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MEET THE BOARD
The Forbes Traveler 400 board of experts consists of several dozen respected business leaders, experienced travel professionals and elite travel agents. They were asked to rate five-star hotels in which they recently stayed. No hotel executives participated, and the writers who reviewed the hotels did not accept a complimentary stay.
PROMINENT TRAVELERS
TOUR OPERATORS
EDITORS & WRITERS
TRAVEL INDUSTRY EXECUTIVES
CEOs
TRAVEL AGENTS
PROMINENT TRAVELERS
 Chef/Author |
 Chef/Restaurateur Todd English Enterprises |
 Travel Editor The Today Show |
 Co-founder & Editor-in-Chief The Huffington Post |
 Designer Karim Rashid Inc. |
 Principal and CEO Tihany Design |
TOUR OPERATORS
 Director Austin-Lehman Adventures |
 President Explore Africa |
 President Wildland Adventures |
 Managing Director Austin-Lehman Adventures |
 CMO & Group Managing Director Abercrombie & Kent |
 CEO Geographic Expeditions |
 President & CEO Swain Tours |
 Founder & Managing Director The Wayfarers |
 CEO Aqua Expeditions |
TRAVEL INDUSTRY EXECUTIVES
 Chief Executive Officer TerraPass, Inc. |
 Founder International Luxury Travel Market |
 Marketing Directo Conservation Corporation Africa |
 President & CEO Academic Arrangements Abroad |
 Founder & Editor HotelDesigns.net |
 Vice President, Hotels & Resorts Virtuoso, Ltd. |
 President Small Planet Consulting |
 Founder & CEO DestinationBride.com |
 Columnist & Partner Mankarios Partnership |
 Chairman Best Trip Choice, Inc. |
 Group CEO Quintessentially |
 Senior Vice President Crystal Cruises |
 CEO Virtuoso |
 President & CEO LasVegas ConventionTravel.com |
 CEO Strategic Travel Consulting |
 Co-founder Lonely Planet Publications |
EDITORS & WRITERS
 Travel Contributor NY1 News |
 Editor in Chief CNN Traveller Magazine |
 Owner and Publisher Nota Bene |
 Food & Travel Columnist Esquire |
 Host & Executive Producer Rudy Maxa's World on PBT-TV |
 Editor at Large Diversion Magazine/ Aspen Magazine |
 Editor & Columnist Ski Magazine/ USA Today |
 Co-author 100 Best Spas of the World |
 Editor in Chief Travel Weekly |
CEOs
 CEO Bradach Enterprises |
 President and CEO Bebaa, Inc. |
 CEO/Chairman Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams |
 Founder & CEO Hilliard & Olander LTD. |
 Private Equity Investor |
 President Sunshine Media |
 Chairman & CEO Lele Consulting Group LLC |
 Founding CEO The Methodist Hospital System, Houston |
 Principal Essential Ideas |
 President and CEO Passkey International Inc. |
 CFO Zillow.com |
 CEO Valnest Hospitality |
 Group CEO ASA Group Limited |
 Managing Director TouchDown |
TRAVEL AGENTS
 President JB's World |
 President Rudi Steele Travel |
 President Butterfield & Robinson |
 President Strong Travel Services |
 Owner Global International Travel Services PL |
 President Linden Travel |
 Vice President, Leisure Travel Sterling Brownell |
 President Gayle Gillies Travel |
 Certified Travel Counsellor Diners Fugazy Travel |
 Co-President Great Getaways |
 President & Senior Travel Consultant Covington Travel |
 President Lindenmeyr Travel |
 Chairman & CEO Corniche Travel |
 Executive Vice President Signature Travel Network |
 National Leisure Director ALTOUR |
 Vice President Plaza Travel |
 President Betty Maclean Travel |
 Vice President & Secretary Boulevards of Travel |
 Senior Vice President of Leisure ALTOUR |
 Executive Director Viajes Excelsior |
 President & CEO Our Personal Guest, Inc. |
Kathy Burns Lamphier President Posh Travel LTD |
Corinne Cricks Director of Hotel Programs Tzell Travel Group |
Robert E. Watson Managing Director Protravel International |
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Miriam Rand President Protravel Int'l, Rand-Fields |
