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Niche area creams off top end of the travel market
By Jonathan Moules

The internet was supposed to have killed off the traditional high street travel agent, so Roz Webster and Sophie Hibbert’s decision to set up a business organising upmarket holidays might seem to be a highly risky venture.

They believe they have proved their critics wrong, generating more than £1m of business in their first year and a small profit. However, turnover is a vanity…..

The future 500 rising stars
"You may not have heard of them yet, but you soon will. We proudly announce Britain’s top new talents. Keep an eye on these shining stars: you’ll be seeing a whole lot more of them.
Travel and leisure: Roz Webster and Sophie Gordon".

THE HOT LIST 2006 - SECRET AGENTS
"Look out for the rise of the bespoke travel agent. These discreet consultants are the new shrinks - your own personal travel therapists, who mutter there-there's as they sort out your every holiday headache. The phenomenon began with Earth, whose A-list clients spend hundreds of thousands per year on their travels.

Fortunately, its success has spawned several imitators, including Cream Travel (+44 (0) 020 7371 0484, www.cream-travel.co.uk). More Emporio Armani than Prada, and targeted at those of us who don't command telephone number salaries, Cream promises that its services won't cost a penny more than a DIY trip, because it negotiates special rates with suppliers."

Secret Agents
They’ll organise six-day trips for six-figure sums, or fly your pet parrot to LA. Here the elite travel experts tell us what’s hot for 2008 – for free

Cream Travel
Roz Webster and Sophie Gordon set up Cream Travel three years ago. Clients include Sting and Frederick Forsyth but, although they’ve arranged six-night trips for £125,000, they insist most of their customers are ‘normal’ families.

Join the club: no membership fee.

Between you and me: ‘If you go to only one place in your life make it Egypt. Mozambique is also very trendy for 2008.’

You didn’t, did you? When a client swapped girlfriends a week before their multi-stop trip, Cream Travel persuaded all the airlines to change the name on the ticket free of charge.

50 PEOPLE TO KNOW IN TRAVEL
"Cath Urquhart, Travel Editor of The Times, reveals who you need to know isn't travel on the eve of publication of her book, The Times Holiday Handbook.

Journalists will tell you that their contacts book is their most prized possession. Certainly, when I researched my new book, The Times Holiday Handbook, I picked the brains of hundreds of my contacts in the travel industry whose insight and knowledge offer something fresh.

Here I’ve picked 50 of the most interesting of my contacts to share with you….. all have created, or achieved, something new and interesting in their specialist field, and their companies and services are ones that every traveller should know about.

It was hard to stick to 50 specialists, as there are hundreds more I could have included. But if you take advice from this bunch, you’ll start your travels off in the right direction."

Making our lives easier...
...11. CREAM TRAVEL
Eight years’ experience with luxury tour operators led Webster, 39, and her partner Sophie Gordon, 33, to set up Cream Travel in 2004. The travel agency specialises in upscale, bespoke trips, often using small specialists, and is especially strong on organising honeymoons and sourcing desirable family villas."