Luxury Travel Advisor - September 2007 - (Page 94) SIGHTINGS The summer saw us celebrating a bounty of events with luxury travel industry colleagues, from downtown Manhattan to London to Westhampton, NY. 3 1 2 4 1. MAX SCHROEDER, director of corporate transient sales for the Trump International Chicago Hotel, and Dianna Balabon, vice president of sales and marketing for Trump International Hotels Management, with Protravel International’s Frances Nesi-Bermudez, who booked the first reservation at Trump International Chicago, set to open in December 2. RUTHANNE TERRERO, editorial director of Luxury Travel Advisor, was a guest at an event hosted by Departures magazine and the Bombardier Flexjet fractional jet ownership program in Westhampton, NY. The confab was for Departures readers who are American Express Platinum Card® and Centurion® members to tour the new Challenger 605 and the Learjet 60 XR, making their East Coast debut. Terrero is flanked by Nathalie Bloomfield and Sylvain Levesque of Bombardier Flexjet. 3. LUXURY TRAVEL ADVISOR’S Catherine Tondelli visited recently with Cheryl Howard, director of sales at Blakes in London 4.THE CARLYLE, A ROSEWOOD HOTEL showed off its culinary expertise at a reception in downtown Manhattan. Pictured are William Rhodes, the hotel’s wine director, with his intern, Niagara University student Sam Mastrosimone, and Jimmy Sakatos, the Carlyle’s executive chef. 94 LUXURY TRAVEL ADVISOR | September 2007
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