Travel Tastemakers Peter Gould

*THIS EPISODE WAS RECORDED PRIOR TO THE OUTBREAK OF COVID-19* Bruce Simpson's current position is CEO of Time + Tide, a collection of luxury lodges in Zambia and Madagascar. Prior to this, over a nearly 30 year career he has held a multitude of positions within Wilderness Safaris, Singita, &Beyond and North Island in the The Seychelles, starting as a guide and ending up as a CEO. Bruce's knowledge of Southern African tourism is almost unparalleled, not only has he run lodges across the bo...

Suzanne Bayly-Coupe is the owner of Classic Portfolio, a strategic marketing company that works with a collection of privately-owned lodges and camps across 14 African countries. Peter and Suzanne discuss the impact COVID-19 is having on smaller lodges and camps across Africa. Suzanne talks about the cost of conservation efforts and how hard it is for camps to sustain them without any guests. As staff at remote lodges are let go, there has been a rise in poaching, and years of conservation wo...

Peter talks to Greg Ward, who is Head of Global Sales and Distribution at AMAN about COVID-19 and it's impact. They discuss what is happening with the AMAN properties right now, and how that differs across the world. Greg offers some optimistic data that shows the domestic markets re-opening in China, Southeast Asia and the USA. He talks about how AMAN will adapt to regulations by being creative about how they use their properties and the land around them, and how they will adapt according to...

Almost all industries have been affected by COVID-19, but travel and hospitality are perhaps the worst hit. Peter sat down with Simon Jeffries, who is head of product at Carrier, to discuss this crisis. They are owned by DER Touristik, also owns Kuoni (among several others), so they are hugely influential not just in luxury travel, but across the whole sector. They talk about Carrier pre-COVID, what it looks like now, and what Simon sees it looking like in the future. Simon tells Peter that b...

*THIS EPISODE WAS RECORDED PRIOR TO THE SPREAD OF COVID-19*Peter met Calvin Cottar, whose family have run a safari camp in Africa since 1919, at TFest in Dubai. Calvin has some fascinating stories from being on the frontlines of the development of Safari's in Africa, which his family have been for generations. Their current camp is the Cottar's Safaris 1920's camp in the Maasai Mara in Kenya. Having grown up there, Calvin's understanding of the land, the laws and the customs of the area are u...