Gerard Bellino and Vivienne Kouba of Direct Travel
Virtuoso Luxury Travel Network, of which Vision Travel are proud members, recently held their annual Travel Week in Las Vegas. This annual gathering is a highly anticipated event that brings together the top travel providers in the world with the top travel advisors. It is a fantastic week of networking and advisors shop for fabulous and unique experiences for their clients. Vision Travel and Direct Travel sent a team of 100 advisors to the event this year, our biggest team ever.
Two of the highlights of the conference are the Best of the Best Awards and 2018 Virtuoso Awards. This year Vision Travel and Direct Travel are pleased to announce we were the winners of the Top Growth Award in the network, which means in 2017 we crafted more unparalleled journeys for our clients than ever before.
Here are the Best of the Best Award Winners for 2018
Hotel of the Year Adare Manor, Ireland
Housed in a 200-year-old manor house in Limerick Ireland, Adare Manor has recently reopened after a two-year restoration project. The results are spectacular.
Best Bar The Donovan Bar, Brown’s Hotel, A Rocco Forte Hotel, London
Residing in one of London’s most iconic hotels, the Donovan Bar has long been known as one of the most intimate and sophisticated drinking dens in the city playing host to gatherings of the most glamorous faces of Mayfair’s elite fashion and art scene.
Best Wellness Program BodyHoliday St Lucia
Set on a secluded cove of white sand beach at the edge of the Caribbean Sea, surrounded by tropical gardens and rainforest, BodyHoliday Saint Lucia is the ultimate getaway for body and mind. Recognised as one of the finest destination resorts and centre of well-being, there couldn’t be a more idyllic corner of the world to escape to. But what makes this vacation truly idyllic is it’s designed by you.
Best Family Program The Ranch at Rock Creek, Montana
Surrounded by 6,600 acres of ranchland, The Ranch at Rock Creek offers an all-inclusive “true west” experience complete with breathtaking scenery and activities as limitless as the Montana sky. Take advantage of long summer days to fly-fish, ride horseback or hike. Winter activities include snowmobiling, cross-country skiing and horse-drawn sleigh rides.
Best Dining Experience Meadowood Napa Valley- The Restaurant
The Restaurant at Meadowood offers a casually elegant dining experience featuring a modern approach to Napa Valley cuisine by Chef Christopher Kostow. “Approachable, dynamic, evocative and playful.”
Best Escorted Tour Partner Tauck
The Tauck Mission is to “create authentic, enriching travel experiences that enhance people’s lives by broadening their knowledge and fulfilling their dreams.” Each vacation is a refined mix of culture and entertainment, sightseeing and leisure, camaraderie and privacy. Guests’ expectations are routinely exceeded, creating a remarkably loyal clientele who are enriched, indulged and inspired by their travels with Tauck. Each year, Tauck brings guests to some 70 countries and all seven continents.
Best River Cruise AmaWaterways
At AmaWaterways, they love what they do – providing their guests with the best travel experiences possible. In fact, “Ama” is derived from the Latin word for “love.” It is a concept that permeates every aspect of their river cruises, from the design of their ships to the development of their itineraries to the high levels of service they deliver to guests.
Most Luxurious Guest Experience – Cruise- Crystal Cruises
For the past 26 years, Crystal Cruises has redefined luxury ocean travel by providing the finest travel experience. Building upon its unrivalled reputation, The World’s Most Awarded Luxury Cruise Line™ has now embarked on the most significant brand expansion in the history of luxury travel and hospitality: over the next three years, Crystal will introduce three brand-new classes of cruising and even its own luxury aircraft.
Ask your Vision Travel advisor about how you can experience the Best of the Best in travel.