A little about us...
whydontyou.com is the specialist-interest
division of WEXAS -
the Traveller’s Club located in central London. WEXAS
is a private members travel club with some very prestigious
honorary presidents - Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Michael Palin,
David Bellamy and John Simpson.
What is whydontyou all about?
With travel ideas to inspire enthusiasts and
adrenalin junkies whatever the age, whydontyou.com is
a mine of ideas for anyone who wants to do more than just fly and
flop. Our easy to use site will also tempt those
who indulge a passion here in the UK to try it abroad. No longer
will the UK holidaymaker be constrained by choosing solely by
destination or spending hours trawling the web to find a holiday
that matches their interest.
Holidays that give you more than just a tan...
Meet the team...
NATHAN PHILPOT
nathan.philpot@whydontyou.com
For the last 12 years Nathan has held a wide
number of senior marketing and commercial roles. This includes
experience at P&O, Eurotunnel, Kuoni and most recently,
WEXAS - the Knightsbridge based travel club.
Nathan's passion is to
visit all of the world's most iconic sights. So far he has
ticked off the Taj Mahal, Machu Picchu, the Grand Canyon,
Table Mountain, Niagra Falls, the Twin Towers (and Ground Zero
post 9/11), Rio's Corcorvado, both the Egyptian and Mayan
Pyramids, the Burj Al Arab, The Golden Temple, Mount
Fuji, the Petronas Towers and many more. He's also managed to find
time to relax on most of the world's best beaches
too.
He is a keen
cricketer and when not in the office or at the wicket
at the weekends, he
can be found travelling as a cricket spectator (or player) more
often than not in warmer climes during the UK’s gloomier winter
months. Nathan has already booked his itinerary for this winter, to
Australia, to watch England defend their Ashes title.
To avoid hearing his stories of witnessing the
fastest ball in history during the 2003 World Cup in Cape Town,
England beating the West Indies at Barbados and a rather
entertaining yarn about meeting ‘Freddie’ Flintoff when playing in
Sri Lanka, please do your best to avoid the hotel bars during any
England cricket tours – you have been warned!
KIMBERLEY BROWN
kimberley.brown@whydontyou.com
Kimberley has been involved with whydontyou
from the very start. Her role is everything and anything to do
with Search Engine Marketing - that is making sure our pages are
well ranked in Google, Yahoo etc. Over the last few months her role
has evolved to not only look after the SEM part of whydontyou.com
but also managing product and the site.
Kimberley was brought up in Chile
and being biligual has allowed her to travel up and down
Spain and South America. She has recently taken her love of
Brazil a little further and is now a keen Capoeira enthusiast,
gaining her first belt in April 2008.
Next stop for Kimberley will be training in Salvador da Bahia,
Brazil with some of the top Capoeira Masters.
ALISON KENT
alison.kent@whydontyou.com
Alison has tonnes of travel experience,
29 years in fact in the
industry, 13 years with Lunn Polly, lived in New York for two
years, then worked for a student travel company USIT, then P&O business
travel, setting up their corporate leisure business,
then Travel 2,
(always in managerial/supervisory roles) and has been at Wexas
for 4 years.
Travel experience - well where do we start!
Knows the States, South Africa and Canada really well.
In her 29 years has been
on umpteen fam trips and holidays to:
Australia, New Zealand, Eastern/ Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Europe
– Baltic states, favourite is Budapest, Caribbean,
Far East, Thailand, Singapore, India, Japan and Bali.
Basically very few places that she hasn’t been to….so always
good to ask for advice...
Has a real passion for holiday that include animal stuff, so
elephant orphanages, trekking through jungles, safaris, gorilla
tours etc….
TOBY BISHOP
toby.bishop@whydontyou.com
Toby has worked in the travel industry for
over 13 years, gaining experience in Europe and the USA. He has
extensive knowledge of European travel, including rail travel and
multi-centre tailor-made itineraries. He loves architecture,
history and exploring cities on foot, and has great knowledge of
Paris, Venice and New York in particular.
Mathew Miller
mathew.miller@whydontyou.com
Ralph Spence
ralph.spence@whydontyou.com
