Anne Dimon

Anne Dimon is the creator and editor of Travel to Wellness, the first e-magazine focused exclusively on wellness travel. A professional magazine and newspaper writer/columnist for the last 15 years, her journeys have taken her from the floor of the Grand Canyon to the top of Mount Kenya, and from swimming with stingrays off the shores of the Cayman Islands, to being rubbed in curry spices and washed down with cold yogurt in Indonesia.

Her credits include: spa columnist with the Calgary Herald and the Canwest Wire Service, regular contributor to the National Post newspaper, Meetings & Incentive Travel, Spa Living, Hotelier and Healthy Living magazines. Dimon has also contributed to Michelin Publications and is the writer of Michelin's 2004 Must Sees of Toronto guide book. For nine years, she was also a travel columnist and feature contributor to the Toronto Star.

Dimon recently launched a line of fashionable travel, resort, cruise and spa wear. For more information please visit www.arrivez.ca

A member of the Society of American Travel Writers (SATW) and the Travel Media Association of Canada (TMAC), she was the 2003 recipient of the TMAC Professional Integrity Award presented by Starwood Hotels & Resorts, and in 2004 she received TMAC's Business Travel Award presented by Fairmont Hotels & Resorts.

For more information please visit the www.traveltowellness.com

Anita Draycott

Anita Draycott has logged over two decades of travel writing over five continents. From foraging for seaweed off Vancouver island to practicing her Thai vocabulary with her female caddy in Chiang Mai, to buckling up for a canopy thrill ride high above the Costa Rican rainforest, she ll go to great lengths to introduce you to experiences and adventures beyond the beaten path.

Anita s travel articles and photography regularly appear in the The Toronto Sun, Toronto Star, Doctor s Review, SCORE Golf, Ontario Golf, Go Media, 50 Plus, MoneySense, Pure Canada and Elle Canada. She is associate editor, eastern Canada for Canadian Traveller magazine.

Most recently, she became managing editor of GolfStyle, an upscale lifestyle publication for avid golfers. To say Anita is a passionate golfer would be an understatement. This summer she was thrilled to be invited to play in the European Ladies Championship ProAm in Wales.

She is the recipient of several travel-writing awards, including the Lowell Thomas Award in 2004 for an article of golf in Thailand, Starwood Hotel s 2003 award for Best Travel Article and Best Tourism Article on Malaysia from Malaysia Tourism in 2002. This year she was awarded the Silver Medal of Honor from the French Office of Tourism for her many articles on France.

Anita was editor of City & Country Home magazine for 14 years. She also created several Special Editions for Chatelaine magazine on home décor, gardening and travel.

Anita is past vice president of TMAC (Travel Media Association of Canada) and membership chairperson for SATW (Society of American Travel Writers) and member of GWAA (Golf Writers Association of America).

Susanne Sims

Susanne Sims is a professional speaker and the author of Healing Vacations in Hawaii (Watermark Publishing) a first-ever guidebook dedicated to covering health and wellness travel options on the Island of Hawai'i. The guide shows travelers how to incorporate authentic healing and wellness experiences, education, adventure and renewal into their time in Hawaii and into their daily lives once they return home.

She is also the educational director of the New Millennium Institute, which produces retreat programs on the Big Island of Hawaii. Susanne is the founding President of the Hawaii Ecotourism Association. In conjunction with the Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau she assisted in crafting an ecotourism policy for the state.

For more information please visit, www.healingvacationsinhawaii.com