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Our travel consultants
REBECCA MARTIN
Head of Travel Team
Languages spoken English; basic French
Favourite destinations Seychelles; Kenya
Favourite hotel Amandari, Ubud, Bali
Areas of expertise Africa; Indian Ocean
Putting her psychology degree to good use every day, Rebecca uses the skills she learnt to enrich and motivate the travel team. Before joining Mr & Mrs Smith, Rebecca spent eight years at Kuoni, road-testing luxury holidays from Mauritian beach breaks to action-packed African safaris – all in the name of research, of course. After this, she worked as head of account management for Small Luxury Hotels of the World.
DOMINIC ATTERTON
GoldSmith Travel Consultant
Languages spoken English
Favourite destination Mexico
Favourite hotel Kasbah Tamadot, Atlas Mountains
Areas of expertise Mexico; Morocco; Europe
After completing his A-Levels, Dominic went travelling to Central and South America to decide what to study, but found that he loved travel so much that he went straight into the industry. He began his career working with Original Travel, where he spent two years working as an account manager and organising luxury trips around the world. He was also able to build up a strong knowledge of restaurants, clubs and things to do throughout Europe. A Londoner all his life, Dominic knows everything there is to know about the capital, and spends most of his free time indulging his interest in live music or his beloved Chelsea football club.
NICOLE BEGIN
GoldSmith Travel Consultant
Languages spoken English
Favourite destination Turks and Caicos
Favourite hotel Parrot Cay, Turks & Caicos
Areas of expertise Caribbean; UK
After studying tourism at college, Nicole worked for Kuoni for nine years, where she organised people’s dream trips all over the world – while indulging in a few herself. Feeding orangutans in Borneo was a particular highlight. A love of boutique hotels brought her into the Mr & Mrs Smith fold, and she has recently moved to London to both be nearer our Chiswick office and to experience the delight of escaping the capital at weekends to stay at her favourite rural Smith getaways.
NICKY GETHIN
GoldSmith Travel Consultant
Languages spoken English
Favourite destination South Africa
Favourite hotel Birkenhead House, Hermanus
Areas of expertise South Africa; Ireland
When Nicky finished her degree in Dublin, she travelled extensively around Australia, Fiji, India and other parts of Asia for a year. When she returned, she worked for more than two years in Europe’s first luxury members’ destination club, where she organised magnificent holidays for her clients all over the world. Her role at Mr & Mrs Smith allows her to pursue her passion for travel while putting together dream breaks for our GoldSmith members.
JULIETTE MAURY
GoldSmith Travel Consultant
Languages spoken English; French
Favourite destination South Africa; France
Favourite hotel Singita Boulders Lodge, South Africa
Areas of expertise South East Asia; Africa; Australia; France
Juliette’s life has taken her to the US, Europe, the Middle East, Southern Africa, Australia and South East Asia – so there are few better people to advise our Goldsmiths. During her travels, she stayed still long enough to help create Powder Byrne’s brochures, build up a knowledge of powder hounds’ most sybaritic retreats (helped by a love of skiing and a home in Switzerland) and work her magic at Mosimann’s private members’ club. Luckily for us, she dropped anchor in Chelsea, to share her passion for travel, fabulous hotels and luxury tailor-made itineraries with GoldSmith members.
TAMARA RYAN
GoldSmith Travel Consultant
Languages spoken English
Favourite destination Morocco
Favourite hotel Amandari, Ubud, Bali
Areas of expertise Australia; Indonesia
Tamara is the Smith Travel Team's Antipodean expert, beginning her globetrotting in true Australian rite-of-passage style – backpacking, pint-pulling and nannying her way around Europe. Catching a bad case of wanderlust en route, she returned to Melbourne determined to forge a career in travel. Her resultant experiences in the international coroprate travel market have seen her pinballing between London and Melbourne, canoeing the Zambezi, diving the Great Barrier reef and getting lost in the Marrakech souks along the way. Now, she's firmly ensconced in Mr & Mrs Smith's Melbourne office, attempting to work out how her duties might necessitate a visit to Cambodia and Laos…
ANKE WITTE
GoldSmith Travel Consultant
Languages spoken English, German
Favourite destinations Thailand; Portugal
Favourite hotel Blakes Hotel, London
Areas of expertise Germany; Indonesia; Europe
After discovering she’s no Mother Theresa (while volunteering in India), Anke quit her social work studies and embarked on a mission to improve lives in other ways – by sending her clients to the world’s most secluded and beautiful corners. After 16 years in travel, she’s maintained her passion, still habitually dipping into her favourite read, the Times World Atlas. Having spent so long looking after VIPs in her native Germany, Anke decided to send herself somewhere new for a change and arrived in London – and at Smith HQ, determined to make a few more dreams come true for our GoldSmiths.
LAURE SQUIRE
GoldSmith Assistant
Languages spoken English, basic French and basic Spanish
Favourite destinations Florence, Marrakech
Favourite hotel Amankila, Bali
Areas of expertise Guatemala, Sri Lanka, Montpellier
While studying English and Classics at university Laura made good use of the long summer breaks; she volunteered post-tsunami in Sri Lanka, went digging and planting in the Guatemalan jungle, and tested some steamy Japanese onsen. After returning to Sri Lanka to coordinate gourmet events and plan down-time for Bollywood stars, Laura found herself back in London assisting the GoldSmith team with their creative itineraries.
LAETITIA BERTHOUX
Travel Team Consultant
Languages spoken English; French
Favourite destination Ibiza; Spain
Favourite hotel The Rectory, Cotswolds
Areas of expertise Europe; Smith Ski
After graduating in performing and visual arts in her native France, Laetitia waved goodbye to the Alps and set out on a search for the perfect desert island. She settled in London’s urban jungle six years ago, and put her experience of growing up to good use as a ski-holiday advisor. She is still passionate about her travel and devotes her spare time to her ongoing quest for the perfect beach – all for the benefit of her Mr & Mrs Smith clients, of course.
SOPHIE BINGHAM
Travel Team Consultant
Languages spoken English
Favourite destination India; Thailand
Favourite hotel Haymarket, London
Area of expertise UK
Fuelling her passion for all things cultural with a six-month stint teaching English in Nepal, Sophie followed this with time in Thailand, Australia and New Zealand. She then headed to the University of the West of England, Bristol, where she worked in call centres and dished up the best pizzas in the southwest to fund trips to India and Morocco. She can now offer advice on anything travel-related – from where to buy the best bangles in India to which Thai beach is best for sun-worshipping.
SABRINA CORELLI
Travel Team Consultant
Languages spoken Italian, basic French
Favourite destinations Ibiza; New York; Miami
Favourite hotel Huvafen Fushi, Maldives
Areas of expertise UK; USA; Italy
After living in Verona for a year, during which time she got to see a lot of Northern Italy, Sabrina fulfilled a lifelong dream and went to work in New York as a conference coordinator. She made the most of being based in the USA, visiting Miami, Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, Washington among others. She is now dedicated to using the expertise accrued via her itinerant lifestyle to help Mr & Mrs Smith members choose the right hotels and destinations.
LINDSAY FABERIJ DE JONGE
Travel Team Consultant
Languages spoken English, basic Dutch
Favourite destinations New York; Edinburgh
Favourite hotels The Standard NY; Aquapura, Portugal
Areas of expertise Middle East; London; New York
Having had a slightly unusual upbringing in Bahrain, Lindsay has travelled extensively within the Middle East. Before settling into her studies at the University of the West of England, Lindsay grabbed her rucksack and set off around the world, visiting New Zealand, Japan and Egypt, to name just a few. She has come to Mr & Mrs Smith after spending the past three years selling luxury properties in Knightsbridge and Belgravia.
STEVIE GULLIFORD
Travel Team Consultant
Languages spoken English
Favourite destinations Florence; Tuscany
Favourite hotel Tuddenham Mill, Suffolk
Areas of expertise UK (shooting, fishing, riding and other country pursuits); Smith & Friends
A former booker of luxury round-the-world trips for diamond-dripping clients, Stevie developed a love of all things tweed while working as ‘country concierge’ for a small company that specialised in organising hunting, fishing and falconry breaks in the UK and Ireland for the British aristocracy. Now happily ensconced at Mr & Mrs Smith, she is coming to terms with the lack of an office butler by indulging her appetite for fabulous hotels as often as she can.
GABRIELLA HIGHAM
Travel Team Consultant
Languages spoken English and French
Favourite destinations Sydney; Côte d’Azur
Favourite hotel The Oberoi, Mauritius
Areas of expertise French Alps
Gabby caught the travelling bug in 2004 and, after returning from an adventure-packed trip to Thailand and Australia, she found it hard to stop daydreaming about faraway places. While studying Business and French at university, she was lucky enough to work on luxurious yachts on the Côte d’Azur and later experience life looking after guests in several ski resorts across the French Alps. After graduation, she moved to London where she worked as a PA for nine months before joining the Mr & Mrs Smith Travel Team. She is eager to explore all the delights that Smith has to offer.
ED LAMDIN
Travel Team Consultant
Languages Spoken English
Favourite Destinations South Africa; Greece; US
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Favourite Hotel Hazlitt's, London
Areas of Expertise South Africa; UK
Ed spent his early years in Africa, bedding down in everything from five-star bush lodges to boutique surf shacks in Cape Town. After exploring Europe and the US, he scouted for big game in the city, working as a headhunter for three years. Though handy with a rugby ball, Ed decided to follow his true passion: travel, and is now happily esconced at Mr & Mrs Smith. Ever the rolling stone, he escapes to Africa and Greece whenever he can find a boat to sail on, a lodge to lounge in, or a hip hotel to hang out in.
BECKY SALM
Travel Team Consultant
Languages spoken English
Favourite destination Santorini, Greece
Favourite hotel Hotel Signum, Salina (Aeolian Islands)
Areas of expertise North America
Growing up in the USA, Becky spent her holidays making a detailed tour of North America, from the Bahamas to Las Vegas. A University College London exchange programme that saw her visiting seven countries in seven weekends really whetted her wanderlust and, after three years spent organising weddings and events in Chicago and London, she found her spiritual home at Mr & Mrs Smith. The Great British countryside is rapidly climbing her list of travel hotspots, and a long-awaited visit to South Africa is in the pipeline…
LARA WILLES
Travel Team Consultant
Languages spoken English
Favourite destination Caribbean
Favourite hotel Charlton House, Northeast Somerset
Areas of expertise UK (the Cotswolds in particular)
If you are looking for a romantic getaway in the UK, Lara is the person to speak to. Having grown up in the beautiful surroundings of the Cotswolds, she knows the best places in which to eat Sunday lunches beside a roaring fire or where to go for the most romantic candlelit dinners for two. She has always loved travelling, and jumped at the opportunity to join Mr & Mrs Smith. Lara is now thoroughly enjoying learning about all the fantastic places and hotels that Smith has around the world, and she’s already planning a fun-packed getaway to Thailand.
JESSICA WILLIAMS
Travel Team Consultant
Languages spoken English
Favourite destinations South Africa; Australia
Favourite hotel Pershing Hall, Paris
Areas of expertise UK; Dubai
From the beaches of Bondi to the treetops of the Amazon, Jessica has an obsession with travel. She has visited every continent, while still managing to fit in a geography degree at the University of London. With a hankering for the finer things in life, Jessica rightly considers herself a guru on the global spa scene – if pampering is your passion, she's your girl.