ANNE DIMON - FOUNDER/EDITOR TRAVEL TO WELLNESS
Founder and editor of Travel to Wellness is award-winning travel and spa writer Anne Dimon. A professional magazine and newspaper writer/columnist for the last 17 years she has travelled the world for a variety of publications.
In additional to being the editor of traveltowellness.com, her outlets include Metro Toronto News (one of Toronto's largest dailies); Spa Business (published in the U.K.) Spa Asia, Singapore Airlines Magazine, Meetings & Incentive Travel Magazine (for the last 15 years), Hotelier Magazine, Oxygen Magazine, Canadian Government Executive Magazine and Clean Eating, a new healthy-eating magazine launching on the stands in December of 2007. 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 for almost seven years. She also writes the annual Best Spas in Canada for Glow Magazine. She is currently working on Travel to Wellness Canada the first editorial online travel guide to Canada as a spa and wellness destination. It will launched December 2007.
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.
Dimon also has a line of fashionable travel, resort, cruise and spa wear. For more go to 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. She is also a well recognized, anti-smoking spokesperson for Ontario's Heart & Stroke Foundation, and the former media spokesperson for Ontario Blue Cross. She has recently been included in the Ontario Free-Tobacco Network for her contribution to the implementation of the Smoke-Free Ontario Act on May 31, 2006.
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