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LUXURY TRAVEL
Luxury Gateways for the Modern Traveler
Photos Courtesy Of: © Belmond Management Limited 1995-2017
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EBy Michael Albanese
ver since the late 1800s, when George Mortimer Pullman introduced the Pullman Sleeping Car –the world’s first luxury rail excursion with separate
sleeping and dining carriage– adventurers and travelers have been enchanted by train travel. This unlikely vision of an industrial scientist inspired the Orient Express to not only launch their own version of luxury train travel in 1883 but to enhance the experience that modern travelers are still enjoying today.
Belmond, known for its iconic properties, with its classic journeys from London to Venice and Paris to Berlin, has recently created three new Grand Suites for the 2020 season. Named for epochal cities throughout Europe: Prague,
