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International Excellence interviewes Scott Morrow, CEO of Luxury Link, the luxury travel site. Where did you grow up? I grew up in Clinton, Tennessee, a small town of 3,000 residents at the foothills of the Smokey Mountains. How did you start in the industry? I have always been an avid traveller and followed the industry ...
Whilst much has changed in this corner of Morocco, one thing remain the same- the perennial feeling of escapism, the air of relaxation, and the pervading sense that you’re switching off from normal life completely. For some time Essaouira, a small fishing village on the country’s Atlantic coast, not too far from the tourist hotspot ...
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Valletta, Malta’s capital and arguably the city with the world’s most iconic harbour, is being born again. New bars and restaurants have revitalised the eternally pretty but once staid streets, and major civil projects are transforming the town’s overall aesthetic whilst cleaning up facades in preparation for the impending honour of European Capital of Culture ...
Resort: Lech (Austria) is very much its own character; the word ‘genteel’ fits well. This small village provides a great diversity of slopes for all grades of skier and boarder, but with more focus to the beginner and intermediate skier. Lech makes up a part of one of the world’s best ski domains, providing good ...
The Ceredigion coastline of mid-Wales might be a magnet for birders and lovers of saltings as well as fans of UNESCO Biosphere Areas. But it’s not where you should go if you suffer from Ovinaphobia. Or, a fear of sheep. There is one, if not a herd, in virtually every room at Ynyshir Hall. Everywhere ...
The magnet of the prospect of exciting food in a delightful hotel will draw us out of our crowded corner of the South East; a 200 miles’ round trip was well worth the agonies of the Dartford Crossing and the M25. The film set of the square in Suffolk’s Lavenham is dominated by ...
If Tonka Toys made cars, this is what it would like look like. Rugged and tough, with bright vivid colours and clearly great fun to play with! Something of a travel car for the adventurous. It’s only natural that if your work confines you to the city, you feel an urge to get away ...
It was a bitterly cold morning in the southern Bulgarian ski town of Bansko and the instant coffee on the balcony had chilled at an alarming pace. In the distance the vague plumes of steam could be seen coming from the figure of a muscular brown horse pulling a cart. On top of the cart ...
Flaine is the Vivian Westwood of ski resorts; so it was away with the expected Alpine style which has become so hackneyed across the Alps that it can be suffocating. Flaine’s style is certainly challenging; conceived in the 1960s, in the era of ‘Brutalist’ architecture which has been so derided by the general public, but ...
Sitting on a small but perfectly positioned balcony at the Regina Palace Hotel, one of the best appointed residences in the small but not insignificant Italian town of Stresa, and you could be forgiven for thinking you’d stepped back in time a good half century or so. Which is by no means a criticism. The ...
The Ski amadé pass covers a vast area with some 25 ski resorts south of Salzburg where there are some relatively famous resorts including Schladming and Gastein resorts. When I heard the name Hochkönig; I thought it was a great name for a beer but it was equally satisfying as a ski area to keep ...