Celebrity Cruises and American Express Publishing’s Travel + Leisure, Departures and Food & Wine brands will be collaborating to provide destination information to travelers.
The collaboration includes the formation of “Celebrity’s Global Insiders, powered by Travel + Leisure,” a group of travel experts, style luminaries, epicureans, writers and editors. The collaboration will also produce a series of Destination Guides created by the editors of Travel + Leisure with insider tips on 150 of Celebrity’s destinations.
Celebrity’s Global Insiders, powered by Travel + Leisure, are:
- Kate Betts, a magazine editor and the author of Everyday Icon: Michelle Obama and the Power of Style. Betts is a contributing editor at Travel + Leisure and Time and was previously the editor-in-chief of Harper’s Bazaar, and the fashion news director of Vogue.
- Julia Dimon, a journalist, TV correspondent for Outside Today, and nationally syndicated columnist. Dimon has been featured as a travel expert on ABC, NBC, MSNBC and in The New York Times, among other publications.
- Jack Ezon, president of Ovation Vacations, a company specializing in luxury travel experiences. He appears on the Travel + Leisure A-List.
- Marc Murphy, executive chef and owner of Benchmarc Restaurants, Landmarc and Ditch Plains, as well as Benchmarc Events by Marc Murphy. Murphy also is a judge on FoodNetwork’s top-rated show, Chopped.
- Alisa Ng, founder and CEO of L-atitude.com, a curated online marketplace for travel and fashion enthusiasts. Ng launched the site in 2010, and it has since become an e-commerce partner for Travel + Leisure, and was included in “Best of the Web” features in InStyle, Departures and Town & Country.
- Adam Sachs, a travel, food and lifestyle writer. Sachs is a contributing editor for Travel + Leisure and Bon Appetit, and also writes for GQ, Details and T, among other publications.
The Destination Guides created by Travel + Leisure will be found on Celebrity's web site, www.celebrity.com, in brochures, and onboard.