b'letter from the presidentDear Travelistas:Exciting times for the ID Travel Group!Our forty-first year has shown ID making great strides in our journey to being a unique name worldwide in luxury travel marketing and sales. In January 2024, we completed our merger with London-based CARIBTOURS. We are delighted to welcome the long-standing Managing Director, Paul Cleary, as a partner of the ID Travel Group and our Chief Commercial Officer. CARIBTOURS has operated a highly prized outbound luxury program from the UK and Ireland for over 40 years, with a similar ethos and range of destinations to ID.We didnt stop there! Effective October 2024, ID completed the acquisition of the award-winning Island Escapes, the premier operator out of Australasia to Fiji and the South Pacific, adding the best expertise in those markets to the ID Travel Group. We are delighted that the highly respected executives and team of Island Escapes are continuing with us. These transactions will allow us to offer our partners worldwide marketing in multipleEnglish-speaking markets, besides continuing our long-standing capabilities in South America. From the viewpoint of our advisor partners, our broader footprint gives us more buying power with our suppliers, which enables us to elevate your clients experience. More extra luxuries! In the end, while size will help, we know ID must be recognized for high-quality service and superior knowledge of our destinations, and we are determined that these will continue to be our differentiators. Our worldwide team is committed to fulfillingand exceedingyour expectations to deliver the very best luxury vacations. Adding Island Escapes with its unique position in the South Pacific is a demonstration of that. Rest assured, in all our markets, ID will continue to focus on being the best in the business, be it to beaches in Fiji, safaris in Africa (with our ID Vayeni AFRICA team Born, Bred and Based in Africa), tea plantations in Sri Lanka, ouzo on idyllic islands in Greece, along with our traditional markets of the Caribbean and Mexico always near and dear to our hearts.This year we are delighted to feature the new Grand Velas Boutique Hotel Los Cabos on our covers, a true gem offering personalized luxuries at every turn. Since the opening of the first Grand Velas property in Mexico, we have been fans, recognizing Grand Velas as the highest pinnacle of All-Inclusive resorts. Its no surprise that we are longstanding partners, they reflect the epitome of hospitality as they are continuously reinventing and elevating their five-star experience. We invite you to peruse the pages of this book, featuring our favorites. choose your next five-star experienceand contact your travel advisor today! Maurice Bonham-Carter Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chief TravelistaGrand Velas Los Cabos'