Asia-Pacific Editor
Based in Singapore, James specializes in Asian hospitality and emerging luxury destinations. His insider knowledge spans from Tokyo ryokans to Maldivian private islands. With a decade in the hospitality industry including management roles at Aman Resorts, he understands luxury from both sides of the experience. James's fluency in Mandarin, Japanese, and English gives him unique access to Asia's most exclusive properties.
Fifteen of the finest Maldives luxury resorts compared by atoll, transfer and nightly rate, plus the private sandbank dinners, manta dives and seaplane flights worth booking.
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