Anne Dimon - Publisher/Editor, Travel to Wellness
The publisher/editor of Traveltowellness.com including Travel To Wellness Canada (the first editorial online travel guide to Canada as a spa and wellness destination) and most recently Travel to Wellness, the print issue, is travel writer and international spa industry journalist Anne Dimon. A professional magazine and newspaper writer/columnist for the last 18 years, she has travelled the world for a variety of publications.
Publication credits include Clean Eating Magazine, Spa Business (published in the U.K.), Spa Asia, Metro Toronto News, Hotelier, Meetings & Incentive Travel Magazine and others. She was a travel columnist with the Toronto Star for close to nine years; as well as a travel columnist for the Calgary Herald and Halifax Herald. She compiled the annual Best Spas in Canada for Glow Magazine for three years and now publishes her own annual list in numerous categories at Best Spas Canada .
Dimon has also contributed to Michelin Publications and is the writer of Michelin's 2004 Must Sees of Toronto guide book. Prior to her life as a journalist, she was president of her own public relations company. In her early career, she worked in broadcasting - radio and television - both on-camera and behind the scenes.
A member of the Society of American Travel Writers (SATW), she was the 2003 recipient of the Travel Media Association of Canada's (TMAC) Professional Integrity Award presented by Starwood Hotels & Resorts, and in 2004 she received TMAC's Business Travel Award presented by Fairmont Hotels & Resorts. In a former television campaign, she was an anti-smoking spokesperson for Ontario's Heart & Stroke Foundation, and is a former media spokesperson for Ontario Blue Cross. She is included in the Ontario Free-Tobacco Network for her contribution to the implementation of the Smoke-Free Ontario Act on May 31, 2006.
Anne is also an avid runner and has completed two half-marathon including her first where she came in second in her age category.
For interviews, to pitch story ideas or receive permission to reprint any of the copyright material found on this site, please contact Anne at editor@traveltowellness.com
