Richard has been Chief Executive of the Guide since 2014. He is also its owner since June 2022. He is a seasoned publishing executive, having worked in a variety of corporate management roles, including as President of Time Home Entertainment Inc, the ancillary publishing division of Time Inc. He started his career at British Airways. He is an accredited facilitator (Association of Facilitators). He holds a Bachelors degree from Oxford, and an MBA from Columbia University in New York. He lives in East Finchley with his wife and two children.

Nicola Davies has worked as a fiction editor and a commissioning editor for several publishers and also as a literary agent. In recent decades she has specialised in independent hotel guides, and enjoys the excitement of researching and discovering new places. Despite many years in publishing she still suffers from ‘imposter syndrome’ – a condition exacerbated by inspecting many hotels anonymously.

Travel editor of The Times for a decade and deputy travel editor for five years before that, Jane Knight has long lost count of the number of hotels she has stayed in. Now working as a freelance writer, editor, content strategist and consultant, she continues to delight in unearthing amazing places to stay.

She has visited hotels that were so new when she arrived that they resembled building sites and snagged rooms at Raymond Blanc’s Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons.

In a career spanning more than three decades, she has written for most UK nationals and glossies; she also edited The Sunday Times Travel Magazine.

Her recent articles can be found in The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/j/ja-je/jane-knight/ , The FT Jane Knight (ft.com) and Condé Nast Traveller https://www.cntraveler.com/contributor/jane-knight, as well as The Mail, The Guardian and The Independent. She is also responsible for travel news at The British Travel Journal (https://britishtraveljournal.com/author/jane-knight/) and contributes to online websites such as Relais & Châteaux, https://www.relaischateaux.com/us/magazine/author/jane-knight. More details of her work can be found at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jane-knight-0a459619a/?originalSubdomain=uk

Kate Quill has worked as a writer and editor on top magazines and newspapers since 1991, including many years as a staff journalist on The Times – where she was a commissioning editor on travel – and The Daily Telegraph. Her freelance writing has covered subjects ranging from travel and interior design to the art and antiques business. She lives in West London.

Rose Shepherd, who previously worked for the Good Food Guide, is an experienced magazine and travel journalist writing for amongst others, the Sunday Times magazine and the Times as well the Independent. She has written several books – most recently on Henry VIII and Sherlock Holmes’s London and is a Saga Magazine’s books editor.

Bonnie is our Online Editor, writing on behalf of the Guide and looking after our social media. Having trained as a journalist after university and worked in travel for more than 10 years, she’s travelled to some of the most beautiful hotel and spa destinations. She has also written for local and national publications as has also worked in senior management roles in content marketing and consumer publishing agencies as well as in house for leading travel companies in the UK.

Mark Hodson is responsible for online marketing strategy. He began his career as a journalist and was a travel writer for The Sunday Times for 15 years. Since 2006, he has been working with travel companies, consulting on search engine optimisation, and he runs a series of online training courses for the Association of Independent Tour Operators.

Vince Nacey has been Computer Consultant to the Good Hotel Guide for nearly ten years, working on the back-end systems that ensure invoicing, guide orders and website offers work smoothly and respond to the changing needs of the business. He has also spent the last thirty years as computer consultant to companies including JCDecaux Airport, The Central Office of Information and BBC Worldwide.

Stuart Sutch is an award winning graphic design artist with over a decade of commercial experience since he graduated with a first class BA (hons) degree in 2009. He has designed all of the most recent editions of the Guide. He has worked in a variety of industries from education and travel to music and video games.