between turns - as the...

Areas of expertise: Wintersports, Skiing

James Henderson

James Henderson is one of Britain’s most respected travel writers and the author of The Cadogan Guide to the Caribbean and the Bahamas. Known to most of its users and readers as 'the Caribbean Bible', the Cadogan Guide (published by Globe Pequot in...

Areas of expertise: Diving, Seas and Lakes, Beaches

Donna Dawson

As the owner/publisher of the Internet Web site, www.ICanGarden.com, Donna Dawson has received many awards and has been recognized in numerous publications. During its twelve year history, ICanGarden.com has grown to become Canada’s largest Internet...

Areas of expertise: Parks & Gardens, Gardens

alexis_b

Alexis has been skiing, snowboarding and generally bumming around the resorts of the world since she was in nappies. She also enjoys nothing better than exploring the hidden wonders of the world.

Areas of expertise: Skiing, Snowboarding

Anna Dejardin

Anna Dejardin is an astronomer and passionate star-gazer. Her travels have taken her all over the world in search of the darkest parts of the sky.

Areas of expertise: Wildlife, Astronomy

Ryan Hutchings

Executive Director for Rafting America Rafting America is the largest marketing organization of rafting outfitters in the world today. Together, rafting outfitters join in a united effort to increase awareness and reach out to a larger audience,...

Areas of expertise: Rafting, Paddling

Kynan Wieltz

Kynan Wieltz initially trained as an architect where he developed a great appreciation for buildings constructed for prayer and for spiritual ends. He has been involved in the construction of several regional churches as well as civic buildings and...

Areas of expertise: Castles & Palaces, Churches & Abbeys, Sacred Places

Merrick Davis

Merrick Davis is a two times Australian and World Pro Am Surfing Champion, who was competing on the World Professional Circuit until 1995. Since leaving the surfing circuit, Merrick has been passing his expansive knowledge and love of surfing on to...

Areas of expertise: Watersports, Surfing

Barbara

My company, gloCaltravel, offers alternatives to mass tourism holidays, co-operating with local guides and communities in Mexico & Central America ...