Speakers confirmed for Advantage’s luxury conference
Hugo Jenkins of onefinestay and John Bevan of Spafinder Wellness 365 will speak at the Advantage Luxury Connoisseur Conference at the Montcalm Marble Arch next week.
The event, on November 7, is aimed at Advantage members who specialist in luxury travel.
Jenkins started at onefinestay in 2011, heading up the host sales and marketing team responsible for finding and curating London homes.
He now leads the global sales team with responsibility for growing the company’s trade presence and implementing strategic agent partnerships.
Jenkins will share insights into the luxury sector and will outline how agents can work with the company to maximise the potential of the market.
He will speak alongside managing director of Spafinder Wellness John Bevan, who joined the company last year.
Prior to this, Bevan was managing director of Voyage Priv-© UK, a French-owned, members-only luxury travel club, and also worked at Lastminute.com, ultimately being appointed managing director for the UK and Ireland.
Bevan will speak on wellness tourism, the size of the sector, its projected growth over the next few years, and why he thinks wellness holidays and breaks should form part of the travel industry’s offering.
Members who would like to attend the Advantage Luxury Connoisseur Conference should contact Jenny Bullock at Advantage Travel Partnership on [email protected] or 020 7324 3968.
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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