THE RIGHT CONCEPT
The right ideas
The right strategy
The right story
The right delivery
sustainable approach
WE EMPOWER LUXURY™

Strategy/Linking

Development/Story

Content/ Communications

Media/Marketing

Sustainability

Content :
Production of outcome-focused high-impact content in a variety of formats, creating a narrative that defines the key features of a place, right from the start.

Communications:
A diverse range of dedicated talent, including editors, journalists, copywriters, specialist photographers, video producers, VR specialists, designers, and social media, influencer marketing and IT specialists, develop and execute ideas that earn attention and drive business impact.

Development :
Whether it be a regional project or a single hotel, from pre-purchase, through concept and design, owners and managers are assisted all the way to finished product and marketing by the world’s “crème de la crème” in all fields.

Story:
Conception and development of a powerful story-line for your destination or property, creating clear differentiation factors, enabling targeted, intelligent marketing.

Strategy :
Working from the bottom-line up, Almont Global works hand-in-hand with destination marketing organisations and hospitality players to achieve even the most ambitious goals.

Linkinng:
Connecting places and products, services and people, combining our team’s experienced thinking caps with the added wisdom and foresight of the industry’s best visionaries (our unique advisory board).

Sustainability:
We are entering a new era when sustainable travel is no longer an option; it’s essential to our future. It’s time to change the industry… and the world… for the better, to build back what has been destroyed, helping all the world’s travellers find increased levels of wellness, and assimilation with surrounding communities.

Media:
Almont Global’s unique in-house media sets the tone for the industry. Whether it be the Girlahead website or Mary Gostelow Girlahead podcast, or the “World Travel Essential” podcast, you’re always ahead of the game.

Marketing:
A national tourist board wants to penetrate a new market or sector. A developer is not sure whether to pursue a city hotel or a beach-side resort. Who would be the ideal brand or CEO, or F&B product for your hotel? How can you get global publicity for what you consider the world’s best tourist opportunity? Ask Almont Global…

What we do

We think big. We hate mediocrity. Seek breakthroughs.
Step off the path. Defy convention. See what others don’t. We give you the ideas you always wanted. We help you think for yourself.
Almont Global works worldwide in the field of development and marketing support for all players in the luxury tourism and lifestyle sectors, including (but not limited to) state and federal ministries, destination marketing organisations, hotel owners and operators, travel service providers and all peripheral luxury industries.
We only work with others who, like us, truly want to make the world a better place.

  • Analysis of development prospects - including pre-feasibility, feasibility, concept and design
  • Analysis of a client's current communication & marketing techniques
  • Assistance in the creation of communication & marketing strategy

  • Creation of customised assets (special reports and guides)
  • Creation of webinars
  • Writing of hard-hitting press releases or speeches

  • Creation of media assets
  • Texts and press releases
  • Photos
  • Videos

  • Launch concepts
  • Creation of story lines
  • Creation of media campaigns

Mary Gostelow
Yuriy Horovyy

Mary Gostelow

Yuriy Horovyy

About us

Almont Global is a “one-stop-shop” development and mar-comm support in the luxury tourism and lifestyle sectors.

The company offers support to destination marketing organisations, hotel owners and operators, tourism organisations and peripheral luxury industries. Almont Global combines the assets of three top figures in the travel industry with a network of service providers that are without equal in the industry. The expertise of the three managing partners stretches well beyond a century.

Richard Barnes

Mary Gostelow

Yuriy Horovyy

is CEO of Almont Travel – a luxury and VIP travel management company that provides bespoke services to high-level business and leisure clients worldwide. His team organises exclusive tailor-made VIP travel to the world’s most exclusive hotels and exotic destinations thanks to the fact that Almont is a proud member of the exclusive Virtuoso network, giving unparalleled access and a wealth of resources. Almont Travel offers highly bespoke luxury services to highest-level business and leisure clients worldwide.

“For several years, in my talks with owners and senior executives of hospitality companies, destination marketing organisations and receptive agents, it has become increasingly evident that there is a need for knowledgeable unbiased high-end advice and support when it comes to development, marketing and communication. By bringing Richard Barnes and Mary Gostelow, along with an extraordinary Advisory Board, into this equation, Almont Global offers a combination of talents and contacts that I believe are without equal in the industry” – Yuriy Horovyy – founder and director.

is the face behind luxury travel’s annual “Nobel”, the Gostelow Award, from International Luxury Travel Market ILTM. Since 2016, this unique accolade has also been given to such icons as Matthew Upchurch, Chairman of Virtuoso, and Valerie Wilson, of the eponymous travel advisory. Mary Gostelow is global ambassador for ILTM. She is owner-editor of the monthly Gostelow Report global luxury hospitality market intelligence briefing. She has weekly columns in HOTELS online, and on LATTE, reaching Australasian luxury advisors, and, monthly, on Travel Market Report, predominantly for the USA luxury advisory sector.

With over four decades of professional excellence, Richard Barnes stands as a distinguished figure in media, particularly within the realms of travel and tourism. His career is adorned with accolades and significant positions, including his role as a professor at the prestigious Nice School of Journalism. As the former editor-in-chief for the principal dailies at the globe's largest trade fairs, Barnes has a rich history of shaping industry narratives. His expertise has been sought in strategic consultancy roles by various global destination marketing organisations and tourism ministries. Additionally, he is the celebrated author of “What’s News? A down-to-earth guide to applied journalism,” a seminal book in the field.

Richard Barnes

Preferred Partners

girlhead
hotel tourism
latte
global wellness
global wellness
barbados
mishcon de reya
bloomberg
forbes
almont travel
monte-carlo
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