Luxury Travel & Living announces Raquel Baldelomar as the Membership and Public Relations Director for the World’s Best Hotels & Resorts™

Scottsdale, AZ – February 7, 2008 – Luxury Travel & Living announces Raquel Baldelomar as Membership and Public Relations Director for the World’s Best Hotels & Resorts™, www.worldsbesthotelsresorts.com. World’s Best Hotels & Resorts™ is part of the Luxury Travel and Living website, www.luxurytravelandliving.com, which has been online since 2003 and is now one of the world’s leading luxury travel websites according to Google organic search results.

As the definitive online resource connecting discerning travelers with the world’s best hotels and resorts, Ms. Baldelomar will represent the company to the media, luxury hotels, and the tourism community.

“We are very excited to have Ms. Baldelomar represent the brand of World’s Best Hotels & Resorts™,” says Christine Gray, Editorial Director of Luxury Travel Media, the parent company of WBHR. “As we continue to expand our reach to luxury hotels, we will be able to utilize Raquel’s skills to help us grow even further.”

The mission of the World’s Best Hotels & Resorts™ is to drive direct bookings to luxury hotels by matching the extraordinary travel experiences they offer with the unique interests of discerning travelers, from 5-star resorts and spas to trendsetting boutique hotels and country inns serving the finest food and wine to adventure lodges in the wilderness.

“As the Membership and Public Relations Director of the World’s Best Hotels & Resorts™ , Raquel will work with luxury hotels to drive direct online bookings to the hotel’s web sites, allowing them to capture 100% of online booking revenue and improve their hotel’s search engine rankings, ” states Merle Gray, Publisher of Luxury Travel Media.

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Luxury Travel and Living , www.luxurytravelandliving.com, provides the complete online experience for discerning leisure travelers including Luxury Travel Magazine, World’s Best Hotels & Resorts, Villas & Vacation Real Estate, Luxury Shopping , Travel Reservations and much more. The website received over one million visits in 2007 according to Urchin results.