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THE PULSE HOT LEADS TCS Expeditions has hired Melanie Cole (mcole@ tcs-expeditions.com) as its vice president of sales and business development, a new spot for the private jet travel operator. Cole’s goal is to grow TCS’s travel agent business by 50 percent in the next two years, primarily through new education initiatives. www.tcs-expeditions.com “The Del’s” New Delights W e grinned when we heard the news about The Hotel del Coronado’s (www.hoteldel. com/beachvillage) new Beach Village because we think venerable icons should always be thinking of ways to reinvent themselves. The Del, which sits on 28 oceanfront acres just outside of San Diego, is 120 years old, but now sports 78 new beachfront guest rooms and suites in a series of cottages and villas. The suites are a generous size: With two to three bedrooms, dining and living rooms and gourmet kitchens, we say they’re the ideal place to bring the brood for some seaside fun. What else is good? Superb Pacific Ocean views can be enjoyed from large balconies and private terraces (Hint: Be sure to ask for one with its own hot tub). Your clients in search of a true winding-down experience who may be phobic about leaving real life behind need not worry, for there’s Wi-Fi throughout. When they are truly ready to relax, they can ask their personal concierge to secure one of the Del’s master chefs to prepare a meal in their personal kitchen or to pack up a picnic basket for a day at the beach. Contact Christina Deroche, director of leisure sales, at cderoche@hoteldel.com or (619) 522-8220 to book your client’s Beach Village at the Del, which is overseen by General Manager Todd Shallan. —Ruthanne Terrero A VILLA (above) provides every comfort for the client who wants to check out from reality by day and tune into amazing Pacific sunsets at night (left). The Regent Palms in Turks and Caicos has tapped Jeff Wahl (jeff.wahl@regent experience.com) as its new director of sales. Wahl in the past was with the Westin and Sheraton at Our Lucaya Beach & Golf Resort and with Kirschner Realty International in South Florida. www.theregentexperience. com We hear that Michel Morauw, the general manager who oversaw the extreme makeover of the Park Hyatt Washington, is going west to assist in the rebranding of the Hyatt West Hollywood, which will become the Andaz West Hollywood. The Andaz is Hyatt’s luxury brand; this will mark its foray into the United States. Walter Brindell replaces Morauw in Washington, where he will also serve as area vice president for Park HyattNorth America. www.andaz.com 58 LUXURY TRAVEL ADVISOR | June 2008 http://www.tcs-expeditions.com http://www.theregentexperience.com http://www.theregentexperience.com http://www.hoteldel.com/beachvillage http://www.hoteldel.com/beachvillage http://www.andaz.com

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