Grant Jones
Grant Jones is an editor and journalist at Travel Weekly who covers travel industry news and features with a strong emphasis on aviation, cruising, loyalty programs and hospitality stories that highlight the entertainment value of travel experiences. His work sits at the intersection of trade news and narrative features, giving equal weight to commercial detail and the appeal of flying, dining, staying and attending industry events. He brings decades of multi-platform newsroom and features experience to an entertainment-focused travel beat, which shapes coverage that is both business-focused and story-led.
Aviation, Alliances and Loyalty Programs
Jones regularly reports on airline strategy and network changes, tracking how shifts in routes and capacity affect the broader travel trade.
Recent coverage includes Fiji Airways dropping its Nadi–Dallas service, where he focuses on high fuel costs and changing demand as drivers of the decision, positioning the news in terms of market dynamics rather than consumer sentiment alone. He follows major alliance developments such as Hawaiian Airlines joining oneworld and partnering with Qantas, and then extends that coverage with a separate piece outlining the benefits of the alliance from the airline’s leadership perspective, underscoring his interest in executive strategy and partnership detail.
Technology and onboard experience also feature in his aviation work, with stories on Emirates’ A380 returning to Dubai featuring world-first Starlink Wi‑Fi and Air New Zealand’s refreshed Koru loyalty program, indicating a consistent focus on how product upgrades and loyalty changes translate into value for frequent travellers and the trade selling those products. Across these airline stories, he writes in a concise, news-led format that foregrounds operational detail, commercial rationale and implications for the travel industry rather than lifestyle gloss.
Cruise, Beverage and Industry Recognition
Jones covers cruise industry developments with attention to both corporate leadership and onboard product.
His work includes a feature on Azamara’s Dondra Ritzenthaler receiving a CLIA Lifetime Achievement Award, where he elevates individual leadership and long-term contribution as a lens on the state of the cruise sector. He also reports on product innovation such as Princess Cruises’ “POURS” beverage collection, treating premium cocktails and non-alcoholic creations as part of the competitive landscape for onboard experience rather than standalone lifestyle content. Beyond cruise lines themselves, he follows industry recognition and events through pieces on National Travel Industry Awards nominations and Travel Weekly’s own Luxury Roadshow, reflecting a sustained interest in how awards, roadshows and trade gatherings shape relationships between suppliers, agents and other intermediaries. This cluster of stories shows him using entertainment-adjacent themes - bars, cocktails, award ceremonies and roadshows - as vehicles for explaining how brands position themselves within the professional travel ecosystem.
Destinations, Dining and Hospitality Narratives
Alongside news, Jones writes destination and hospitality features that treat place, food and hotel history as part of the travel industry story rather than standalone lifestyle essays. His “Glasgow revisited” piece frames the city in the context of major events like the Commonwealth Games, using that spotlight to argue for rediscovering regional Britain and weaving tourism opportunity into event-driven narrative.
He covers trade-facing dining experiences such as a Normandy-themed dinner at Restaurant Hubert, pitching colourful French history to the Sydney travel trade and tying culinary storytelling directly to supplier–agent engagement.
His hospitality coverage extends to iconic properties, exemplified by his story on the Blue Mountains resort Lilianfels entering a new era under Salter Brothers Hospitality’s Ardour brand, where he engages with heritage, refurbishment investment and brand portfolio strategy rather than purely aesthetic description. Across these features, he consistently links historical context, design upgrades, culinary programs and spa or wellness enhancements to their role in positioning a property within the luxury and premium travel segment.
The tone remains grounded in industry implications - how destinations and hotels become sellable stories for the trade - while still giving space to the entertainment and experiential qualities that make those properties stand out.
Editorial Perspective and Career Background
Jones currently serves as editor of Travel Weekly, overseeing coverage across tourism, aviation, hospitality and travel marketing in a publication aimed at the professional travel industry. His professional background spans news and features roles in TV, radio, magazines and newspapers, as well as editorial leadership in travel, food and registered clubs media, giving him a broad understanding of both consumer-facing storytelling and B2B publishing. He has worked as a food editor, chief features subeditor and travel writer at a major newspaper and has launched and edited specialist trade titles, experience that informs his ability to treat restaurants, hotels and club venues as commercial assets as much as cultural or entertainment spaces. He has also held senior producer roles in current affairs television, which contributes to a firm news sense and comfort with fast-moving, issues-based coverage in his travel industry work.
This mix of newsroom and niche trade experience underpins a style that favours clear, compact reporting, a strong focus on industry stakeholders and a consistent habit of connecting entertainment-rich experiences - fine dining, luxury hotels, cruise product and destination events - to the commercial realities of travel distribution and marketing.
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