John Gardner, 54, has been general manager of the Caravelle hotel ( www.caravellehotel.com) in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, for close to three years. He is a native of New Zealand.
Paul Bennett, 39, is co-founder of Context Travel ( www .contexttravel.com ), which organizes and leads educational walking tours/seminars in various cities around the world. Bennett is based in Philadelphia, Paris and Rome.
Marius Bentza, 38, is editor of www.seven times.ro , the only English-language online newspaper in the Romanian province of Transylvania. He lives in Cluj, his hometown, in Transylvania.
Ekaterina Karavaeva, 25, is co-editor and project coordinator of tak-tak-tak ( www.taktaktak.ru), a Russian social network dealing with human rights. Her hometown is Novosibirsk, in Siberia.
John Marshall, 67, is owner of Cornish Welcome Tours (www.cornishwelcometours.co.uk), which offers custom tours of that region of southwest England. He is a native of Nottingham, England, who has lived in Launceston, Cornwall, for 27 years.
Song Tu, 46, is program director of the Beijing Music Festival Arts Foundation; the festival will be Oct. 10-30 this year in the Chinese capital ( www.bmf.org.cn). He is a native of Shanghai, and a U.S. citizen who lived in Boston.
La Carmina is a 24-year-old writer who divides her time between Vancouver, British Columbia – her hometown – New York and Tokyo. Her blog (www.lacarmina.com/blog) chronicles “goth” youth culture in Japan. Her new book, “Crazy, Wacky Theme Restaurants: Tokyo” ($24.95, Mary Batty Publisher), is about bizarre places to eat in the Japanese capital.
Marin Dimow, 36, lives in his hometown of Hanover, Germany. He is the program director of Viking River Cruises, whose European headquarters are in Germany and Switzerland. Viking operates cruises on waterways in Europe, Russia, Egypt and China.
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