Elite Traveler Fall 2024

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Contributors

SOUTH OF FRANCE ELLA DANSON Creative director

Since joining the Elite Traveler teamin the spring of this year, Ella Danson has dived straight into the world of luxury travel and lifestyle, bringing with her a crop of tale-worthy experiences, from horseback riding in Patagonia to gorilla trekking in Rwanda. While she’s usually at our London o ffi ces, Danson has been spending her summer in the South of France, absorbing everything the chic French Riviera has to o ff er — from celeb spotting at the Cannes Film Festival to checking in at Hôtel Martinez, as well as jetting north to stop in at Haute Couture Week in Paris. On page 52, she heads to outer space with a roundup of the most dazzling celestial-inspired jewels. Pg52

TORONTO

staycations for stressed-out parents in need of respite. And, as you might imagine, she’s taken some pretty spectacular trips herself — and always does so in style: “I'm a very girly girl,” she says. “I’ve never camped a day in my life — I’m not a roughing-it kind of person at all.” On page 62, she talks travel with Elite Traveler ’sKim Ayling, and reveals the one place she can’t stop returning to — despite having already been upwards of 50 times. Pg62

MARY JEAN TULLY Tully Luxury Travel CEO

Mary Jean Tully — CEO and founder of Tully Luxury Travel, a bespoke travel agency based in Canada — has made it her life’s work to help her clients experience life-altering vacations and adventures, from epic world spanning cruise voyages for the time-rich to one-night

LONDON FIONASIMS Food, travel and wine writer

Travel writer Fiona Sims’ specialties span a broad range of topics, but it’s the culinary world where she really gets her teeth into a story. In this issue, Sims takes us to the Azores — a mountainous collection of islands some 870 miles o ff the coast of Portugal — for a deep dive into the archipelago’s rich culinary scene, and the chefs, producers and purveyors putting it on the world stage. As she writes on page 132, the Azores’ “nutrient-rich volcanic soil gives a distinct terroir to the food produced here, from the highly prized beef, to the dialed-up flavors of the fruit and vegetables.” ‘Home’ to Sims is between the Isle of Wight and London. When she’s not traveling the world in search of the next uncovered foodie hotspots, you’ll most likely find her by the sea; her ideal day would be a walk to The Needles, followed by a picnic lunch on the beach with local crab and a drink at The Terrace in Yarmouth. Pg132

Words Kim Ayling