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Phoenix International Publishing

Phoenix International Publishing is a well-established publisher of consumer travel and lifestyle publications, with offices in the USA and UK. The company can trace its roots back to 1980, and has been owned by Simon Todd since 2001. Phoenix International Publishing has evolved significantly during the last few years, and while there is still a major focus on international inbound travel to the USA and Canada from the UK and other international markets, the company also produces domestic travel and lifestyle publications in the USA and Canada.

In April 2009, the company purchased Adventure Media International, Inc., a regional publisher of custom travel planners based in Tucson, Arizona. Adventure Media International has been in existence since 1995 and well known for its quality publications. Together the two companies form the USA's foremost publisher of international travel guides.

In addition to traditional publishing, Phoenix International Publishing has developed significant online digital publishing and interactive marketing assets, working with clients on a wide range of both small and large projects including web site design and development, email creation and distribution, reader analysis and research, and even posters and marketing collateral.

Phoenix International Publishing is well known and recognized for the quality and scope of its consumer travel guides, custom publishing and interactive marketing. This is our business – our whole business, and not just a small part of a much larger multi-focused organization. As a result, we are able to give you a premium-quality product, supported by superior customer service, at a very reasonable price.

Our proven selective outsourcing structure enables us to determine the best possible partners for any job, on a cost-effective and scalable basis. Our chain of command is very short, and while we never profess to be the price leader, we often are because of our overall business efficiencies.

Most of our clients have worked with us for a considerable period of time. We enjoy successful long term partnerships, and are very proud of these relationships.

Simon Todd

Simon Todd has over twenty-five years of broad-based, worldwide executive experience, and is the president of Phoenix International Publishing and publisher of Essentially America (www.essentiallyamerica.com), the UK's leading consumer magazine about travel to the US and Canada.

Prior to his involvement with Phoenix International Publishing, Simon was a principal with The Destination Group, a private equity firm that focused on travel, leisure, lifestyle and marketing, and previously served as chairman of Accovia, Inc. (www.accovia.com), a leading travel technology provider based in Montreal, Canada.

Previously, Simon spent thirteen years with Hertz, moving through progressively more senior roles in operations, strategic planning, sales, marketing and franchising, before relocating to the United States in 1988 as the company’s youngest vice-president. From Hertz, Simon moved on to become head of Thomas Cook Travel in Europe, based in Paris, France, before moving back to the US as vice president, intermediary marketing, and then vice president, worldwide sales, for InterContinental Hotels Group (previously Holiday Inn Worldwide). From there, Simon joined Sabre Inc., where he had full responsibility for all aspects of Sabre’s Car, Hotel and Leisure (Tour, Cruise, and Travel Insurance) business on a worldwide basis, with revenues of over $150 million.

Simon was educated in England and the United States. He studied Managerial and Administrative Studies at the University of Aston in Birmingham, and earned his MBA at Oxford Brookes University. Simon also completed post-graduate studies in Finance at Harvard Business School.